Chapter 5, Lesson 1 The Rise of Greek Civilization

Match each item with its definition:

• agora

• a group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows
• polis

• a type of landform nearly surrounded by water

• colony

• a new settlement that keeps close ties to its homeland
• peninsula

• a market and a place where people meet and debate
• phalanx

• a Greek city-state

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

• Phoenician

• Dorian

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

Which factor or factors started the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization?

• the Trojan War

• economic collapse and lack of written language

• earthquakes and civil war

• migration

Greek city-states were run by their

• soldiers

• citizens

• politicians

• kings

Under the Greek definition of citizen, who qualified for citizenship?

• free, native-born men who owned land

• any man, whether he owned land or not

• wealthy women who owned land

• foreign-born or native-born men, who may or may not have been landowners