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Ancient Greece
Kennedy Middle School
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what type of landform is Greece | peninsula |
| describe the geography of Greece | it is a peninsula with rugged mountains and thousands of islands |
| what is a City-State? | city that governs itself and its surrounding area |
| what role did mountains and the sea play in developing the concept of Greek citizenship | these geographic features isolated Greek city-states from each other and from other nations, leading Greeks to think of their communities as small, independent countries |
| what civilization was the first to settle in Crete | Minoan civilization |
| what happened to Mycenaean civilization during the Dark Age | it collapsed, people became poor, the Dorians invaded and the art of writing was lost |
| what may have caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization | earthquake and civil war |
| why did the Greeks establish colonies | they established colonies because farmers could not grow enough grain to feed the increasing population |
| who governed Greek City-States? | citizens |
| what are the requirements of being a citizen of ancient Greece | only males who had been born in the polis and owned land were citizens |
| which Greek City-State was the first to form a democracy | Athens |
| what were the ancient Greeks' most important economic activities | trade and farming |
| the______ was a time when culture and ideas diffused to the Middle East and Mediterranean Worlds after the conquests of___________. | Hellenistic Era, Alexander The Great |
| from whom did the Greeks adopt their alphabet | Phoenicians |
| what are the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks | they believed that gods and goddesses lived on Mount Olympus and acted like humans. They expressed their religious beliefs through mythology |
| the Hellenistic kings wanted what city to serve as a cultural model for all cities | Alexandria, Egypt |
| what are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals | Comedy and Tragedy |
| name the three philosophers | Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle |
| which philosopher asked questions to gain the truth and then died because of his belief | Socrates |
| which philosopher was a student of Socrates and he started the school "The Academy" | Plato |
| which philosopher wrote over 200 books with subjects ranging from poetry, art, government, law, and science | Aristotle |
| who was the father of medicine | Hippocrates |
| who was the father of history | Herodotus |
| who conquered Persia, Egypt, the Middle East , and Northern India | Alexander the Great |
| who computed the closest value to pi | Archimedes |
| who wrote Elements; book about plane geometry | Euclid |
| which Greek scientist believed that all relationships in the world could be expressed in numbers | Pythagorus |
| which Greek scientist in charge of Alexandria's library figured out that the earth was round | Erasthenes |
| who was responsible for unifying the greek city-states into a centralized government | King Phillip II |
| who was responsible for construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis; and created a democracy in Athens | Pericles |
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