Ancient Greece

Greece is in which continent?

• Europe
• Africa
• North America
• Asia

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

A body of water with water on three sides is called a 

• continent
• island
• peninsula
• isthmus

Greece is a peninsula that has a southern peninsula called

• Athens
• Sparta
• Peloponnesus
• Phoenicia

The Greeks used a writing system developed by 

• Egyptians
• Phoenicians 
• Mycenaeans
• Romans

A system that of writing that uses symbols to stand for individual sounds is called an 

• alphabet
• character
• codex
• hieroglyph

The ruler of the Greek gods was called 

• Ares
• Athena
• Prometheus
• Zeus

The Greeks believed that the gods lived in

• Athens
• Cyprus
• Mount Olympus
• Mount Etna

Stories that portray Greek Gods and goddesses are called 

• essays
• fables
• histories
• myths

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The games held every four years at a festival to honor Zeus were called

• Goodwill Games
• marathons
• Olympics
• triathlons 

In Greek, the word for a city-state was 

• civitas 
• barracks 
• democracy
• polis

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A