Greece 1

The art and practice of government is called

• governmenting

• politics

• polis

• citizen

A group of shipbuilders that settled on the island of Crete are the

• Myceneans

• Spartans

• Hittites

• Minoans

A Greek city-state is also called a

• alliance

• helot

• polis

• metic

The high hill in Athens that served as a fort and home to the Parthenon

• Acropolis

• Ziggurat

• Corinth

• Thebes

A type of government in which the wealthiest people hold the power

• oligarchy

• tyranny

• aristocracy

• democracy

A person who has the right to participate in government

• citizen

• tyrant

• oligarch

• king

A poet (possibly fictional) who composed The Illiad and The Odyssey

• Pericles

• Socrates

• Plato

• Homer

The earliest civilization in Europe was ?

• Minoans

• Mycenaen

• Trojans

• Spartans

The Minoans lived on the island of _________.

• Athens

• Crete

• Sparta

Why are the Mycenaeans often know as the "First Greeks"?

• They were the first known civilization in Greece.

• They were the first civilization thought to speak Greek.

• Archaeologists have determined that they were the first to live in Greece.