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Greece is located on the Mediterranean coast of this continent's southern border.
What is Europe?
100

The Greeks relied on the sea for food because the islands were mostly made from these geographical features.

What are mountains?

100
The earliest Greeks used the sea for travel and trade because they had this tree's wood to build sturdy, solid ships.
What is the olive tree?
100
Without this bountiful resource, the Greeks would not have been able to survive, for it provided food, trade, a means of travel, and defense.
What is the sea?
100
One reason Greece was a suitable place to settle was because of it's climate, which could easily be described as this.
What is sunny?
200
The Greeks ruled the waters from the Ionian Sea to the west, and even more importantly this sea to the east.
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
This city-state's reputation as a warrior state was hard won through battles and wars, including the Peloponnesus and the Persian Wars.
What is Sparta?
200
This polis was famed as a cultural center, but wealthy because of its ship building.
What is Corinth?
200
Each city-state was built around a hill called this, that served as a public center for politics, religion, and defense.
What is an acropolis?
200
The ancient Greeks believed the Olympians, or the major gods and goddesses including Zeus, whom they believed controlled the details of their lives, lived on this real place.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
This large Mediterranean Island, located south of Greece, had a great labyrinth built in the time of the earliest Greeks, the Minoans.
What is Crete?
300
Ancient Greece was well known for it's dedication to education and leaders of thinking, known as these.

What are philosophers?

300

The Greeks successfully used these types of ships with three rows of oars in battle.

What are tiremes?

300

The Greeks used the land by growing olives, raising sheep, and doing this main form of work on land.

What is mining?

300

Ancient Greece is part of this large region in the world.

What is the Mediterranean?

400

This leader conquered the known Mediterranean World.

Who is Alexander the Great?

400
The Mycenaeans, the dominating Greeks during the Bronze Age from 1500-1200 BCE, fought this ten year war in Troy making Helen, the wife of King Menelaus, a mythical beauty.
What is The Trojan War?
400

A cavalry was an army in which the soldier fight while riding these animals.

What are horses?

400

We could go to Greece today on this, but it was not even invented 3000 years ago.

What is a plane?

400
One might describe Greece as this type of landscape.

What is the mountainous?

500

Cleopatra was the queen of this place, still important during Alexander's time.

What is Egypt?

500

This city-state was famous for being Zeus's home and hosting the Olympics every four years.

What is Olympia?

500

The spread of this type of government invented in Athens took time, but it is now what ours is.

What is a democracy?

500

Most of what we know about Greek Mythology was transferred by this  method.

What is storytelling or oral tradition?

500

This region was the largest of its time before Alexander the Great took it over.

What is Persia?