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WH Ch 5.5 Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea

Quiz by Mark Stegall

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  • Q1
    In ancient times, Greece was not a united country.
    true
    false
    True or False
    30s
  • Q2
    Minoans lived in
    Athens
    the large island of Crete
    Sparta
    Corinth
    30s
  • Q3
    Ancient Greece consisted of mainly a _________ peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea.
    rich-soiled
    forest-filled
    mountainous
    grassy
    30s
  • Q4
    Greece also included about 2,000 islands on the (_) and (_) Seas.
    Aegean and Ionia
    Black and Red
    Adriatic and Mediterranean
    Red and Mediterranean
    30s
  • Q5
    In one sense, Greeks did not live on a land but around a sea.
    true
    false
    True or False
    30s
  • Q6
    Sea travel and trade were important because
    family members were residing among other area societies
    it was the Greek's way of getting food.
    Greece lacked many important natural resources.
    it linked Greece to other societies.
    30s
  • Q7
    Ragged mountains covered about __________ of ancient Greece.
    3/4ths
    1/3rd
    1/2
    1/4th
    30s
  • Q8
    How much of Greece was arable?
    almost all of Greece
    1/4th
    1/2
    3/4ths
    30s
  • Q9
    How did the mountains affect Greeks?
    Greeks were more unified
    Greeks did not have a source of food
    Greeks were divided
    mountians protected against outside invaders
    30s
  • Q10
    Choose one of two factors directly prevented Greece from having a large population?
    not enough space
    little fresh water for irrigation
    the climate was too cold
    little fertile farmland
    30s
  • Q11
    Which of the following was not of the three environmental factors that influenced Greece?
    sea
    climate
    land
    volcanoes
    30s
  • Q12
    Some of the people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. were known as
    Athenians
    Minoans
    Spartans
    Mycenaeans.
    30s
  • Q13
    Where was the center of the Mycenaean people?
    Mycenae
    Tiryns
    Athens
    Sparta
    30s
  • Q14
    A Greek army besieged and destroyed Troy because a Trojan prince kidnapped
    Aristotle
    Hera
    Athenia
    Helen
    30s
  • Q15
    Who was the greatest Greek story teller
    Thucydides
    Homer
    Herodotus
    Euripides
    30s

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