Ch. 5 Ancient Greece Lesson 1

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Minoans

,

(b) Mycenaeans

,

(c) Both

• Used bronze to make weapons

• built ships

• Lived on the mainland peninsula

• Lived in the Aegean Region

• Made leather goods and clothes

• Traded to get supplies

• Were a mix of locals and people from central Asia

• Were the 1st civilization in the Aegean region

• Made statues and jewelry

• Lived on an island

The Dark ages were a time of great prosperity.

• True

• False

Who were the Dorians and what did they help the people do?

Match the following

• Hellenes

• Group that brought iron skills and weapons to the Balkan Peninsula

• Dorians

• 300 years of low food production and social interaction

• Dark Ages

• Name used by Greeks after they returned home around 750 BCE

• The Greek Alphabet

• Adopted from Phoenician traders, used at first for trade records

• Colonies

• Communities that settled on the Mediterranean coast to trade with mainland Greece

​ (a)   people born in the polis were citizens but only ​ (b)   that were ​ (c)   could vote, hold political office, and defend themselves in court.

• All free
• men
• land owners
• Only women
• slaves
• traders
• nobles
• Only royal
• women
• merchants

Foot soldiers that carried small swords, shields and spears In a battle

• Hoplites

• phalanx

• Hellenes

• Dorians

When the population grew around 700 BCE, the Hellenes needed

• more food, so they sent small groups out to become trade colonies

• more weapons, so they enslaved the Dorians to produce them

• more money, so they made coins to become rich.

• more jobs, so they went to school to learn new trades.

Select all the correct answers:

Colonies were important because

• they spread Greek culture

• they brought much needed food back to Greece

• this expanded their Greek control so they could build an empire.

• they were not important. It was just people moving away.

• it should other people the right way to live.

The are 26 letters in the Greek alphabet

• True

• False

Name 3 things that Greece traded with the colonies.

(Hint: only the items that left Greece out to other places)