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Geography
Ancient Greece
Phoenicia
Trade
Greek Cities
100
8 miles of water that separate Africa from Europe.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
100
Farmers in ancient Greece were urged by the Greek poet Hesiod to plant during this time of year.
What is early fall?
100
Ancient Greeks gave this name to the people who lived on the eastern coastline if the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Phoenicians?
100
Greek traders offered this in exchange for grains and other goods.
What is olive oil?
100
A form of government where one person is the ruler.
What is a monarchy?
200
This is the world's largest inland sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
90 percent of Greece is made up of this type of land.
What are rugged mountains and hills?
200
Like Greece, Phoenicia had little of this.
What is fertile land?
200
These two important resources were used by Phoenicians for trade.
What are a snail-like sea animal called a "murex" and trees used for their cedar wood?
200
A large hill where city residents could seek shelter in times of war.
What is an acropolis?
300
This island, near present day Turkey, provided a rest stop for ships sailing between Greece and Western Asia.
What is Rhodes?
300
Historians know most about these two Greek city-states from documents and artifacts that have been preserved.
What are Athens and Sparta?
300
The Bible says that this king used cedar from Phoenicia for the doors of his temple in Jerusalem.
Who is King Solomon?
300
Phoenicians made this by processing the flesh of the murex snail.
What is purple dye?
300
A type of government where the richest and most powerful citizens control decision making.
What is an oligarchy?
400
This large land mass marks the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is The Rock of Gibraltar?
400
Historians believe Phoenicians were known as this in earlier times.
What are Philistines?
400
Greek and Phoenician sailors used these to speed their voyages?
What are Mediterranean winds and currents?
400
In this city, children began their schooling at age seven where the boys learned to be soldiers.
What is Sparta?
500
The Mediterranean Sea's northern rim is made up of many of these. It is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
The most powerful Greek gods and goddesses were believed to have lived here.
What is Mount Olympus?
500
The rise of these two empires weakened the power of Phoenicia.
What are the Assyrian and Babylonian empires?
500
These merchants controlled trade along shores of the Eastern Mediterranean from about 1200 B.C to 800 B.C.
What are the Phoenicians?
500
This poet wrote the "Odyssey." Hint: his last name is NOT Simpson.
Who is Homer?