Holt Social Studies 6th Grade Greece

Question 1

The citizens of the early democracy wrote their votes on pieces of paper.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Because they lived on an island, the Mycenaeans spent too much time at sea.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

All of the following leaders would approve of the US democracy except.................

Accepted Answer

Draco

Question 4

The Greeks believed that their _____________ caused events like thunderstorms and earthquakes.

Accepted Answer

Gods

Question 5

A famous poet and one of the earliest Greek writers

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 6

Brilliant leader elected to lead Athens in 460 BCE

Accepted Answer

Pericles

Question 7

Rich landowners

Accepted Answer

Aristocrat

Question 8

Which of the following did not take place in the agora?

Accepted Answer

Hiding from invading armies

Question 9

Because traveling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks.............

Accepted Answer

Became expert ship builders

Question 10

Which of the following best describes a lyric poem?

Accepted Answer

A poem set to music

Question 11

Why did many Greeks visit the Oracle of Delphi?

Accepted Answer

To ask the god Apollo questions

Question 12

Which of the following does not describe the first democracy in Athens?

Accepted Answer

Aristocrats had more power than citizens

Question 13

People who have the right to participate in the government

Accepted Answer

Citizens

Question 14

How was the form of ancient democracy different from our current form of democratic government?

Accepted Answer

Voting took place on broken pieces of pottery

Question 15

The __________ tells the story of the last years of the Trojan War.

Accepted Answer

Illiad

Question 16

Apollo was the god of the ___________.

Accepted Answer

Sun

Question 17

Which of the following best describes a representative democracy?

Accepted Answer

Citizens elect officials to make the laws

Question 18

Everyone who lived in a city state lived inside the cities walls.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works

Accepted Answer

Mythology

Question 20

All of the following were Greek colonies except:

Accepted Answer

Alexandria, Egypt

Question 21

The ______________ Sea lies to the East of the Greeks mainland.

Accepted Answer

Aegean

Question 22

The Minoans and _______________ helped shape later Greek cultures.

Accepted Answer

Mycenaeans

Question 23

It was natural for the Greeks to produce great literature because they liked telling myths

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

A Greek famous for his fables........

Accepted Answer

Aesop

Question 25

High hill that often had a fortress on its top

Accepted Answer

Acropolis

Question 26

Which of the following shows that Greeks strongly influenced our language?

Accepted Answer

Many words and expressions come from Greek mythology

Question 27

In what ways were the Minoans different from the Mycenaeans?

Accepted Answer

The Mycenaeans lived on the Greek mainland

Question 28

A leader who uses force to hold power

Accepted Answer

Tyrant

Holt Social Studies 6th Grade Greece

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Holt Social Studies 6th Grade Greece

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