Crops
What was the most widely cultivated crop?
What is wheat?
What was your favorite fact you saw?
Varies
How were fruits normally eaten? (If you were normal back then) Name at least 2 ways.
What is fruits were eaten raw, dried, preserved, or cooked?
What season were olives harvested and made into olive oil?
What is fall?
What does ha stand for in terms of land?
What is Hectare? (is the metric unit of area that equals a square with 100 m side (1 hm2) or 10,000 square meters.)
What types of food were considered legumes?
What is vegetables such as green peas, broad beans, chickpeas, and lentils? (There are more)
What did our word cereal come from?
What is the Roman goddess Ceres?
What did the supervisors do at the marketplaces?
What is they made sure that the prices and quantities were correct?
Name 3 or more food that the ancient greeks ate.
What is fruits, vegetables, nuts, meats, birds, fish, etc.?
What did our word cereal come from?
What is the Roman goddess Ceres?
When did plowing and sowing happen? (month through month)
What is October through December?
What is less than 50?
Name at least 3 foodstuff that were traded in the ancient time periods.
What is wine, olives, cereals, figs, eels, cheese, honey, pulses, and meat(Mostly from sheep and goats)
What was meat mostly used for?
What is religious sacrifices?
What was a problem that stopped the ancient greeks from planting many crops?
What is dry and hot summers? (No rainfall or only a little)
What fraction of Greece had farmable land?
What is 1/5?
What was the flat cake the ancient greeks made with barley?
What is maza?
Name at least 1 place where goods were exported to.
What is Egypt, Magna Graecia, and Asia Minor?(There are more)
Who consumed wine?
What is everyone? (Young children consumed wine daily)
What medicinal uses was cabbage used for?
What is preventing drunkenness, curing paralysis, and protecting people from the plague?
Fill in the blank:
Farms in Athens ranged in size from 5 ha from the poorer citizens to 10 ha from the m middle class/average and __ ha from the richer.
What is 20 ha?
How long have grapevines been cultivated for? (Roughly)
What is approximately 6000 years?
In the 5th century BCE, where was considered the most important trading center in the Mediterranean sea?
What is the port of Piraeus?
How would you compare bread from ancient Greece to bread today? (Ok this is kind of obvious)
What is even the finest bread back in ancient Greece was considered rough compared to bread today, in the modern times?
Why was olive oil valuable? (Think about the diet)
What is it provided fat to the diet?