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Ancient Greece section 1

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Greece is a ______________________________ because it is surrounded on three sides by _______________________________?

a)

mountains, trees

b)

sand, gravel

c)

peninsula, water

d)

seas, valleys

2.

Greece has a mainland and thousands of _________________________?

a)

islands

b)

trees

c)

goats

d)

gods

3.

Grapes, Olives, and other crops are grown on the ____________________?

a)

seas

b)

plains

c)

acropolis

d)

sidewalk

4.

Three ____________________________________, the Ionian, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, surround Greece.

a)

pools

b)

schools

c)

seas

d)

tools

5.

The Pindos _____________________________ cover much of Greece.

a)

Seas

b)

valley

c)

people

d)

Mountains

6.

On what type of landform is mainland Greece located?

a)

Flat land

b)

valley

c)

peninsula

d)

island

7.

Why were the seas important to the early Greeks?

a)

they provided drinking water

b)

they provided water for crops

c)

they provided great places to swim

d)

They provided trade routes

8.

What were the two earliest cultural groups to develop in Greece?

a)

Dorians and Hebrews

b)

Minoans and Mycenaeans

c)

Trojans and Olympians

d)

Sumerians and Athenians

9.

Around what feature was a Greek polis usually built?

a)

Mountain range

b)

fortress

c)

river

d)

temple

10.

why did the Greeks create colonies?

a)

They wanted to become rich from trade

b)

They wanted to create a large empire

c)

they wanted to conquer the entire Mediterranean region

d)

They wanted to sail to exotic places

11.

What word means a time of great achievement?

a)

acropolis

b)

classical age

c)

agora

d)

polis

12.

What word is a Greek word meaning city-state?

a)

acropolis

b)

polis

c)

classical age

d)

colonies

13.

What word means a high hill often having a fortress?

a)

acropolis

b)

polis

c)

classical age

d)

colonies

14.

What is letter H?

a)

Greece

b)

Crete

c)

Ionian Sea

d)

Mediterranean Sea

15.

What is letter A?

a)

Greece

b)

Crete

c)

Ionian Sea

d)

Aegean Sea

16.

What is letter C?

a)

Ionian Sea

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Aegean Sea

17.

What is E?

a)

Ionian Sea

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Aegean Sea

18.

What Sea would be to the West of Greece? West is the way that this arrow is point <.

a)

Ionian Sea

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Aegean Sea