How much can you remember​?

1a) What is the main ​sea​ surrounding Greece? __Mediteranean sea______

1b) What other information can you give about the ​location​ of Greece?

__It is located in Europe and has lots of tiny islands_________

2a) Did Ancient Greece come ​before​ or ​after​ the birth of Christ? ___after Christ_______

2b) Approximately what ​dates​ did the Ancient Greek civilisation begin?
_____________around 780 B.C________________________________

3) When was Ancient Greece extremely powerful and had an empire from France to
Turkey ? _______________500 B.C____________________.

4) What would you call a Greek soldier, and what piece of armour protected his legs?
________________Ahoplite and was protected by Greaves_______________

5) Greek life was quite simple. Name three ways people earned money.
_______________Farming, fishing and trade_______________

6) Name the famous temple you would find at the Acropolis and whom did it worship?
______________The Acropolis worshiped Athene_______________

7) How were Sparta and Athens governed differently?

_______Sparta had rulers and Athens had democracy___________________

8) Name 4 Greek inventions. _____Aqueducts ,Navy ,The dice ,Olympics

9) Name a Greek army strategy. ____phalanx__________________

10) Name 3 Greek ​philosophers OR mathematicians​:

______Socrates___ ___Plato_____ __Homer______

11) Complete this table, giving ​3 similarities​ and ​3 differences​ between ancient and
modern Greece : ​Think about the terrain, landscape, climate and buildings
 Similarities Differences
Not all of Greece used to have
democracy.
They use prefixes and suffixes and root You used to be allowed to have ivory.
words. They used to have a different alphabet.
They worship gods.
They all gamble.

12) Give three Greek ​prefixes​ or ​suffixes​ that we use today in our language:

__penta_____________ ______deca______ _______auto______________

13) What ​words​ can these prefixes/ suffixes make in our language? Write 3
______pentagon,decagon and automobile_____________________________

14) Spell your name out using the ​Greek alphabet​

: USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE TO HELP
_____________​ξοση​________________________________________

15) Complete this table, giving ​3 similarities​ and ​3 differences​ between MODERN
AND ANCIENT ​Olympics​: ​Think about subjects, teaching, what the schools looked like.

Similarities Differences

Jumping, Boxing, Running Discus, Javelin throw, Chariot racing

16) Name several areas conquered by Alexander the Great?

__________Egypt, Persia, Turkey, India and Iran.____________

17) Who was Alexander’s teacher? ____Leonidas________________________

18) He was actually born where? ___Macedonia____________________________