Ancient Greece: Part 1

1. According to the map, what body of water is to the east of Greece?

• Ionian Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Adriatic Sea
• Aegean Sea

2. According to the map, where was Sparta located?

• Peloponnesus
• Crete
• Asia Minor
• Attica

3. The large island south of mainland Greece where the Minoans and Mycenaeans lived is ____________________

• Sparta
• Athens
• Knossos
• Crete

4. Why was communication difficult between city-states in Ancient Greece?

• They did not have telephones
• Mountains and water created isolationism
• They kept loosing WiFi
• Most people had horses

5. Since Greece was a peninsula the Greeks became expert sailors. What is an example of a resource that was plentiful?

• olives
• fish
• figs
• feta cheese

6. The government of the United States is modeled after a ancient Athenian......

• tyranny
• monarchy
• oligarchy
• democracy

7. The Greeks practiced what type of religion?

• monotheism
• judaism
• polytheism
• atheism

8. Two famous epic poems by Homer are the

• Trojan War and Odyssey
• Cyclopes and the Winged Horse
• Iliad and Odyssey
• Horse and Eagle

9. Socrates, Aristotle and Plato were well known Greek

• artists
• sculptors
• soldiers
• philosophers

10. A city with its own traditions, government, and laws was called

• city
• city-state
• country
• province