SS - Greece - Test 1/14/16

Question 1

What was the name of the largest fort that the Mycenaeans built?

Answer 1

Mycenae

Question 2

Why did the Mycenaeans take over Crete?

Answer 2

To become the major traders in the eastern Mediterranean.

Question 3

Did the Mycenaeans trade peacefully?

Answer 3

No.

Question 4

What was the city that the Mycenaeans invaded?

Answer 4

The Mycenaeans invaded the city of Troy.

Question 5

What was the Dark Ages of Greece?

Answer 5

Europe moved into Greece and the Mycenaean civilization crumbled causing warfare and disorder.

Question 6

Why did the Greeks join together and form city-states?

Answer 6

The Greeks joined together to form city-states for protection and stability.

Question 7

What was a Polis?

Answer 7

Polis is the Greek word for city-state.

Question 8

Why did the Myceaean civilzation crumple?

Answer 8

Because Europe swept into Greece and at the same time there were earthquakes destroying cities.

Question 9

What is the Greek Classical Age?

Answer 9

the creation of city-states

Question 10

What is an acropolis?

Answer 10

An acropolis is a high hill.

Question 11

Did everyone who lived in the city-state live inside the city wall?

Answer 11

No, farmers lived near their fields outside the walls.

Question 12

What would the people that lived outside the walls of the city-state do in a time of war?

Answer 12

Women, children, and elderly people all gathered inside the city walls for protection.

Question 13

What was the marketplace called?

Answer 13

agora

Question 14

What other purposes did the Agora serve as?

Answer 14

The Agora served as a meeting place for political and religious assemblies.

Question 15

What became the foundation of Greek civilization?

Answer 15

city-state

Question 16

What caused the city-states to become richer?

Answer 16

Trade

Question 17

Describe the land of Greece.

Answer 17

rocky, mountaineous, lands surrounded by water

Question 18

Greece is an island or peninsula?

Answer 18

peninsula

Question 19

Is there a lot of farm land?

Answer 19

no

Question 20

Why were communities isolated from each other?

Answer 20

Travel across the mountains and seas was difficult.

Question 21

What did Greek communities see themselves as?

Answer 21

seperate countries

Question 22

What are the seas that surrounded Greece?

Answer 22

Mediterranean, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea

Question 23

Thought (What was the benefits of being by seas?)

Answer 23

food

Question 24

What did the Greeks find during their sea travels?

Answer 24

sources of food and other products

Question 25

What were the names of the two cultures that settled in Greece?

Answer 25

Minoans and Mycenaens

Question 26

Where di the Minoans build their society?

Answer 26

The island of Crete

Question 27

Was the Minoan society advanced?

Answer 27

yes

Question 28

Where did the Mycenaens build their colonies?

Answer 28

Northern Greece & Italy

Question 29

What did these two societies influence?

Answer 29

Greek society

Question 30

Minoans were the best ______ of their time.

Answer 30

Minoans were the best ship builders of their time.

Question 31

What did the Minoans trade?

Answer 31

copper, gold, silver, jewels

Question 32

What were some of the danger the Minoans faced on the island of Crete?

Answer 32

volcanos that erupted

Question 33

Why weren’t the Minoans considered to be Greek?

Answer 33

they didn’t speak the Greek language

Question 34

Who were considered to be the 1st Greek and why?

Answer 34

Mycenaeans because they were the first to speak Greek.

Question 35

Where was democracy born?

Answer 35

Athens

Question 36

What are aristocrats?

Answer 36

rich land owners

Question 37

What is oligarchy?

Answer 37

few people that have power

Question 38

Who ruled the economy in city-states?

Answer 38

in early Athens, kings ruled but then aristocrats took over

Question 39

Draco, an aristocrat, created a new set of ____ for Athens.

Answer 39

Draco, an aristocrat, created a new set of laws for Athens.

Question 40

Were the laws that Draco created fair?

Answer 40

no

Question 41

What would happen if you loitered?

Answer 41

punishable by death

Question 42

What does tyrant mean today?

Answer 42

ruler

Question 43

List what Peisistratus did good for Athens.

Answer 43

1. festivals
2. built temples
3. built monuments
4. peace & prosperity

Question 44

Where did the citizens meet to hear speeches and opinons?

Answer 44

on the hills so all could see

Question 45

Who would round up people if they didn’t come to vote?

Answer 45

slaves

Question 46

How big were juries back then?

Answer 46

anywhere from 200 to 6,000 people

Question 47

Pericles thought being a good citizen was just as important as what?

Answer 47

defending Athens in war

Question 48

Did he pay people to serve in public office?

Answer 48

yes