Ancient Greece & the City States

Greece was surrounded by which bodies of water?

• Ionian

• Adriatic

• Aegean

• Mediterranean

In the Polis, Women and child citizens enjoyed the same rights as men.

• True

• False

The Greeks believed 12 of their gods/goddesses lived on top of this mountain...

• The Pindus Mountains

• Mt. Olympus

• The Zagros Mountains

• Mt. Vesuvius

Every Polis had a __________, which was located at the top of a hill and used as a religious center & a place of refuge.

• Olympic Stadium

• Agora

• Acropolis

• Phalanx

The Greeks used this battle formation locking shields together to create a wall.

• Testudo

• Hoplite

• Pincer

• Phalanx

The Agora was used as both a market and a place for people to assemble.

• True

• False

Which of the following were incentives for the Greeks to leave their homelands and create colonies? (Select 2)

• Desire for Better farmland

• Desire to find monsters from their myths

• Desire to plunder their neighbors

• Desire for growth in trade

Aristotle argued that citizens of the polis belonged to the state and not just to themselves.

• True

• False

Pisistratus, who seized power from the Athenian Aristocrats to rule for himself, is an example of this form of government.

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Monarchy

The War-Like City of Sparta was located in this region of Greece.

• Peloponnesus

• Attica

• Macedonia

• Ionia