Europe/ Greece Notes

Question 1

Some of the jobs slaves had to do were….

Answer 1

Gladiators and Copper & tin mines

Question 2

Roman and Greek beliefs

Answer 2

Greeks believed in more than one God or Goddess

Rome believed in one God (christianity, Muslim, Islam, Judaism)

Question 3

Three main physical features of Ancient Greece

Answer 3

Mediterranean (sea full of fish), marble limestone, fertile soil

Question 4

Trade in ancient Greece

Answer 4

Almonds, olives, gold, silver, iron

Question 5

Arts and leisure

Answer 5

Writings(drama,plays, poetry) architectures(temples)

Question 6

Athens Greece

Answer 6

Home of the first Olympic Games in honor for Zeus(ruled for so long) competed in running, wrestling, jumping; played in the coliseum; studied science and mathematics(liked to study philosophy “ love”)

Question 7

Athenian government

Answer 7

They came up with the word demokratia (democracy) which means “rule by the best people.” They elect the representatives and they also have trial by jury.

Question 8

Discovered how the body worked

Answer 8

Greek Galen

Question 9

Calculated the size and distance of the sun and the paths of the stars and planets across the sky

Answer 9

Ptolemy (Roman Egypt)