This carries warm, moist air across the ocean to Europe from the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
This describes the land in Ancient Greece.
What is rocky, mountainous land with poor soil and few trees?
100
This is why the ancient Greeks left mainland Greece.
What was they were searching for better land and greater trade?
100
The ancient Greeks made remarkable achievements in these three areas.
What are literature, learning and architecture?
200
This sea that borders Europe to the South.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Some areas of Northern Europe have severe winters because of this.
What are cold winds that blow southward from the Arctic circle?
200
This was ancient Greece's greatest natural resource which was used mainly for these two purposes.
What was the water that surrounded Greece, which was used for fishing and trade?
200
These were three new "goods" that the ancient Greeks were able to trade for.
What are wheat, iron ore and timber?
200
This is built on one of Greece's hills, named this, in honor of the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon, which was built on the Acropolis?
300
These are three important rivers in Europe.
What are the Rhine, Volga and Danube?
300
These two geographical features (proper names) allow European countries near the Mediterranean to have warmer winters by protecting them from cold Arctic winds.
What are the Pyrenees and the Alps?
300
Mainland Greece is this kind of geographical land form.
What is a peninsula?
300
Ancient Greek city-states included these TWO things.
What is a central city called a polis and surrounding villages?
300
This person, considered one of these, studied and thought about friendship, knowledge and justice.
Who is Socrates, an ancient philosopher?
400
This is the peninsula found in Western Europe and the two countries that make up this peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula which is made up of Spain and Portugal?
400
These two factors make Europe a world leader in crop production.
What are rich soil and plentiful rainfall?
400
There are approximately this many islands that are considered to be part of Greece.
What is around 1500?
400
In this type of government a few, wealthy powerful people rule; this city-state was ruled in this way.
What is an oligarchy, which was the type of govt. in Sparta?
400
King Philip was able to conquer Greece for this reason.
What is the city-states were constantly fighting which weakened them and allow Philip to take over.
500
This is the mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
500
This is the name of the location of some of the world’s richest farmland.
What is The Great European Plain?
500
This is the largest mountain on the Greek mainland, which the ancient Greeks believed was the home to these.
What is Mt. Olympus, which was thought to be the home for the gods?
500
This city-state was centrally located on the Greek Peninsula and had a government ruled by the people, which is called this type of government.
What is Athens, which was a democracy?
500
Alexander the Great helped in spreading the Greek culture by doing this.
What is by conquering new territories as he expanded his empire?