Ancient Greece Test 1

Question 1

Why did Greek city-states have to set colonies up?

Answer 1

to cope with the growing population and demand for resources

Question 2

What is a city-state?

Answer 2

isolated areas that were run by the citizens of that place

Question 3

What is an acropolis and where is it located?

Answer 3

citizens could refuge when attacked; honor gods (by building temples; edge of the city

Question 4

What is an agora and where is it located?

Answer 4

a gathering place; center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city; beneath acropolis

Question 5

Who could be a citizen of a city-states?

Answer 5

only native-born Greek men who owned land and were not slaves

Question 6

What is a phalanx?

Answer 6

a technique when to go to war; rows of hoplites; marched together, shoulder to shoulder; used shields and spears to protect

Question 7

What is another term for a city-state?

Answer 7

polis

Question 8

What continent is Greece on?

Answer 8

Europe

Question 9

What is a land mass with water on 3 sides called?

Answer 9

peninsula

Question 10

How did the terrain of Greece affect the sharing of ideas of trading?

Answer 10

the land is mountainous and its hard to farm for crops

Question 11

What crops were grown?

Answer 11

people with a lot of land oats, wheat, barley; not a lot of land olives and grapes

Question 12

Neighbors & Surrounding Water

Answer 12

Today: Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy
Water: east - Aegean Sea, south - Mediterranean Sea, west - Ionian Sea

Question 13

What is the land like?

Answer 13

mountainous; peninsula

Question 14

Islands

Answer 14

lots of tiny islands (3,000)

Question 15

Animals

Answer 15

sheep and goats as they did not require a lot of land

Question 16

Terrace Farming

Answer 16

sloped plane, or stairs; effective farming

Question 17

Trade

Answer 17

traded olive oil, honey, cheese, figs, pottery, wine for wood, tools, perfume, grains

Question 18

Monarchy

Answer 18

one person or family has all the power

Question 19

Oligarchy

Answer 19

ruling power in the hands of a few people

Question 20

Tyrant

Answer 20

1 person took control by taking control.

Question 21

Democracy

Answer 21

the people share the talent

Question 22

Which city-state had the first democracy?

Answer 22

Athens

Question 23

Which city-state was most famous for their oligarchy?

Answer 23

Sparta

Question 24

What started the Trojan War?

Answer 24

Prince Paris stole Helen from Menelaus and Agamemnon saw opportunity for war

Question 25

Where does the Trojan War take place?

Answer 25

first 9 years in Troy and other neighboring countries

Question 26

Who is fighting in the Trojan War?

Answer 26

Mycenaeans and Troy

Question 27

Who is Paris?

Answer 27

most handsome prince in Troy; chosen to give the chosen apple to one of the gods

Question 28

Which goddess was chosen the fairest and said she would bring the most beautiful woman?

Answer 28

Aphrodite

Question 29

Who is the most beautiful woman?

Answer 29

Helen

Question 30

What idea was created to get through the Trojan walls? Whose idea was it?

Answer 30

Trojan Horse; the idea was from Odysseus

Question 31

How long did the Trojan War last?

Answer 31

10 years

Question 32

In what book is the Trojan War written?

Answer 32

The Iliad; Homer most famous writer

Question 33

Where did the Minoan civilization start?

Answer 33

Island of Crete

Question 34

What kind of government did the Minoans have?

Answer 34

monarchy

Question 35

What are 3 achievements of the Minoan civilization?

Answer 35

running water; frescos (art on walls); gold and silver on statues, bronze for weaponry

Question 36

What are a couple of theories of how the Minoan civilization ended?

Answer 36

earthquake on land; Mycenaeans invade

Question 37

Where did the Mycenaeans civilization start?

Answer 37

Central Asia; Peloponnesus Peninsula

Question 38

What were the Mycenaeans know for?

Answer 38

very educated, very war-like, steal inventions

Question 39

List a theory of how the Mycenaeans civilization ended.

Answer 39

earthquake; invading people and wars led to economic strain

Question 40

Where did the Dorian civilization start?

Answer 40

north then came to mainland Greece

Question 41

What was the Dark Age that the Dorians went through? How did this impact the economy?

Answer 41

lights were out, complete darkness; no written record found

Question 42

Where did the Hellenes civilization start?

Answer 42

city-state on mainland Greece

Question 43

What were the Hellenes know for?

Answer 43

alphabet (24 letters); oral stories passed

Question 44

What is a theory of how the Hellenes civilization ended?

Answer 44

inability to unify; Macedonia conquer; conflict with Persia

Question 45

What is a theory of how the Dorian civilization ended?

Answer 45

return of Hellenes; constant fighting