Class 2

Question 1

Who did the farming in ancient Greece and why?

Answer 1

Slaves because Spartan male citizens had no job other than soldiering.

Question 2

The olive was the gift of which god or goddess

Answer 2

Athena

Question 3

What did olive oil supply

Answer 3

Lamp fuel, cooking oil, food dressing, soap for water-less bathing, personal adornment or honorific.

Question 4

Grapes were used for ____.

Answer 4

Wine

Question 5

Ancient Greek Pottery was made from

Answer 5

local clay

Question 6

Ancient greek pottery was important as…

Answer 6

-Ancient world technology
-A local ancient Greek industry
-A medium for the art of painting
(crucial for study by modern archeologists)

Question 7

Early on, circa 1000–700 B.C., when Greece
was still relatively poor and humble, what could
the Greeks offer for trade to richer kingdoms?
That is, kingdoms such as Egypt, the Phoenicians of Lebanon, Urartu

Answer 7

-timber from the mountains
-high-end olive oil (shipped in clay jars)
-high-end wine (shipped in clay jars)
-ingots of silver, mined from certain Greek mountains
-slaves

Question 8

The “export economies” of certain city-states

Answer 8

Greece’s city-states got themselves into
the Mediterranean international trade, starting in the 900s
B.C.

Question 9

Athens by the 500s B.C. would…

Answer 9

achieve an export economy:
exporting a premier olive oil, also wine, perfumes, pottery, and
metalwork.