The beginning of ancient history: Greece’s nature and its first civilizations
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
How did Greece’s natural conditions affect the people’s occupations? Write 4–5 sentences.
Mountainous land was less fertile, so seafaring, trade and crafts developed; farming was in the valleys.
2
Find Crete, Mycenae, Sparta, Athens and Mount Olympus on a map.
Crete — an island in the south; Mycenae and Sparta — in the Peloponnese; Athens — in Attica; Olympus — in the north.
3
List the reasons Minoan civilization weakened.
A volcanic eruption, earthquake, flooding and then the Achaean invasion.
4
Write 4 sentences about the Greeks’ sea voyages.
At first along the coast, later on sailing ships to Egypt, the Mediterranean and Black Sea shores.