Edpuzzle Review: Greek City-States

The largest political unit in ancient Greece was the city-state--which the Greeks called a...

• province

• satrapy

• precinct

• polis

The Greeks invented the polis.

• True

• False

In English, what three words do we derive from the word "polis"?

• politics

• polite

• police

• polynomial

• polytechnic

The reason the Greek polis did not behave like the other city-states of this period in history is because of Greek's geography.

• True

• False

Compared to Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece was effectively impossible to invade as a whole country because of the terrain.

• True

• False

Which one of the following civilizations did not have to worry so much about invasion, because it was protected by deserts on three sides?

• Greek

• Mesopotamian

• Egyptian

• Roman

Which one of the following civilizations helped its leader unify the city-states of the region because of the uninterrupted plains?

• Egyptian

• Greek

• Roman

• Mesopotamian

Which one of the following civilizations was nearly impossible to unify, because each city-state was surrounded on all sides by mountains?

• Roman

• Greek

• Egyptian

• Mesopotamian

The Mycenaean kings who dominated the eastern Mediterranean reached and exceeded the level of power exercised by the Babylonian emperors and the Egyptian pharaohs.

• True

• False

The mountainous geography of Greece prevented the consolidation of a unified Greek kingdom and maintained the independence of the Greek polis.

• True

• False