Geography
Three seas that border Ancient Greece.
Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Greek city-state
Both
The group who had freedom in Sparta.
women
Often faced hardships due to physical geography
Farmers
WHAT IF.....you were born in Greece and you were a girl.....
baby girls were sometimes thrown away
Name the mountain in Greece where the gods and goddesses were believed to be.
Mount Olympus
Focused on military
Sparta
Zeus, Poseidon, Ares, and Hephastus are gods and goddesses. What kind of religion worships the above mentioned names?
Polytheism
Homemakers who took care of the home and children
women
WHAT IF....you were a woman who lived in Sparta....
- couldn't leave home
- sometimes trained for military
- protected the land
The term used to describe the soil/farmland of Ancient Greece.
Infertile
Language based on Phoenician Alphabet
Both
How was Ancient Greece's surplus food?
Scarce/Scarcity/Overpopulation
People who made items to be traded.
craftsmen
WHAT IF......you had no resources based on the physical geography of Greece.
You would have to expand territory by trading across the seas setting up colonies in other places.
What was a benefit of a city-state's location in terms of other city-states?
isolation, own government, etc
Focused on Art and Education
Athens
A government controlled by a few, usually a military figure.
What is an oligarchy?
government worker
WHAT IF..........you were a part of the US government....
representative democracy
Explain how physical geography affected the development of Ancient Greece.
student response
Daily Double
Which city-state created the first form of democracy? Describe it's democracy.
-Athens
-direct democracy
-people elect officials and can create laws directly
What's the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy.
Student response.
How does job specialization contribute to the development of a civilization?
student response
Explain the transition.
The Athenians would transition from a barter system to a monetary system by minting coins as an a form of currency in exchange for the items they needed.