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Unit 6 Daily Warm-up
Lesson 1 – Geography in Greece
Lesson 2 – The Rise of Hellenic Civilization
Lesson 3 – Government in Greece and Athens
Directions Read each sentence. Fill in the blank with the word from the word pair that
best completes the sentence.
1. After the Dark Age, Greeks began to set up city-states and entered a period of great
achievements known as Greece’s ___________________ age. (classical/peninsula)
2. The town around the _____________________ was surrounded by walls for
protection. (acropolis/colony)
3. The __________________ often served as a central place for Greeks to meet and
held assemblies. (acropolis/agora)
4. The mainland of Greece is a _______________, land surrounded by water on three
sides. (peninsula/polis)
5. The Greek ______________ provided security, stability, and identity to the people
who lived there. (acropolis/polis)
Directions – Write the term in your notebook, then write the description that best
matches.
6. acropolis
7. agora
8. polis
9. classical
10. peninsula
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
The Greek word for a city-state
A high hill upon which a Greek fortress was built
An age marked by great achievements
An area of land that is surrounded on three sides by water
marketplace
Lesson 4 – Sparta and Athens
Short Answer – What were three achievements of Greece’s golden age?
Fill in the Blank
1. Two of the greatest city-states in Greece were Sparta and ______________.
(Athens/Persepolis)
2. Sparta believed that ________________ was the way to provide security and
protection for their city. (collecting taxes/military power)
3. Boys in Sparta were trained to be disciplined and obedient ____________.
(heroes/soldiers)
4. Most men in Athens became ____________ or skilled craftsmen. (soldiers/farmers)
5. Unlike Sparta, Athenian ___________________ had almost no rights at all.
(men/women)
Lesson 7 – Greek Arts and Games
Fill in the Blank
1. Greek ______________ look as if they could come to life at any moment.
(drawings/statues)
2. The most impressive Greek building was the __________________ in Athens.
(Parthenon/Persepolis)
3. Greek paintings were often painted on ________________, and are admired for their
realism. (walls/vases)
4. Kallistrate and her son share 30 grapes. Kallistrate eats twice as many grapes as
her son. How many grapes does Kallistrate eat?
5. 8 shepherds are responsible for looking after 104 sheep on a Greek mountain side.
If each Shepard herded the same number of sheep, how many animals was each
Shepard responsible for?
6. There are 135 students present at Plato’s Academy. They are seated at tables and
each table seats 6 students. How many tables are needed to seat all of Plato’s
students?
Lesson 8 – The Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
1. Greece defeated two major Persian invasions in the _________________. (Battle of
Salamis/Persian Wars)
2. The ____________________ began when Sparta declared war on Athens. (citystate/Peloponnesian War)
3. While Athens had a powerful navy, Sparta had a strong _____________.
(government/army)
4. In 415 BC, both the army and navy of Athens were badly damaged when they were
defeated on the island of __________________. (Sicily/Sparta)
5. The fighting between the Greek city-states in the years after the Peloponnesian War
left Greece open to attack from ____________. (armies/outsiders)
Lesson 9 – Greek Achievements
1. Which of the Greek advances in Science do you think is the most important in the
USA today, why?
2. At the Agora a stall sells plants in flats. There are 6 plants in each tray. Each flat
has 6 trays. The merchant sold 18 flats on Saturday and 21 flats on Sunday. How
many plants did the merchant sell?
3. There are 40 drachmas in a stack on the tax collectors table. How many are there in
9 stacks of drachmas?
4. A footrace from Athens to Thebes is broken into 12 stages. Each stage is 14 ½
miles. What is the total distance of the race?
5. Lysandros of Thebes is in training for the Olympic Games. He runs 2 miles in 15
minutes. At that rate, how many miles will he run in 45 minutes?
Lesson 10 – Alexander the Great
Directions – Answer each question by writing a sentence that contains at least one word
from the word bank. Make sure that part of the questions is in your answer.
Word Bank
Alexander the Great
Persia
Macedonians
phalanx
Hellenistic
Philip II
1. How was Philip II able to defeat the Greeks?
2. What advantage did the soldiers in Philip’s army have?
3. What Macedonian leader is considered one of the greatest conquerors in history,
and why?
4. What new blended culture developed in Alexander the Great’s empire, and what did
this culture combine?
Lesson 11 – Alexander and the Hellenistic Economy
Reviewing Vocabulary, Terms and People – Write the term and then write the
description that best matches it.
Terms
classical
Hippocrates
mythology
Socrates
Alexander the Great
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
agora
peninsula
citizens
Aristotle
An area of land that is surrounded on three sides by water
Built the largest empire the world had ever seen
Greek marketplace
Taught people by asking questions
Greek stories about gods and heroes
Greatest medical scholar of ancient Greece
People who have the right to participate in government
Taught the importance of reason in his writings
Age of great achievements
10. Math Problem