Vocabulary
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100
A small community or village.
What is a settlement?
100
The kind of land that is in Greece.
What is steep and rocky?
100
The name of the sea that surrounds Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The types of crops that were grown in ancient Greece. (name 3)
What are wheat, barley, olives, grapes, fruit and nut trees?
100
The reason the ancient Greeks began to trade.
What is to get the goods and food they needed?
200
A place that provides protection from the weather, such as a house.
What is a shelter?
200
Why farming was difficult in ancient Greece.
What is steep, rocky land, high mountains, and little rain?
200
The term for a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
The farm animals raised by ancient Greeks. (name 3)
What sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, oxen, mules, and donkeys?
200
The reason Ancient Greeks did not like to travel on land.
What is travel by land was difficult?
300
A settlement in a distant place.
What is a colony?
300
Why communities were isolated in ancient Greece.
What is the geography (high, rocky mountains)?
300
Ancient Greece is this kind of landform.
What is a peninsula?
300
The term for a person believed to communicate with the gods.
What is an oracle?
300
The result of Greeks not having enough farmland to feed themselves. (2 possible answers)
What is they started colonies or had wars?
400
A person who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist?
400
Why the ancient Greeks started colonies.
What is not enough farmland to feed everyone?
400
The word for a settlement separated from others by mountains or oceans.
What is isolated?
400
The two things ancient Greeks did to prepare to start a colony.
What are consult an oracle and gather food and supplies?
400
The continent that Athens and Sparta are located on.
What is Europe?
500
A person who makes money by buying and selling goods.
What is a merchant?
500
The continent Greece is located on.
What is southern Europe?
500
The name of the peninsula that Sparta is on.
What is the Peloponnesus?
500
How geographic factors affected the lives of ancient Greeks.
What is it made the isolated communities into city-states?
500
The country where Alexander the Great started his conquests from.
What is Macedonia?