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quiz!!!!(Yes, it counts!!!!)

You will view the film clip “The Geography and History of Greece”

Please list at least 1 similarity and 1 difference in Greece’s geography from the River Valley Civilizations of Egypt, The Fertile Crescent, China, or India

Peninsula: a body of land surrounded by water on (3) sides

City-State: Independent communities that existed in Ancient Greece

Cultural Diffusion: the exchange of ideas through contact with other people

Climate: the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

In groups of (3)… Each student will be responsible for

reading their section to the rest of the group.

After reading, the group will answer the questions found on the reverse side of the page.

All students will complete the questions found on the worksheet

The Greeks were the first Europeans to develop their

own civilization.

(A) Ancient Greece consisted of a mountainous peninsula, the hilly coast of Asia Minor (Turkey) and many islands in the Aegean Sea.

B. Climate: 1. mild climate 2. most Greeks lived along the coastline

C. Harbors: 1. many excellent harbors 2. Athens - came to depend on trade

3. olive oil and pottery

through trade the Greeks learned a) astronomy b) mathematics c) navigation d) building techniques e) borrowed the alphabet from the

Phoenicians f) coined money from Lydia

A. isolated communities developed into independent political units

called - city-states (Polis)

B. each city-state was different 1) own government 2) laws 3) army C. most important city-states: Athens and Sparta