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Ch. 25 Geography of Ancient Greece
1. What makes much of Greece a peninsula?
A. the lack of large rivers
B. the water on three sides
C. the steep mountain slopes
D. the large number of islands
2. How did the Greek mountains affect communication?
A. They isolated communities.
B. They promoted road building.
C. They led people to write letters.
D. They made farmers stop speaking.
3. The ancient Greeks did not like to travel on land because
they
A. did not want to offend the earth god.
B. were afraid of people from other villages.
C. used the land for farming instead of roads.
D. found traveling through the mountains difficult.
4. The ancient Greeks worshiped the sea god Poseidon. What
does this tell about the Greeks?
A. They believed in only one god.
B. They lived in separated villages.
C. They relied on the sea for travel and trade.
D. They stayed away from the sea as much as they could.
5. What made farming in ancient Greece especially difficult?
A. mud
B. rocks
C. bandits
D. climate
6. Suppose an adviser told a farmer, “You could grow more
crops by using irrigation.” What would the farmer
most likely reply?
A. Our land is too low and flat.
B. We do not have a big enough river.
C. We do not have the labor to build ditches.
D. Our engineers do not have the skill to design that.
7. What is a reason why the ancient Greeks produced so much
olive oil?
A. They could feed the olive oil to their pigs.
B. They could exchange the olive oil for nuts.
C. They could grow olive trees in a small space.
D. They could get olives from other countries in trade.
B. could drink sea water.
C. supplied oil for lamps.
D. did not eat much food.
9. Why did Greek communities sometimes fight each other?
A. They had too many soldiers.
B. They were crowded together.
C. They could not start colonies.
D. They each wanted more land.
10. What problem did ancient Greek communities try to solve
by starting colonies?
A. too many ships
B. too much timber
C. shortage of people
D. shortage of farmland
11. A good location to start an ancient Greek colony would
have had
A. tall mountains.
B. a high city wall.
C. a natural harbor.
D. strong local tribes.
12. How did colonies affect ancient Greek culture?
A. They spread the culture over a wide area.
B. They led the Greeks to adopt Asian culture.
C. They caused village cultures to develop in different ways.
D. They forced settlers to lose their culture and rights as
Greeks.
13. Why did ancient Greek communities trade?
A. to stop having to farm
B. to get goods they needed
C. to enjoy adventures at sea
D. to give families work to do
14. Which choice of titles would best fit as column headings
for the chart below?
8. The ancient Greeks raised these animals on their farms
because these animals
A. Wants and Needs
B. Farms and Villages
C. Goods and Services
D. Exports and Imports
A. did not need flat land.
15. What did Greek sailors use to help them steer their ships?
A. stars
B. charts
C. radios
D. compasses
Vocabulary
Match the definition on the left with the correct term on the right.
16. A person who lives in a colony.
17. A small community or village.
A. Colonist
18. A person who makes money by selling goods.
B. Colony
19. A settlement that is separated from other settlements by
features such as mountains or oceans.
C. Geography
D. Isolated Communities
20. A place that provides protection from weather, such as a
house.
E. Merchant
21. The physical features of an area.
AB. Settlement
22. A settlement in a distant place.
AC. Shelter
23. When creating a colony, there were 3 things the colonists looked for in their new land. Write two of those things, and then tell me
benefit that colony would provide for the Greek mainland. Your answer needs to be in complete sentences!!!! (3 points)
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