Land and Geography
What large body of water is next to Greece?
The Mediterranean Sea
What did many Greeks do for work?
Farming and shipbuilding
What is the type of government where people vote and the government is by the people?
Democracy
What big sports event today comes from Greece?
The Olympics
What do we call land that sticks out into water and is surrounded on three sides?
A peninsula
What did the Greeks build to travel and trade?
Ships
What did Greek men do in a democracy to help make rules and laws?
Vote
What did Greeks use to hold up their buildings?
Columns
What kind of land did Ancient Greece have?
Rocky and Mountainous
Why did the Greeks trade with other places?
They needed food and supplies
The United States
Name one thing the Greeks invented that we still use today?
Democracy, columns, or the Olympics
What continent is ancient Greece in?
Europe
Name one thing Greeks made or used for their jobs.
Fishing nets or ships
What kind of democracy did the Greeks have where people made laws themselves instead of having a representative?
Direct Democracy
What famous building sits on the Acropolis?
The Parthenon
Why did farmers plant on hills?
Because there wasn't much flat land
Beside's farming and fishing, what other job was important to Greece's economy?
Shipbuilding
What is the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy?
Direct democracy = the people make their laws for themselves Representative democracy = someone else makes laws for the people
What did the Greeks use to tell stories about gods and heroes?
Myths