Greece: Geography, Early Greeks & Myths

Why did the Mycenaean civilization collapse?

• The Trojan War

• earthquakes & civil war

• Lack of a written language

• migration

The Greek definition of a citizen is...

• any man

• wealthy men and women

• free, native born men who owned land

• slave owners

The Greek mainland is what type of land form?

• peninsula

• delta

• river

• mountain

What physical features dominate Greece?

• deserts and plateaus

• rivers and plains

• lakes and mountains

• mountains and seas

Greece experienced a Dark Age when who invaded?

• the Dorians

• the Mionians

• the Romans

• the Mycenaeans

City-states were run by...

• citizens

• censors

• slaves

• farmers

Who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?

• Homer

• Mark Twain

• Nicholas Sparks

• Aristotle

Why were the Greeks and the Trojans at war in The Iliad?

• They were fighting over the Trojan Horse

• The Greeks sunk the Trojan trade ships

• The Trojans took Helen of Sparta

• The Trojans wanted to start a war

What is the only place that Achilles can be hurt?

• eye

• heel

• arm

• back

Whose idea was the Trojan horse?

• Paris

• Odysseus

• Homer

• Hector