Isolated Communities
Greek farms & villages were separated, or ?, from each other by mountains and seas.
What is isolated?
Most people in ancient Greece made their living by
What is farming?
A settlement under the control of a usually distant country.
What is a colony?
The Greek city-states on the mainland traded with their colonies and ...
What is the wider Mediterranean region?
Greece is a small country in this continent.
What is Europe?
To the south of Greece is this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Some farmers built this to create more flat land for farming.
What is wide earth steps into the hills?
Many Greek communities sent people across the sea in search of new places to...
What is farm so they could ship food back home?
The Greek mainland's city-states would offer this to trade.
What are olive oil and pottery?
Greece is located on this land that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
Travel by land was especially hard. Greeks would use this to travel.
What is walking or riding in carts pulled by oxen or mules?
Crops grown that needed less land.
What are grapes and olives?
Before beginning a journey, Greeks would often begin by doing this.
What is consult an oracle to ask the Greek gods if they would be successful?
The Greek city-states wanted these goods.
What are grain, timber and metal?
Mainland Greece is mostly made up of this landform.
What are steep, rugged mountains?
What is their own food & supplies?
Olive oil was used for these purposes.
What are cooking, making soap and fuel for lamps?
The first colonies were located here.
What is Ionia or Asia Minor?
Greek sailors used this to guide them on their ships.
What are the stars?
The sea to the east of Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
Greek sailors understood the dangers of the sea when they did this.
What is navigating close to shore, sailing only during daylight and stopping at night to anchor?
These animals graze on the sides of mountains.
What are sheep & goats?
One effect of having colonies throughout the Mediterranean Sea is that...
What is spread Greek culture?
A one-way trip from the mainland could take this long.
What are two months?
The sea to the west of Greece.
What is the Ionian Sea.