Vocab
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
What are mountains?
The reason why Greek communities sometimes fought each other.
They had little access to resources (food) and good farming land.
How most Greek kings got power.
They inherited it from their fathers/male relatives.
Reasons why some tyrants were well liked.
They listened to the people and improved their lives by canceling debt and were hostile towards aristocrats.
Settlements in distant places.
What are colonies?
The three seas surrounding Greece.
What are the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Mediterranean Sea?
Two characteristics a good colony location would have.
What are flat, fertile land, good water sources, and natural harbors?
What happened to the king's advisers after kings were overthrown.
They had the most power after the king and became the oligarchs.
Reasons why some tyrants were disliked.
They had unlimited power, did not use power to help the people, and were harsh rulers by doing things like punishing people who criticized them.
The wealthy men who inherited large amounts of money and land.
Who were the aristocrats?
Describe the challenges of communicating in ancient Greece.
Mountains made communities isolated; it was difficult and dangerous to travel across land and the sea was often slow and challenging.
How colonies affected Greek culture.
Colonies allowed Greek culture to spread.
Why did the oligarchs lose power?
They passed laws that favored the rich while the poor got poorer (even selling themselves into slavery).
How democracy was different from other forms of government in ancient Greece.
The power of rule was with the people; instead of having one leader, they voted on issues.
The Greek word meaning few.
What is oligarchy?
List at least two factors that made it hard to farm in ancient Greece.
Why Greek communities relied on trade and an example of what they traded with/for.
The two groups who worked together to overthrow the oligarchs.
The poor/people and the army.
Who could vote in ancient Athens.
All free men who were citizens of Greece, over the age of 18, and not a criminal or lunatic.
The lawmaking group that met to vote on new laws or proposals.
What is an assembly?
Explain why olive oil was so abundant in ancient Greece.
It was easy to grow olives because they required little water and space and olive oil had many uses such as cooking, soap, and fuel. It did not spoil and could be traded.
Describe the Greek's relationship with the sea.
They both respected and feared it because they needed it for travel and trade, but understood how dangerous it was.
What changes the aristocrats made to the monarchy process.
They insisted kings were voted in instead of inheriting power and limited the number of years a king could rule.
How Greek democracy was different from the US's democracy.
The Greeks had a direct democracy where each man voted on each issue; the US has a representative democracy where people are voted for to then vote on most laws and issues.