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Ancient Greece Web Review
Click on Geography
Read the green section on crops, products and trade.
1. What were their major crops?
2. What did they make out of these crops?
3. What was the terrain or land of Greece like?
Read the purple section “connection between physical features and political
development”.
1. “Greece was divided by many _________________.
2. Where did many Greeks live?
3. What did the sea do?
4. Explain how the land led to city-states?
Click on Athens
Read the passage.
1. Who had the Parthenon built and in what year was this done?
2. Does everyone in Athens live inside the city walls?
Click on “2”
3. What happened in 510 B.C.?
4. What does Demokratia mean?
5. Were women allowed to be citizens?
Click on “3”
6. How did people vote on juries?
Click on “4”
7. What could women not do?
8. What could women do?
Click on “5”
9. What percentage of the population were slaves?
Click on “6”
10. Athens had yearly _____________, _____________ and
____________________.
11. Who paid for these?
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “4 Types of Gov.”.
Note: If link doesn’t work, type in the search box on that page in the upper right
hand corner, “4 types of government in ancient Greece”
Click on “BBC-Schools-Ancient Greece Corinth”.
Read the passage
1. What are the four types of government?
2. Which of the four do we have in the United States?
3. Which would you least like to live under?
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Democracy”
Note: If link puts you at a page that says it has been moved, type in the search box
“Democracy for kids”.
Then scroll down to “Greek Government –history for kids!” and click on it.
1. What does Democracy mean?
2. Who could vote in MOST Greek city-states?
3. Why was it inconvenient for some men to vote?
4. How did you get to be on the Council of 500?
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Athens and Sparta”.
Read the passage on Athens and Sparta and make a Venn diagram comparing and
contrasting the two city-states.
Stop reading at the end of Athens.
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Aesop’s fables”
Read “The Lion and the Mouse” fable by Aesop.
1. What is the moral of the story?
2. Why do you think the Greeks liked to use fables to teach lessons?
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Mythology”
1. Explain the evolution of myths in two sentences.
2. Who was Homer?
3. Where did the most powerful Greek gods live?
4. Describe these gods.
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Mythology 2”
1. Click on Zeus (he is seated in thrown above the rest of the gods).
Read the passage
1. How did Zeus become leader of the gods?
Scroll down to Apollo
Read the passage
1. Explain Apollo’s roll in the battle of Troy.
Spend a couple of minutes reading the stories of your favorite gods, but don’t
spend ALL day here!
Go back to the Greece homepage and click on “Olympics”
Click on Begin
Click on “Enter Olympia”
Play the game without clicking on quit until you get to the last question. If you
can’t find the answer push quit.