Ancient Greece

Where was the ancient Greek civilization situated?

• The Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian Coast

• The Balkan Peninsula and parts of southern Italy

• The Iberian Peninsula

What is a polis?

• It is what the Greeks called their civilization

• An independent city-state with its own government, laws, money and army

• It is the civilization that the Greeks believed they descended from

• The home of the Hellenes

Greeks considered themselves united by:

• A common culture, language, religion and origins

• The common king who ruled over all the Greeks

• A singular Greek army

• They did not consider themselves united in any way

The Hellenes (Greeks) believed they descended from two civilizations. They are:

• The Egyptian Civilization

• The Babylonian Civilization

• The Roman Empire

• The Minoan Civilization from Crete and the Mycenaean Civilization

The Greeks were:

• polytheistic and they believed the Gods lived in their own houses

• monotheistic and they believed in one God who lived in the sky

• polytheistic and they believed the Gods lived at the top of Mount Olympus

• monotheistic, and the one God lived at the top of Mount Olympus

The acropolis was:

• A central square in the ciy

• A temple

• A walled citadel at the highest part of the city

• A bridge to the city

The form of government in Greek poleis were:

• Oligarchy in Sparta and democracy in Athens

• Tyranny in Sparta and democracy in the rest of the Greek civilization

• Democracy in Sparta and Athens, tyranny in the rest of the Greek civilization

The word 'democracy' translates to:

• The rule of a few

• The rule of a single person

• Universal equality

• The rule of the people

Which of these social classes were allowed to participate in Athenian democracy?

• Women

• Slaves and foreigners who lived in Athens

• Male children

• Male citizens of Athens over the age of 25

The process of moving to new cities and spreading Greek language and culture was known as:

• Immigration

• Migration

• Colonisation

• Cabotage