Ancient Greece -2024

What is an area of land surrounded by water on three sides?

• island

• peninsula

• isthmus

• straight

What effect did mountains have on ancient Greek city-states?

• Made it easy for the city-states to contact each other

• Made trade very simple

• Made communication difficult

• Made them warmer in the summer

What was the most important way that ancient Greeks traded with faraway places?

• By ship over the sea

• By wagon over brick roads

• By mule over the mountains

• They were not able to trade

What is an oligarchy?

• A government ruled by one supreme leader

• A government ruled by a few rich men

• A government where all the people have a vote

• A complete lack of government

Who is a single ruler of a government that often takes power by force?

• a tyrant

• a president

• a senator

• a voter

Which type of Greek government is when many people are able to vote?

• tyranny

• anarchy

• dictatorship

• democracy

True or False? In a representative democracy all people vote for every law themselves.

• True

• False

How did kings in ancient Greece get their power?

• They were put into power by the oligarchs

• They were voted in by the people

• They bought it with gold

• The inherited it from someone in their family

Who was helped most by the laws that oligarchs made?

• poor people

• rich people

• farmers

• sailors

True or false, Sparta believed in training boys for the military at a young age?

• True

• False