Forms of Government (Classical Greece)

What word best describes the land of the Greek peninsula?

• rocky and mountainous
• flat
• desert
• rolling plains

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What type of government is run by the richest and most powerful citizens?  

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Theocracy

What is a Monarchy?

• Leaders that took control by force
• A government where one man rules. It was passed father to son
• A government where people voted on laws and government issues
• A type of butterfly

Greece is located along the

• Black Sea

• Red Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• South China Sea

One effect of rugged, mountainous geography on the civilization of ancient Greece was the development of

• absolute monarchies

• separate, independent city-states

• extensive trade with the Persians

• belief in one God

Why is Greece known as a "classical civilization of the West"?

• Russia based its alphabet on Greek
• Many of the traits of American civilization come from the Greeks
• Much of the traits of Chinese civilization come from the Greeks
• Many of the traits of Arab civilization comes from the Greeks

People in a Tyranny took power by ____________.

• inheritance

• kindness

• force

• blood

What were the two leading city-states of Greece?

• Olympus and Athens
• Sparta and Athens
• Sparta and Corinth
• Athens and Thebes

This term means "City-State," and is the most fundamental aspect of Ancient Greek culture and politics

• Metro

• Polis

• City

• State

This city-state was an oligarchy and ran as a military state

• Sparta

• Athens

• Corinth

• Bryson