Geography and Settlement of Greece

Landforms

100

This landform is created when it is has seas on three sides.  What is the landform?

Peninsula

200

This landform can be seen all over Greece and is responsible for isolating the ancient city-states from each other. What is this landform?

Mountains

300

This landform is scarce in Greece. Many times it was responsible for rivalries between the city-states. What landform is it?

Plains

400

This geographic feature does not exist in a life-sustaining capacity in Greece. If it did, maybe the ancients would have settled near it. What is the missing feature?

Major River

500

The Greeks lacked flat land for farming. So, they decided to make their own. What is the name of this farming technique done to hillsides to make flat land?

Earth Steps

Seas

100

This major sea runs south of the Greek lands. Today, many different countries border it and it leads right into the Atlantic Ocean. What is this sea?

Mediterranean Sea

200

This sea is east of Greece. To sail across it means you are heading into Asia. What sea is it?

Aegean Sea

300

Better get this Greek God on your side before setting sail. His anger just might bring out a storm and send ships crashing into the shores. Which God would this be?

Poseidon

400

When traveling at sea, the Greek sailors always kept this in sight. What was it?

The coast or shoreline

500

If a merchant wanted to travel west from Greece to southern Italy and trade, what sea what need to be crossed?

Ionian Sea

Travel

100

This method of travel was most preferred by the ancient Greeks. What was this method?

By boat or on the seas

200

The ancients hated traveling on land because the mountains were difficult to cross. What effect did the mountains have on the wagons?

shattered wagon wheels

300

There was one method of travel that might get you across land a little quicker, but only one could use it at a time, and only the wealthy could afford it. What was this method?

Horseback

400

Traveling by water was faster but still difficult. Especially since it was hard to know where you were going. What helped guide the sailors?

Stars

500

Sometimes trips took a long time across land. So these were built to allow travelers to rest along the way. What were these places of rest called?

Inns

Specialization

100

This gift from Zeus must be cherished in the Greek society. Because of it's abundance, Greeks can trade for anything?

Olive Tree

200

This sweet fruit can be crushed into a drink that many will always trade for. What fruit is this?

Grapes

300

This might swallow your wagon entirely during the rainy months if you choose to travel by land, but the brilliant ancients took me from the ground then molded and fired me into beautiful art and traded me all over. What resource am I?

Clay

400

We can survive on any rocky landscape. Our short bodies and strong legs make us perfect for land of Greece. We provide many different resources like meat, milk, and wool. What are we?

Goats and Sheep

500

We fly around Greece making sure the olive trees and grapes grow year round. Without us, nothing would grow, and it would be difficult to add a sweet taste to food and drink. What were we?

Bees

Colonization

100

Thousands of these dot the seas surrounding Greece. They also make a perfect location to look for available land. What landform were these?

Islands

200

The greatest effect of colonization was the spread of what?

Greek culture

300

You want to start a colony, you better go and see this person first. If you don't, the Gods may not be on your side. Who needed to be visited first?

Oracle

400

Once settled, the main job of a colony was to help themselves and the homeland survive. What must be done to make sure survival happened?

Trade with each other

500

One thing held sacred to all Greeks must leave the homeland with colonists and be rekindled and sustained in the new lands. Without keeping it alive, Greeks may loose a connection with their homeland. What was it?

Sacred flame or fire