Ancient Greece

Please read pages 100-104 in your textbook and locate a map of ancient Greece.

Geography:

1. Please title and neatly label the following places and bodies of water on the map of the ancient Greece.

Crete Knossos Athens Sparta Corinth Delphi Olympia Thermopylae Mycenae Troy Mt.Olympia Macedonia Troy Ionia Mediterranean Sea Ionian Sea Aegean Sea Sea of Crete Sea of Marmora (Proconnesos)

2. Examine your completed map. What clues does the Geography of Greece provide to explain why, historically, it was difficult to the Greeks to unite? What other challenges does the geography present? Explain fully.

3. What benefits did the geographic location in Greece provide?

4. If you were a leading army in Asia sent to invade Athens, what might your strategy be? Why?

5. In comparing the geography of Ancient Greece and Egypt, which civilization do you think had the advantage? Explain

The Earliest Civilization in Europe: The Minoans

6. Why were the Minoans able to settle on the island of Crete? From where did they originate? By 1900 BCE what aspects of a civilization had the Minoans developed?

7. How did the introduction of Bronze change the Minoan society? Provide three specific changes. How did the Minoans pay for the bronze?

8. Explain the Middle Minoan period. ( Consider evidence of wealth, Linear A, politics, and palaces)

9. What explanations have suggested to account for the decline of Minoan Civilization?

10. * After viewing the myth Theseus and the Minotaur explain what we can learn about the ancient Greeks from the myth. Make specific reference to the myth in your response.

Ancient Greece

Please read pages 100-104 in your textbook and locate a map of ancient Greece.

Geography:

1. Please title and neatly label the following places and bodies of water on the map of the ancient Greece.

Crete Knossos Athens Sparta Corinth Delphi Olympia Thermopylae Mycenae Troy Mt.Olympia Macedonia Troy Ionia Mediterranean Sea Ionian Sea Aegean Sea Sea of Crete Sea of Marmora (Proconnesos)

2. Examine your completed map. What clues does the Geography of Greece provide to explain why, historically, it was difficult to the Greeks to unite? What other challenges does the geography present? Explain fully.

3. What benefits did the geographic location in Greece provide?

4. If you were a leading army in Asia sent to invade Athens, what might your strategy be? Why?

5. In comparing the geography of Ancient Greece and Egypt, which civilization do you think had the advantage? Explain The Earliest Civilization in Europe: The Minoans

6. Why were the Minoans able to settle on the island of Crete? From where did they originate? By 1900 BCE what aspects of a civilization had the Minoans developed?

7. How did the introduction of Bronze change the Minoan society? Provide three specific changes. How did the Minoans pay for the bronze?

8. Explain the Middle Minoan period. ( Consider evidence of wealth, Linear A, politics, and palaces)

9. What explanations have suggested to account for the decline of Minoan Civilization?

10. * After viewing the myth Theseus and the Minotaur explain what we can learn about the ancient Greeks from the myth. Make specific reference to the myth in your response