Ancient Greece Test Review

Because traveling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks ____________________.

• learned how to climb mountains
• took up farming
• became expert shipbuilders
• gave up trying to travel

The Greek word for city-state is ____________________

• colonies
• polis
• acropolis
• agora

The name for a fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-state.

• colony
• polis
• acropolis
• agora

The Greek ____________ provided security, stability, and identity to the people who lived there.

• colony
• agora
• polis
• acropolis

Why did separate governments develop in ancient Greece?

• The rivers allowed for more trade
• People did not like each other
• There were too many different cultures
• The geography isolated villages

Type of government in which people rule themselves

• oligarchy
• democracy
• aristocrates
• tyrant

Rich landowners were called ________________

• oligarchy
• tyrant
• aristocrates
• democrats

A leader who uses force is called a _____________.

• tyrant
• polis
• aristocrate
• president

People with the right to participate in government were called __________________ .

• aristocrats
• tyrants
• citizens
• peasants

Athenian democracy was limited because only ________ could vote in elections.

• enslaved people
• male citizens
• women
• foreigners