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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter three

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1. The ___________, _______________, and ____________________ of the period c. 1200-c. 1000 B.C. destroyed Mycenaean civilization.
2. This chaos brought grinding __________ to surviving populations.
3. This era is difficult to reconstruct because few ________ or __________ sources exist to supplement the archaeological information.
4. It has been customary to call this period Greece’s _____________.
5. Nonetheless, the Greeks in these dark centuries laid the foundations for the _________, ___________, and new forms of _________ and ___________ organization that would characterize them in later ages.
6. The Greeks apparently most their knowledge of ________ when Mycenaean civilization was destroyed. In its place was the _____ transmission of traditions of the past. Examples of this were _________, __________, ____________, and oral performances of _______.
7. The Greeks of later periods suffered from a virtual _________ about their ______ Age ancestors. They believed the myth that the ________ had invaded southern and central Greece. They were the ancestors of the _____________.
8. The Greeks ________ much less land and had fewer ________ in the early Dark Age than at the height of ____________ prosperity. There were few ____ filled with Greek adventurers and raiders, __________________ no longer existed, and people eked out their existence as _________, ____________, and ______________. They lived in tiny settlements as small as ____ people in many cases.
9. This was a time of _______ populations and a decline in the amount of land that was ______________. Many Greeks began to turn to _____ animals as a larger part of their living. Homes were just simple _____.
10. By about ____ B.C., at least small numbers of Greeks had become wealthy enough to have valuable objects ______ with them.
11. At this time, _____ replaced _______ as the principal metal used to make tools and weapons. This new metal was easier to ________, making it less ______ to produce. Also, implements made of this metal kept their _______________ longer. Greeks could mine _____ in their own territory, rather than having to import the ____ used to make bronze.
12. A burial site from Athens in 850 B.C. shows that _______ was once again becoming significant in Greece, overshadowing the herding of animals.
13. As the Greeks produced more food, their __________ grew, which supplied more people to produce more ______.
14. Greece never had an official ___________, which is why it is more accurate to refer to the leading members of Greek society as an ______ rather than an aristocracy.
15. According to martin, the social values of the Dark Age elite underlie the stories told in the _______ and the ________. These works were composed at the _____ of the Dark Ages.
16. The Greeks relearned the technology of ________ as a result of contact with the civilizations of the ___________. Sometime between about _____ and _____ A.D. the Greeks adopted a ____________ alphabet.
17. The Greeks believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by _______, a _______ poet from the region of ___________ called __________.
18. The men in the poems are _________, like the incomparable __________.
19. The hero of the Odyssey is _______________, and his wife is named ______________.
20. _________ as a competitive value for Greek _______ of the social _______ showed up early in the _______________ Games.
21. The Games were a __________ festival associated with a large sanctuary of _________, king of the _____ of the Greeks. They were held in ___________, where they were held every ____ years beginning in ____ B.C.
22. Greek athletes competed without ___________, which might explain why ____ were not admitted!
23. Women had their own version of the Olympics in honor of the goddess ______.
24. In later times, sporting events such as the Olympics were dominated by ________________ athletes.
25. The Olympics were centered on contests among ___________, but since they were open to all Greeks, they were part of a trend toward _____________ activity. This was an important precondition for the creation of Greece’s new _________ forms.
26. _________ provided the context for almost all communal activity throughout the history of ancient Greece.
27. The conceptual basis of Greek religion was found in ______. The Greek poet ______ collected many of these.
28. Hesiod portrays the outrage of ________ at receiving unfair treatment in the settlement of _____________. This was another stimulus for the gradual movement toward the type of political organization known as the _________.

Short answer

1. What did one have to do in order to be considered a member of the Greek elite?








2. What values does the "behavioral code" in Homeric epic poetry reflect in "real life" Greek history?









3. Discuss the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece.








4. How does Hesiod explain the divine origin of justice? How does Hesiod’s conception differ from that of Homer?