Ancient Greece Study Guide Name: ________________________
Chapter 25 Geography of Greece
1. What makes Greece a peninsula?
2. Why didn’t ancient Greeks travel on land?
3. How did mountains affect communication?
4. Why didn’t Greeks use irrigation?
5. Why did Greeks worship a sea god, Poseidon?
6. What made farming in Greece difficult?
7. Why did Greeks produce a large amount of olive oil?
8. Why did ancient Greeks raise goats, chickens, sheep and bees?
9. Why did Greek communities sometimes fight each other?
10. What problem did the Greeks try to solve by starting colonies?
11. Why would colonies be started where there was a natural harbor?
12. How did colonies affect Greek culture?
13. Why did ancient Greeks trade?
14. What did Greek sailors use to navigate their ships?
15. What is important to observe about a map of ancient Greek colonies?
Chapter 26 Rise of Democracy
16. Why did Greece have many different forms of government?
17. What form of government developed first?
18. How did Greek kings come to power?
19. What happened to a king’s advisers when a king lost power?
20. Who belonged to councils of aristocrats?
21. What would an oligarch do to fill their time during the day?
22. Which English word comes from the Greek word for “few”?
23. What kinds of laws did oligarchs pass?
24. Oligarchs were thrown out of power by a partnership between whom?
25. In a Tyranny what allowed the leader to rule?
26. In what year was government by Tyranny popular in Greece?
27. Why were some tyrants well liked?
28. How was democracy in Athens different from other forms of government?
29. What idea that is important today came from ancient Athens?
Chapter 27 Conflict between Athens and Sparta
30. What is the Peloponnesus?
31. Why was Sparta isolated?
32. What was the agora of Athens?
33. Who made the governmental decisions in Sparta?
34. How did the use of iron bars for money affect Spartan trade?
35. Sparta was dependent on what type of labor for its economy?