Greece lesson 1 - Geography and Economics

WARM-UP (page B1)1. Slipo: A city with its own traditions and its

own government and laws; City-State.

2. Narynyt: A form of government that takes power by force.

3. Shelmieln: Greek culture.

GEOGRAPHY • Mainland Greece (Hellas) is a peninsula, or land with water on 3 sides.

• Greece (Hellas) is also made up of hundreds of islands.

What is another name for Greece?

What is a peninsula?

What are the 3 seas that frame Greece?

• The Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas frame Greece (Hellas).

GEOGRAPHY • Greece is mostly made up of mountains and rocky soil.

• Poor farming conditions, but mild climate did allow some wheat, olives and grapes.

What is different about the Greek homeland from all the other civilizations we have discussed?

What food primarily made up Greek diet?

• Fishing and domesticated sheep/goats became important to Greek diet.

GEOGRAPHY • Mountains made Greece very hard to travel by land.

• Cities began to develop isolated from one another, and remained violently independent.

In what way did the Greek polis develop?

What natural resources did Greece have?

• Greece had a few natural resources. Mostly metals from the mountains: gold, silver, iron ore.

Economics • Most Greeks were fishermen, sailors for trade, or herders (sheep/goats)

• Greece produced far to little food by farming, so the Greeks had to find another way.

What were the main economic activities of the Greeks?

What major problem faced the early Greeks?

Economics • Colonization is the settling of other territories (lands) away from home.

What is colonization?

How did the Greeks solve their food problem?

• The Greek polis’ began to colonize many areas of the Mediterranean region. These colonies would farm the land, and send food back to the home polis.

Choose 5 questions• What is another name for Greece?• What are the 3 seas that frame Greece?• What is different about the Greek homeland from all

the other civilizations we have discussed?• In what way did the Greek polis develop?• What natural resources did Greece have?• What were the main economic activities of the Greeks?• What major problem faced the early Greeks?• What is colonization?• How did the Greeks solve their food problem?