3.1 Rise of Greek Civilization

Greek city-states were run by their

• Soldiers

• Citizens

• Politicians

• Kings

Under the Greek definition of citizen, who qualified for citizenship?

• free, native-born men who owned land

• any man, whether he owned land or not

• wealthy men or women who owned slaves and land

• foreign-born or native born men, who may or may not have been landowners

A 300-year period of time in Greece beginning around 600 B.C. is called the Dark Age because

• Persians conquered Greece and ruled with absolute power.

• trade and farming failed, and many stopped reading and writing.

• there were natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, plagues, and famines.

• the Greek city-states fought one another so much that the economy failed completely.

The ________ civilization was the first to arise in ancient Greece.

• Phoenician

• Dorian

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

Why did the Greeks establish colonies?

• They wanted to gain resources, goods and money from the colonies.

• They wanted to learn new languages.

• They wanted to give resources, goods and money to the colonies.

• They wanted find a new route to the new world.