Here are the answers to the questions:
1. Mostly fertile land is not a characteristic of Greece.
2. About 2/3 of Greece is covered by mountains.
3. The term barbarian as it was originally used in the ancient world. The word came from the Greek “barbarous."
4. A megalithic structure are massive rough-cut stones used to construct monuments and tombs.
5. The term tribe refers to a social and political unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common interests, traditions, and real or mythical ties of kinship.
6. Tribes were governed by warrior kings or queens, chieftains, and tribal leaders.
- The first European barbarians to make contact with civilization were the Greeks.
- The United States would not be considered a member of “Western civilization”
- The name of the sea located west of the Greek mainland is the Ionian Sea.
- The name of the sea located east of the Greek mainland is the Aegean Sea.
- The major crops of the Aegean people were onions, wheat and beer.
- The Minoan civilization arose on the island of Crete.
- The Mycenaean civilization established settlements along the Greek mainland’s southern shore and on islands.
- The Mycenaean civilization built massive walls to protect themselves from attacks.
- The Dark Ages is a period of Greek history in which the population dropped, ships no longer sailed, and writing fell out of use.
- Following this time period, the Greeks joined the Phoenicians as the leading commercial and seafaring nation of the Mediterranean?
- In historical writing, the letter “c” might appear before a date, as in “c. 1500 BC.” That means around, about and or circa.
- By 600 BC, Greek city-states dotted the coastlines around the Mediterranean Sea. These were called colonies.
- Although they varied in size, ancient Greek city-states most closely resembled counties as a modern-day geographical feature.
- Oligarchy, which in a small group of citizens dominated, and the power of the majority was limited in various ways.
- In a democracy is where decisions were made by the majority of adult male citizens.
- A self-proclaimed dictator held power.
- Power is held by a single ruler, and is often passed along from father to son.
- Spartans used this oligarchy for their government system.
- At what age seven Spartan males begin their military training.
- The wealthiest city-state in the ancient Greek world was Athens.
- The high fortified citadel and religious center of an ancient Greek town was known as the Parthenon.
- The southern peninsula where Sparta was located is called Peloponnesus.
- Triremes were massive fighting ships with three banks of oars, used to ram or board enemy ships.
- Hoplite was a heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece.
Short answers.
1. The years the Dark Ages began and ended at about 1100 – 800 BC.
2. The titles of Homer’s stories during the Dark Ages were “The Odyssey” and “The Iliad”
- The word “Mediterranean” originally meant middle earth.
4. Aristocrats were prominent and long-established Athenian land owners.
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