Ancient Greece

Question 1

How did Greeks use the sea?

Answer 1

It was a highway for trade

Question 2

What was the soil like in Greece?

Answer 2

Dry and rocky. Not good for farming

Question 3

About how much of Greece’s land is usable for crops?

Answer 3

1/4 of land

Question 4

How did the mountainous geography affect the city states?

Answer 4

It isolated the city stated causing them to develop independence. Made communication difficult.

Question 5

How did the land affect their diet?

Answer 5

Limited diet to mainly grains

Question 6

What was the climate like and how did it affect them?

Answer 6

It was hot and dry which let them live and active outdoor life

Question 7

How were the winters in Greece?

Answer 7

Wet and rainy

Question 8

How did the soil effect the animals they had in Greece?

Answer 8

They could not have certain animals because they didn’t have enough food

Question 9

When was the dark age?

Answer 9

Approx. 1100 B.C.

Question 10

How did the dark age begin?

Answer 10

People called the Dorian’s invaded Greece

Question 11

What is a dark age?

Answer 11

A time when civilization undergoes a decline

Question 12

What were the Dorian’s like compared to the Mycenaeans?

Answer 12

They were culturally primitive (couldn’t write, had poor architecture, etc.)

Question 13

How did the Dorians successfully invade the Mycenaeans?

Answer 13

They attacked Mycenaeans when they were weak because they were fighting in a civil war

Question 14

What kind of weapons did the Dorian have?

Answer 14

They had iron weapons

Question 15

What is a monarchy

Answer 15

Ruled by one person. A king usually back then.

Question 16

What is an aristocracy?

Answer 16

Ruled by an elite few (developed after the dark age)

Question 17

What is a tyranny

Answer 17

Ruled by one man who takes power and is chosen by the people. Stays in power by keeping the people happy. Replaced the aristocracy.

Question 18

What is a democracy?

Answer 18

Direct rule by the people. The people got in all decisions.

Question 19

In 621 B.C.E who wrote the first unified law code?

Answer 19

Draco

Question 20

Under the Draco laws what were most of the punishments

Answer 20

Death penalty (harsh punishments)

Question 21

Who was Hammurabi?

Answer 21

King of Babylon first human to write laws

Question 22

Who instituted the reforms to draconian law in 584 B.C.E?

Answer 22

Solon

Question 23

What is the acronym to help remember to reforms?

Answer 23

Carrie
Let
Elephants
Stomp
Run
And
Mope

Question 24

Who was Hippias

Answer 24

Son of pisistrus

Question 25

What was the purpose of the odyssey and the Iliad in Greek culture?

Answer 25

To entertain and educate people about what was expected of them

Question 26

What is a dark age?

Answer 26

A major interruption of culture and learning caused by catastrophic damage to peace and stability

Question 27

Who did the Mycenaean Greeks fight in tb Trojan war?

Answer 27

The Trojans of Asia Minor

Question 28

What was the heroic ideal?

Answer 28

The thought of Arete

Question 29

Who had a warlike culture that was ruled by upper class that used bronze weapons?

Answer 29

Mycenaeans

Question 30

Who lived in Peloponnesus?

Answer 30

Mycenaeans

Question 31

What weapons did the Dorian’s have?

Answer 31

Iron

Question 32

Who lived on Cyprus?

Answer 32

None of them

Question 33

Who ushered in the dark ages?

Answer 33

The Dorian’s

Question 34

Who was the first to use the corbel arch?

Answer 34

Mycenaeans