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Unit 4—Study Guide—Greece
Directions: Answer the following questions using specific details. Use your book, your notes, and any
other worksheet/map you’ve received to help you. Notes and textbook page numbers where specific
answers can be found are in (parentheses).
1. Who were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans? Where were they from? What did they do for a living?
(Greece Notes 1/151-157)
2. Who was Homer? For what reasons do we remember him? (Greece Notes 1/158-159)
3. What do you know about the Trojan War? Who fought in it? Why did they go to war? Why did it last
so long? How did it finally end? * (159/Trojan War Outline)
4. What was the Parthenon? Why was it built? Where was it built? (Greece Notes 2/174)
HINT: Questions
marked with this
symbol * are openended questions you
will see on the test.
5. What do you know about Sparta? What do you know about its location, its government, its culture
(way of life), the reasons we remember the Spartans, etc.? * (Greece Notes 2-3/164-167)
6. Explain the key characteristics of a monarchy, a democracy, an oligarchy, and tyranny. (Greece
Notes 2/(democracy and oligarchy on169))
Monarchy
Democracy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
7. Describe what life was like for a boy in Sparta from birth to old age. * (Greece Notes 3/166-167)
8. Explain how life was better for women in Sparta than in other places of Greece. (Greece Notes
3/167)
9. What do you know about Athens? What do you know about its location, its government, its culture
(way of life), the reasons we remember the Athenians, etc.? (Greece Notes 3/168-175)
10. List the winner of and one interesting fact about each battle of the Persian Wars: Marathon,
Thermopylae, and Salamis. * (Greece Notes 3/171-173)
Marathon
Thermopylae
Salamis
13. What was the Delian League? Why did members pay money? Why did it fail? (Greece Notes
3/173-174)
14. What was the Peloponnesian War? Who fought in it? Who won? (Greece Notes 3/175-176)
15. What do you know about the following Greek philosophers? (Stations Notes/185-188)
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
16. What were the Olympics? How did they start? (Stations Notes/181-183)
18. Define/Describe the following vocabulary terms:
polisacropolisagoraaristocrats helots philosophers tragedies comedies –
mythology –
peninsula 19. Describe four gods/goddesses that we learned about in class from your presentations.
God/goddess’s name
Their Symbol
One Fact About Them
Map Study Guide
The top map shows you the features that you need to know for your Greece Test. Use the bottom map and
the word bank to test yourself.
Aegean Sea
Italy
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Greece
Peloponnesus
Crete
Africa
Asia
Europe
Macedonia
Athens