Ancient Greece Chapter 10 Review/Test

Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

• Aesop

• Homer

A type of government in which the people rule themselves...

• polis

• democracy

A person who has the right to participate in government...

• citizen

• mythology

A Greek storyteller famous for writing fables

• Aesop

• Alexander the Great

A polis is the Greek word for city-state

• true

• false

Stories about gods and heroes to explain how the world works.

• mythology

• fables

The first people to speak the Greek language.

• Minoans

• Mycenaeans

The geography affected the Ancient Greek's lives because...

• they depended on the seas for food and trade

• they could grow mostly grapes and olives

• the seas and mountains divided them

• all of the above

Because traveling by land was difficult, the Greeks...

• became expert shipbuilders

• gave up trying to travel

What were the 2 earliest civilizations to develop in Greece?

• Trojans and Olympians

• Minoans and Mycenaeans