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5. Minoans Ancient Stories Food and Animals 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points MycenaeansGeography

6. Greece is surrounded on three sides by water. What type of landform is this?

7. A peninsula

8. What covers ¾ of Greece?

9. Mountains

10. What is the small strip of land that connects the Peloponnesus to the rest of the mainland called?

11. Isthmus

12. What sea separates Greece and Turkey?

13. Aegean Sea

14. Name another sea that surrounds Greece?

15. Mediterranean, Adriatic, or Ionian Seas

16. Where are the Minoans from?

17. An island named Crete

18. Where is Crete located?

19. It is a part of Greece that lies south of the Balkan Peninsula.

20. What is Crete known for?

21. Its large palaces which were like small cities.

22. Where were the largest palaces on Crete located?

23. Knosses

24. How was the Minoan kingdom said to have been destroyed?

25. By a fire or an earthquake

26. How did the Mycenaeans measure their wealth?

27. By the number of weapons they owned

28. The Mycenaeans learned many Minoan customs through….

29. cultural borrowing

30. The Mycenaeans adopted the cultures of the Minoans. How did they change the Minoan art styles and pottery?

31. They made them more warlike.

32. Why were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans in contact with one another?

33. Trade

34. Why do people believe that the Mycenaean control of Greece got weaker?

35. The Dorians may have come in and burned villages or invaders called the Sea Peoples conquered them.

36. Much of what we know today about the Mycenaeans comes from a famous poet named….

37. Homer

38. Homer created long story-poems called…

39. epics

40. What two famous epics did Homer write?

41. Iliad and the Odyssey

42. What disability did Homer suffer from?

43. He was blind.

44. What was the Trojan horse?

45. The Trojan horse was a sneaky way that the Mycenaeans snuck into the city of Troy

46. What crops did the people of Greece grow?

47. olives, grapes, and grain

48. What animals did the people of Greece raise?

49. sheep, goats, pigs, oxen and some cattle

50. Why did the Greeks raise the animals that they did?

51. The animals need to be able to graze in rocky, mountainous areas.

52. What did the Greeks do with their grapes and olives?

53. They made wine and raisins out of the grapes, and they made olive oil, lamp fuel, and soap out of olives.

54. What is the weather like in Greece?

55. Rain falls mostly in the fall and winter. Summers are hot and dry and winters are not very cold.

56. Make your wager

57. Each mountain village of Greece was fiercely independent. Explain.

58. The mountainous land made travel and trade difficult. They had to survive on the food they raised. They didn’t have much contact with others.