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1. Greece is located on the continent of ____________.2. What body of water is to the south of Greece?3. Greece is surrounded by water on 3 sides. What is this type of land called?4. What kind of land was in the middle of Greece? (Physical Characteristics)5. What kind of land was along the coast?6. What grew well in the mountains?7. What kind of jobs did people have? (Human Characteristics)8. What was the climate like in ancient Greece?9. How did people in the mountains travel?10. How did people along the coast travel?11. What is a direct democracy?12. Who could be part of the government in ancient Greece?13. What are the three types of columns on Greek buildings? (see pictures in your notebooks!)14. What were large communities called?15. What was one of the largest city-states in ancient Greece? (It is the capital of Greece now.)1. Europe2. Mediterranean Sea3. Peninsula4. Mountains; dry rocky soil5. Fertile soil, good for farming6. Olives and grapes and goats7. Traders, shipbuilders, & farmers8. Hot and dry in the summer, warm and rainy in the winter9. They did not travel very far, but lived in isolated communities10. Mostly by ships or smaller boats11. A government where people vote directly for the laws12. Citizens - Men over the age of 20 who were born in Athens13. Doric - plain Ionic – a little fancier (curled edges) Corinthian – very fancy, flowery14. City-States15. Athens16. What was the acropolis?17. What was the market called?18. Why was the Parthenon built?19. Where is the Parthenon? (city & location in the city)20. Who did the Olympics honor?21. What is ancient?22. What is a contribution?23. What are some contributions the ancient Greeks gave to the modern world? (Think about things we still use today.)16. It was a fort on a hill; it was also the place where the temples were located17. agora18. It honored Athena (goddess of wisdom) and it celebrated war victories19. It is in Athens on the Acropolis (“high city”)20. Zeus, the king of the gods21. Very, very old. (Think hundreds or thousands of years old, not your parents or grandparents!!)22. A contribution is the act of giving or doing something.Architecture- columns (lots of buildings use these columns, like CCE, Monticello, and many government buildings in Washington, D.C.)Olympics – we still have them today!Democracy - Athenians were the 1st government to have a type of democracy. Parts of our government are based on the ancient Greek government!Words – we have many words that all or part of them come from Greek, like Chorus, Orchestra, Gymnasium, and GeometryTheater – Greeks wrote the first comedies and tragedies (plays) for the theater. We still read some of them today!ANCIENT GREECE STUDY GUIDE ................
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