Ancient Greece

Greece is surrounded by 3 sides of water therefore it is considered a ​ (a)  

• Peninsula

• Island

• Mountain

• Plateau

Life in the city often focused on the marketplace, or _______ in Greek. Farmers brought their crops to the market to trade for goods made by craftsmen in the town.

Around 500 BC a new leader named ____________gained power in Athens. He was able to overthrow the aristocracy once and for all. In its place, he established a completely new form of government. Under his leadership, Athens developed the world’s first democracy. For this reason, he is sometimes called the father of democracy.

• Cleisthenes

• Buddha

• Hammurabi

• Moses

The Greeks created constitutions in which laws were written. A constitution is a set of beliefs and laws that are used to govern a state, nation, or organization.

• True

• False

Spartan society was dominated by the ​ (a)   . Healthy boys were trained from an early age to be ​ (b)   For Spartan soldiers— ​ (c)   and ​ (d)   were more important than one’s own safety. Soldiers between the ages of 20 and 30 lived in army barracks and only occasionally visited their families. Spartan men stayed in the army until they turned​ (e)  

• military

• soldiers.

• courage

• strength

• 60.

• Navy

• Pacifists

• weakness

• fear

• 75

Government that is made up of a small group of people from the highest social class in a society is called a?

• Theocracy

• Plutocracy

• Democracy

• Aristocracy

A type of government in which people rule themselves by directly voting is called?

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Republic

• Democracy

Greece is surrounded by 3 sides of water. On the east is the ​ (a)   On the west is the ​ (b)   and in the South is the ​ ​ ​ (c)  

• Aegean Sea

• Black Sea

• Red Sea

• IonianSea

• Nile Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• Caspian Sea

The Minoans were a successful civilization due to ​being the best ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   with other city-states. Sometime in the 1600s BC a huge volcano erupted just north of Crete. This eruption created a giant ​ (c)   that flooded much of Crete. In addition, the eruption threw up huge clouds of ​ (d)   , ruining crops and burying cities. This eruption may have led to the end of Minoan civilization.

• Shipbuilders

• trading

• Wave

• Ash

• Blacksmiths

• conquered

• drought

• Fog

By the mid-1400s, Minoan society had declined. That decline allowed the ​ (a)   to take over Crete and become the major ​ (b)   in the eastern Mediterranean. Mycenaean society began to fall apart in the 1200s BC when ​ (c)   from Europe swept into Greece. At the same time, ​ (d)   destroyed many cities.

• Mycenaeans

• traders

• invaders

• earthquakes

• Trojans

• allies

• Monsoons