Geography & Trade
Greece had lots of ______, which made land travel difficult.
What are mountains?
Around 1100 BCE, the ______ civilization collapsed.
What are the Mycenaeans?
The Minoans lived on the island of ______.
What is Crete?
Athens developed a government called ______.
What is democracy?
The most common job for Greek men, especially inland, was ______.
What is farming?
Because land travel was hard, Greeks used the ______ for travel and trade.
What is the sea (Aegean/Ionian/Mediterranean)?
After the collapse, historians call the period the Greek ______ Age.
What is the Dark Age?
Minoans became skilled sailors and built a strong ______.
What is a navy?
In Athens, male citizens could participate in making laws and ______ on decisions.
What is vote (voting)?
Women’s daily lives were usually centered around the ______.
What is the home/household?
Greece had limited farmland because the soil was ______ and terrain was mountainous.
What is rocky?
During the Dark Age, writing disappeared and knowledge was passed down through ______.
What is oral storytelling (storytelling)?
A famous Minoan palace city was ______.
What is Knossos?
Sparta’s military training system that began at age 7 was called the ______.
What is the agoge?
In coastal city-states, many people worked as craftsmen or ______ who traveled by ship.
What are traders?
Greeks traded goods like olive oil and pottery to get ______ and raw materials they couldn’t produce enough of.
What is grain?
Around 800 BCE, Greeks adopted a writing system based on the ______ alphabet.
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
The Mycenaeans built cities on ______ and protected them with thick stone walls.
What are hilltops?
Sparta was controlled by two ______ and a council of elders.
What are kings?
Enslaved people had no freedom or ______, but their labor supported the economy.
What are rights?
Geography helped create independent communities called ______ that governed themselves.
What are city-states?
Define a polis in one sentence.
What is an independent city-state (city + surrounding farmland + people) with its own government, laws, army, and traditions?
Which civilization is more connected to warfare/fortifications, and which is more connected to sea trade/palaces?
What are Mycenaeans = warfare/fortified and Minoans = sea trade/palaces?
Explain how values shaped each city-state’s identity (1 for Athens, 1 for Sparta).
What is Athens = education/culture/debate/civic participation and Sparta = discipline/strength/loyalty/military readiness?
Give two ways daily life differed by geography (inland vs coastal).
What is inland = agriculture/farming focus and coastal = trade/shipbuilding/travel?