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Vocab
Colonies
Farming
Travel
Trade
100
A person who lives in a colony
What is a colonist?
100
The Greeks established colonies because they did not have enough of this.
What is farmland?
100
No major rivers run through Greece, and it only rains in winter, so this is scarce.
What is water?
100
The reason that Greek communities were isolated from one another.
What is the high mountains?
100
How the Greeks acquired goods they needed.
What is trade?
200
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is a merchant?
200
Colonists would ask this person to talk to the Greek gods and ask for their help.
What is an oracle?
200
This important fruit grown by the Greeks produced oil for cooking, fuel for lamps, and soap.
What are olives?
200
The reasons why travel by land was difficult in ancient Greece.
What is unpaved dirt roads, high mountains, had to carry your own food?
200
The Greeks would trade olive oil, pottery, and wine for these. (name 2)
What is grain, timber, metal?
300
A place that provides protection from weather, such as a house.
What is shelter?
300
The Greeks established colonies during this period of time. (*hint: from 1000 to 650 B.C.E. - how many years is that?*)
What is over 300 years?
300
Greek farmers built these into the hills to create more flat land for planting.
What are wide earth steps (terraces)?
300
The safest and easiest way to travel in ancient Greece.
What is by boat?
300
These people made money buying and selling goods .
What is a mercahnt?
400
A small community or village.
What is a settlement?
400
The first Greek colonies were here.
What is in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey)?
400
These crops were grown by Greek farmers because they didn't need much land. (name 2)
What are: olives, grapes, fruit trees, and nuts?
400
The ancient Greeks treated this with great respect, and made sacrifices to the god Poseidon to protect them.
What is the sea?
400
Navigating ships was difficult because the Greeks only had these to guide them at night.
What are the stars?
500
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
The body of water that surrounds most of Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
These animals were raised by Greek farmers. (name 2)
What are sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens?
500
These criminals would often attack unwary travelers.
What are bandits?
500
Ships travelled slowly because they were only powered by oars and these.
What are large rectangular sails?