Ancient Greece

How did physical geography help the Greeks in warfare?

• Mountainous Greece had little land for farming, so Greeks looked to the sea for resources.

• A polis was a city-state of Ancient Greece.

• Greece's territory was very mountainous, making Greek cities hard to attack.

• In Greece, an aristocratic government was one in which a few noble families held power.

How did the sea affect the development of ancient Greek civilization?

• Because Greeks relied on the sea, they became skilled seafarers and navigators. This led them to explore and colonize other places.

• Greece’s territory was very mountainous, making Greek cities hard to attack.

• The Minoans lived on the island of Crete from about 2700 to 1500 BCE.

• Citizenship gave many people responsibility for governing.

What was a polis?

What types of work did enslaved people do in ancient Athens?

• In Athens, every male citizen was allowed to participate in the assembly and directly vote on laws and other issues.

• Women had almost no rights and could not own property or participate in debates in the assembly

• Athenian boys learned logic, reading, writing, arithmetic, music, and poetry reading and received military training and physical education.

• Enslaved people did most of the labor-intensive jobs in ancient Athens.

How did education in Sparta differ from education in Athens?

• In Athens, boys were taught military training.

• In Sparta, boys were taught to be well rounded individuals.

• In Athens, boys were taught to be well rounded individuals. In Sparta, boys were taught military training.

• Boys were taught the same things in Athens and Sparta.

​ ​ What type of government did ancient Sparta have?

• aristocracy

  (ruled by an upper class)

• tyranny

  (individual tyrant holds power)

• democracy

  (citizens held power)

• oligarchy

  (ruled by a small group)

How did Athens’s physical geography help its troops during the Persian Wars

• The Minoans lived on the island of Crete from about 2700 to 1500 BCE.

• Because Greeks relied on the sea, they became skilled seafarers and navigators. This led them to explore and colonize other places.

• Its military was more familiar with the waterways of the surrounding area than the Persians were.

• Greece’s territory was very mountainous, making Greek cities hard to attack.

Why did Athens and Sparta go to war in 431 BCE?

• Sparta’s navy cut off Athens from its grain supplies.

• Sparta thought that Athens was becoming too powerful and disliked Athenian attempts to spread democracy to other city-states.

• The Spartans made the Athenians tear down the walls around their city, forbade Athens from having a navy, and ended Athenian democracy.

• Without access to grain, Athens was forced to surrender.

What was the purpose of the Parthenon?

• It was a place where citizens could talk about trade and government.

• It was a temple built to honor the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena.

• It was a building ONLY for trade.

• It was a place where citizens went to pray to the Gods.

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