Lesson Quiz 5-1: The Ancient Greeks

DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item with its definition.

• a place where people meet and debate

• phalanx

• group of soldiers arranged in rows

• polis

• a Greek city-state

• agora

• a type of landform

• colony

• new settlement w/close ties to homeland

• peninsula

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

• Phoenician

• Dorian

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

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

1. What was the highest mountain in Greece. Supposed to be the home of the Greek gods.

• Mt. Olympus

• Mt. Rushmore

• Mt. Mitchell

• Mt. Everest