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Ancient Greece 1.Why were grapes and the sea so important to the Greeks? Wine made from grapes was traded by sea 2. Map skills a map on page 196 Which the settlements were the farthest from Greece Heraclea, Pontica, Cyrene 3. Economic effect of Greek Geography
 * Page 196**
 * Cause || Effect ||
 * Not much land for growing crops || Greeks traded for what they need ||
 * Abundant sunshine || Grew olives and grapes ||
 * Not enough space for cities || Greeks established colonies ||


 * Page 197**:

4. What role did Geography play in the growth of ancient Greek civilization? As Greece is a peninsula, it developed a maritime culture. Its climate was good for growing grapes, which it used for trade. It had little land for farming, so the Greeks established colonies

5. How did the sea help create wealth for the early Greeks? By providing opportunities for trade 6.. If Greece had been a country of flat, fertile land, far from the sea, how might life have been different fo the Greeks? It would not have developed a maritime culture and would have had less motivation for trade 7. Apart from material goods like wheat and timber, what else might traders have brought back to Greece from abroad? What effect would this have had? Handcrafted goods, which might have given them new ideas about tools materials and arts

8. Greek Culture
 * Cultural element || Example ||
 * Beliefs || Human like gods and goddesses ||
 * Rituals || Olympic games ||
 * Art and building || Parthenon ||
 * Science and math || Scientific practice of medicine ||


 * 9
 * Source of belief || Mythology ||
 * Where god lived || Mount Olympus ||
 * Form gods took || Human ||
 * Places of worship || Temples and shrines ||
 * How they worshipped || Offerings and festivals ||

Greek myths explained the natural world
 * 1) 10 How did beliefs and rituals help ancient Greeks understand their world?

11. Legacy of Greek culture The Parthenon
 * 12
 * What was it || Temple ||
 * Why was it built || Honor gods and show power ||
 * Who ordered it built || Pericles, Athenian ruler ||
 * Who supervised the building? || Great artist Phidas ||
 * What was in it? || Best examples of Greek sculpture ||

13.How does our city express its culture? Tall buildings, sports teams, famous landmarks, memorialize war dead 14. Contributors to Greek culture
 * Sophocles || Tragedies ||
 * Aristophanes || Comedies ||
 * Hippocrates || Scientific study of medicine ||
 * Pythagoras || Mathematical theories ||
 * Archimedes || Physics and mathematics ||
 * Philosopher || Ideas and writings ||
 * Socrates || Used questioning to examine life ||
 * Plato || Taught that rulers should be philosophers who understand justice ||
 * Aristotle || Wrote about nature and government ||

15.. How did ancient Greeks view their gods? They believed that the gods behaved like human beigs and interfered in the lives of humans 16. What did the ancient Greeks add to our understanding of the world? Love of beauty through art, architecture, knowledge of human behavior through poetry, drama and philosophy; information about the natural world through math and science 17. How did the Greeks try to control the world around them in an unstable and dangerous world By seeing to understand it and create beauty 18. how did drama develop from religious rites?