5.1 Quiz

As the Dark Ages ended, land-owning nobles overthrew the kings of Greece.

• True

• False

Because of the rugged landscape, each city-state was like a small independent country.

• True

• False

Mountains and seas brought the Greek city-states together.

• True

• False

Citizens of city-states put the needs of the city-states above their own.

• True

• False

A citizen's strong loyalty to his city-state enabled the Greeks to unify.

• True

• False

The lack of unity among Greek city-states made Greece easier to conquer.

• True

• False

Match the sentence with the word.

• helped

• Greeks began to make coins from ____.

• trade

• increased with the development of colonies

• metal

• Colonies ____ Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean area.

• colonies

• Settlements in a new territory that have close ties to their homeland

• spread

• Trade was ____ by the development of coinage

Match the following

• economic

• Outside the acropolis was an open area called _______.

• colony

• a body of land with water on three sides

• agora

• a settlement in a new territory that has close ties to its homeland

• Peninsula

• An important _____ activity was trade.

• polis

• A city-state; like an independent country

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

Greek city-states were run by their ____.