Geography of Ancient Greece

Question 1

What had an enormous impact on the ancient Greek civilization?

Answer 1

Geography

Question 2

What did the geography of Ancient Greece lead to?

Answer 2

It led to the development of individual communities, rather than one country.

Question 3

Greece did not become a country until

Answer 3

In moderns times in the 1800s.

Question 4

When was the geography of ancient Greece divided into three regions?

Answer 4

Thousands of years ago

Question 5

What are the 3 regions of Ancient Greece?

Answer 5

the coastline

the lowlands

the mountains

Question 6

Name the 3 seas of Ancient Greece

Answer 6

3. Aegean Sea
4. Ionian Sea
5. Mediterranean Sea.

Question 7

How many city-states was Ancient Greece made up of?

Answer 7

Hundreds

Question 8

Where were the hundreds of city-states grouped together?

Answer 8

at the southern end of a very large peninsula that jutted out into the Mediterranean Sea

Question 9

What is a peninsula?

Answer 9

A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

Question 10

What stuck out from the main Greek peninsula?

Answer 10

Smaller peninsulas

Question 11

What formed a great deal of natural coastline and many natural harbors?

Answer 11

The smaller peninsulas that stuck out from the main Greek peninsula.

Question 12

There were hundreds of small islands nearby in the _________ and _________ seas.

Answer 12

Ionian and Aegean Seas

Question 13

The people of ancient Greece took advantage of all this saltwater and coastline and became outstanding

Answer 13

fishermen and sailors

Question 14

There was some farmland for crops, but the Greeks could always count on _____________ and ____________ to eat.

Answer 14

seafood and waterfowl

Question 15

Why couldn’t rivers be counted on for transportation?

Answer 15

because the rivers dried up in the summer and overflowed in the winter

Question 16

Transportation and food relied very heavily on ________.

Answer 16

The sea

Question 17

Summers were

Answer 17

hot and dry

Question 18

Winters were

Answer 18

mild and windy

Question 19

How much of the land on the Greek peninsula could be farmed?

Answer 19

20%

Question 20

The ancient Greek farmers grew crops that would

Answer 20

survive in this environment

Question 21

What crops were grown in Ancient Greece?

Answer 21

wheat

barley

olives

grape

Question 22

What provided shrubs to feed herds of cattle and sheep?

Answer 22

the many hills and mountains

Question 23

What did the early Greeks also depended heavily upon?

Answer 23

trade and imports with other regions around the Mediterranean

Question 24

What’s one reason the early Greeks tried to set up colonies in North Africa and in Asia?

Answer 24

They wanted to control the import of grains and other foods.

Question 25

Greek mountains are big enough to provide two important things. What are they?

Answer 25

1. a source of fresh water
2. a system of natural defense barriers

Question 26

What made land travel very difficult?

Answer 26

The mountains

Question 27

What contributed to the formation of independent city-states?

Answer 27

The mountains

Question 28

Why were not many roads built?

Answer 28

because they would have to avoid the mountains and follow the long, meandering coastline

Question 29

Each city-state in ancient Greece was its own _______, with its own _____________ and its own way of _________________.

Answer 29

unit, government, doing things