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greece vocab

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

grown because they did not require much water

a)

oilgarchy

b)

olives, wheat, grapes

c)

polytheism

d)

sparta

2.

small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

a)

Oligracy

b)

democracy

c)

Athens

d)

Oligarchy

3.

Home of greek gods

a)

Sparta

b)

Mt. Olympus

c)

Greece

d)

Athens

4.

A body of water by Mediterranean Sea that touches the borders of Greece & Asia Minor. It also has many islands in it, including Crete

a)

Mediterranean Sea

b)

Islands

c)

Aegean Sea

d)

Ionian Sea

5.

Spartan Slave

a)

Helot

b)

Women

c)

Slaves

d)

Halot

6.

Allowed food and trade

a)

Horses

b)

Carts

c)

Seas

d)

City-States

7.

Formed because of the isolationt that was a result of the mountainous land; had own goverment; laws and way of life

a)

Sparta And Athens

b)

City-States

c)

Cities

d)

Hellenism

8.

Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great

a)

Democracy

b)

Polytheism

c)

Climate

d)

Hellenism

9.

Impacted the food they grew, the clothes they wore, and activities they participated in.

a)

Democracy

b)

Climate

c)

isthmus

d)

Acropolis

10.

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas

a)

Mediterrean Sea

b)

isthmus

c)

Persian gulf

d)

Ionian Sea

11.

Sea to the WEST of Greece

a)

Mediterrian Sea

b)

Ionian Sea

12.

Stories about gods and heros that try to explian how the world works

a)

Mythology

b)

Monotheistic

c)

Polytheistic

d)

Polis

13.

The continent on which Greece is found

a)

Sparta

b)

Athens

c)

Asia

d)

Europe

14.

A peice of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

a)

States

b)

Islands

c)

Peninsula

d)

Mountians

15.

the capital and largest city-state of Greece

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

16.

A large peninsula in southeastern Europe countaining the Balkan Mountian Range

a)

Balkan Peninsula

b)

Blkan Peinsula

c)

Baalkan Peininsula

17.

the land of Greece is made up of almost 80% of this

a)

Mountains

b)

Water

c)

Land

d)

Grass

18.

Belief in many gods (You should know this by now)

a)

Polytheistic

b)

Monotheistic

c)

Christian

d)

prayer

19.

A city-state in ancient Greece on the peninsula of peloponnesus

a)

Sparta

b)

Athens

c)

Babylon

d)

Sumer

20.

A city-state in greece

a)

Babylon

b)

Athens

c)

Sparta

d)

Polis

21.

Spiritual places where people went to seek advice from the gods about the future

a)

Polis

b)

Mt. Olympis

c)

Oracles

d)

Acropolis

22.

since there was little, the Greeks had to trade for the foods they wanted

a)

Seas

b)

Water

c)

Farmland

d)

mountains

23.

People living in athena who were not athenian citizens, who could work and who paid taxes but were not allowed to own land or take part in goverment

a)

Metics

b)

merchants

24.

the investagtion of truths and principles using human reasom

a)

Arcopolis

b)

Democracy

c)

philosophy

25.

The large sea at the bottom of the Greece peninsula

a)

Inonan sea

b)

Crete

c)

Mediterranean Sea

d)

Tigris River

26.

The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean

a)

Crete

b)

Athens

c)

Sparta

d)

Greece

27.

A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city

a)

Acropolis

b)

Polis

c)

Mt. Olympis

28.

Goverment by the people

a)

Democracy

b)

Monotheistic

c)

Polytheistic

d)

City-states