Mrs. L ch. 8 l. 1-2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is a peninsula? | Is a body of land nearly surrounded by water. |
What is a harbor? | Is a sheltered placealong a coast where boats safely dock. |
What is the Mediterranean Sea? | Is where the ancient Greeks developed a civilization. |
What is Crete? | Is the biggest island that lies south of Greece. |
What is Rhodes? | Is an island that lies east of Crete and near what is Turkey now days. |
What is Attica? | Is a wedge-shaped peninsula that juts into the Mediterranean Sea. |
What is Peloponnesus? | Is a large peninsula that lies southwest of Attica. It is Shaped like a giant hand. |
What is Phoenicia? | Is where Greek merchants competed with traderss which is today Known as Lebanon. |
What is a polis? | Is the Greek word for a city-state. |
What is Acropolis? | Is a hill in ancient Athens that became a religious place and a meeting place. |
What is an agora? | Is used as a marketplace and asa meeting place in Greek cities. |
What is a citizen? | In ancient Greece were only men. |
What is an oligarchy? | Is a type of government that a small group of the richest most powerful citizens control the decision making. |
What is a monarchy? | Is a type of government that is ruled by one ruler or king. |
What is democracy? | Is when large groups of citizens take part in desicion making for the polis. |
What is a colony? (in Greece) | Is a group of people who live apart from Greece. |
Who was Homer? | Is a person who wrote many stories of poetry that described stories of Greece's past. He is an epic poet. |
What is Athens? | Is a city-stae (polis)in Attica that hade a oligarchy government. |
What is Sparta? | Is the largest city-state (polis) in Greece that is in Peloponnesus. |
What is Mount Olympus? | Is were ancient Greeks believed that many gods and goddesses lived and ruled. |
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