Name: _________________________#_____Period____

Ancient Greece – The Rise of the Greek Cities

Chapter 8, Lesson 2 Study Guide

The Big Picture

1. What is a city-state? _____________________________________
2. What did the Greeks call it? _______________________________
3. What time period do we know the most about in Greek history? ___________________________

A Greek Polis

4. What was the center of a city-state? __________________________
5. What purpose did it serve? _________________________________________________________
6. What was the role of the agora? _______________________________

Developing Governments

7. How did citizenship in ancient Greece differ from citizenship in modern countries? __________________________________________________
8. Did all free men have an equal opportunity to be part of the government? Explain ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. Who were the slaves? __________________________________________
10. How does a monarchy differ from an oligarchy? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Two Greek Cities

Compare and contrast Sparta and Athens

                                           Sparta                                      Athens

11.Name the peninsula

 it is located on.              ___________________      ______________________

12. Schooling                  ___________________      ______________________

13. Girls                        ___________________       ______________________

14. Boys                        ____________________     ______________________

15. Government             _____________________     _____________________

Power to the People

16. What makes a democracy? _________________________________________________________________

Shared Culture

17. Where did the gods and goddesses live? _________________________________________________________________

Special Festivals

18. Who did the people of Athens worship? ______________________________

19. Who was the most powerful god? ___________________________________

A Greek Poet

20. Who is Homer? _________________________________________________________________

21. What did he write (name his famous 2 epics)? _________________________________________________________________

Beyond Greece

22. Why were the colonies important trading partners? _________________________________________________________________

23. Who was the god of the sun? _________________________________________________________________

Main Ideas

24. Life in most of the Greek city-states revolved around an _________ and an ____________________.

25. Spartans spent most of their time strengthen their _______________.

FOR YOUR TEST BE ABLE TO

-         compare and contrast Sparta and Athens

-         explain the effect of slavery in Sparta

-         explain the 3 types of government