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WorksheetsEarly Ancient Greece
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 3hrs 35mins
A high hill upon which a Greek fortress was built was called the Acropolis
True
False
A type of government in which people rule themselves by directly voting is called?
Monarchy
Theocracy
Republic
Democracy
In ancient Greece, the name for an independent city-state was the_______?
Monarchy
Polis
Villa
Confederation
A government in which only one person has power is called a Oligarchy
True
False
The ancient Greeks used stories about heroes and gods that explained how the world works. It was called__________?
Science Fiction
Mythology
Wizardy
Sorcery
Mainland Greece is a _______, or body of land with water on three sides.
city-state
polis
peninsula
agora
What is democracy?
ruled by majority
ruled by a few
ruled by one
ruled by no one
The Greeks were:
polytheistic (believed in many gods)
monotheistic (believed in one god)
This is the highest hill in a Greek city-state.
Acropolis
Peninsula
Bunker Hill
Mt. Olympus
peninsula
polis
parthenon
kingdom
Government in which people rule themselves
theocracy
oligarchy
communist
democracy
A piece of land nearly entirely surrounded by water
peninsula
island
city-state
country
Form of government ruled by one all-powerful person, usually a king or a queen
Tyranny
Democracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Greeks made their living through ___.
Trade
Herding
Farming
Hunting
What would have made travel over the land difficult in Greece.?
Mountains
Few Roads
Pirates
Stopping to take Cornell Notes!
People believed that the Minoan civilization ended because of __ (Check ALL that apply).
Tsunami
Volcanic Eruption
Conquered be Dorians.
Earthquake
The Minoan civilization developed on the island of __.
Chios
Rhodos
Nexos
Crete
By 1200 B.C.E. the Mycenaeans may have been conquered by the ___.
Minoans
Hittites
Sea Peoples
Dorians
Name of the Mycenaean hero during the Trojan War
Achilles
Odysseus
Hector
Hercules
long narrative poem that tells about legendary or heroic deeds
epic
fable
myth
Who was the greatest epic writer of ancient Greece?
Aesop
Homer
Herodotus
Why did the Trojan War start?
Because King Priam was jealous of Agamemnon
Because Odysseus loved to fight
Because Prince Paris stole Helen from Menelaus
Because the Greeks insulted the Trojans
Who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Shrek
Homer
Kayne
Odysseus
