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- The document is an Ancient Greece study guide that provides information about Greek geography, way of life, early civilizations, mythology, democracy, important figures, and events for a student to learn. - It includes topics such as Greece's lack of major rivers, mountainous terrain, coastal living, gods like Zeus and Olympus, philosophers Plato and Aristotle, the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, and Alexander the Great's conquests. - The student is instructed to know details about Greek mythology, democracy, and to be able to identify locations on a map of Greece.

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Ancient Greece Study Guide-Answers

- The document is an Ancient Greece study guide that provides information about Greek geography, way of life, early civilizations, mythology, democracy, important figures, and events for a student to learn. - It includes topics such as Greece's lack of major rivers, mountainous terrain, coastal living, gods like Zeus and Olympus, philosophers Plato and Aristotle, the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, and Alexander the Great's conquests. - The student is instructed to know details about Greek mythology, democracy, and to be able to identify locations on a map of Greece.

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Ancient Greece Study Guide

Name: ______________________________________________

Know the following information for the Exam over Ancient Greece:
Map Labeling: Study the map we filled out together at the beginning
Geography:
-Map Labeling: Study the map we filled out together at the beginning

-How is Greece different than other units we have studied so far?


**No Major River
-What does Greece depend on? What does that mean?

**The Sea. It is extremely important to their way of life.

-Where do most people live? Why?

**Coastal Regions. Good land for farming, expert sailors.

-What separates the regions of Greece, making it hard to travel?

**Mountains

-What type of climate does Greece have?

**Pleasant

-What is the way of life for Greece?

**Outdoor way of life.

-What are the names of the first two ancient Greece civilizations?

**Minoan and Mycenea

Greek Mythology
-Be able to list five Greek Gods or Goddesses

**See Greek Mythology PowerPoint


-Be able to summarize the story of Zeus

**See Greek Mythology PowerPoint…”The War”

-Where did the gods and goddesses live?

**Mt. Olympus

-Know 3 creatures from Greek mythology

**See Greek Mythology PowerPoint

-What is a myth?

**Made up story to explain something

-Why did Greeks believe in gods and goddesses?

**To explain why things happen

-How did the Greeks honor the gods and goddesses?

**Olympic Games

-What is the Trojan War?

**Mythical story about a war between the greeks and Trojans. Wooden horse

sent to trick the Trojans. Fighting over Helen of Sparta.

Democracy
-What is Democracy?

**Government ruled by the people

-What city-state had the best example of Democracy?

**Athens

-What is the problem with Democracy as the population grows?

**Too hard for everybody to gather to vote. Need representatives.


-What was life centered around in Sparta?

**Military

People of Greece/Events
-Who was Homer?

**Blind Poet

-Who was Pericles?

**Leader of Athens

-Who was Alexander the Great?

**Leader of Macedonia. Took control of Greece after the Peloponnesian War

-Who were the three famous Greek Philosophers?

**Plato, Socrates, Aristotle

-What did the Greek Philosophers try to do?

**Explain why things happen in nature.

-Who fought each other in the Peloponnesian War?

**Sparta Vs. Athens

-Why did Athens surrender in the Peloponnesian War?

**Plague broke out, killing Pericles.

-Who fought each other in the Persian War?

**Sparta/Athens Vs. Persia

Miscellaneous

-Know the story of Athena’s birth


**Zeus swallowed Metis, then developed a huge headache. Hephesatus

cracked open Zeus’s skull and Athena emerged, fully grown and in full armor.

-Know what the MAIN (ones listed on the Greek Mythology Guided Notes)
gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece are and what they are the god/goddess
of.
**See Greek Mythology PowerPoint

-Know the Titans and what they were.


**See Greek Mythology PowerPoint

-How often were the Olympics held?


**Every four years

-What was the FIRST event of the Olympics?


**Running

-Why were the Olympics held?


**To Honor Zeus

-What were the winners of the Olympics given instead of a medal?


**crown of Olive Branches

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