Greece: mountains, seas and city-states; Athens and Sparta

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Greeks beyond their mountains

   Topic	What we know
   Food	until the 700s BCE the mainland grew enough food; later, Athens depended on grain from lands north of the Black Sea, in today's Ukraine
   Settling new lands	from the 700s to the 500s BCE, Greeks founded settlements around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; reasons included growing populations and drought
   Massalia	founded about 600 BCE by Greeks from Phocaea; today it is Marseille, France; it became a center of Greek trade in the western Mediterranean
   Selling goods	fine pottery from Attica was bought by other peoples around the Mediterranean, such as the Etruscans in Italy

2. 1.

   Where did Athens get much of its grain, Kira asks?

   • From Massalia
   • From its own mountains
   • From lands north of the Black Sea
   • From the Etruscans
3. 2.

   What is Massalia today, Luz asks?

   • Phocaea, its founders' home
   • Marseille, France
   • Ukraine
   • Athens, Greece
4. 3.

   Why did Greeks found settlements far from home, Noah asks?

   • Just one reason: to see the sea
   • Because the Etruscans asked them
   • Because Greece had too much farmland
   • Growing populations and drought
5. 4.

   Why did Athens come to depend on grain from abroad, Pia asks?

   • Grain could not grow anywhere in Greece
   • Greece had too much grain
   • Ukraine needed Greek grain
   • Too little farmland to feed its people
6. 5.

   Massalia grew into a center of trade in the western Mediterranean. What helped, Ren asks?

   • Being far from the sea
   • Just its mountains
   • Its coastal place, open to sea trade
   • Trade made the coast
7. 6.

   Tala's chain reads: Attica makes fine pottery → ? → the pots are found in Etruscan Italy. What fills the blank?

   • Grain is made into pots
   • Ships carry the pottery to buyers abroad
   • The Etruscans make the pots first, then Athens copies them
   • The pottery stays in Attica
8. 7.

   Zee's chain reads: Greeks from Phocaea settle on the coast → ? → Massalia becomes a trade center. What fills the blank?

   • Massalia founds Phocaea
   • The mountains block the sea
   • The settlement grows and trades by sea
   • The settlers leave at once
9. 8.

   Bo's note says, "Massalia founded the city of Phocaea." Which fix is right?

   • Change "Massalia" to "Sparta"
   • Swap them: Phocaea's people founded Massalia
   • Change "city" to "island"
   • Leave it: Massalia came first
10. 9.

    Esme's note says, "Greece always grew enough food for everyone." Which fix is right?

    • Change "Greece" to "Crete"
    • Leave it: Greece had plenty of farmland
    • Change "food" to "pottery"
    • Change it: later, Athens bought grain
11. 10.

    Jun's note says, "Greeks settled new lands for a single reason." Which fix is right?

    • Change "new lands" to "mountains"
    • Change "Greeks" to "Etruscans"
    • Leave it: one reason is enough to explain it
    • Change it: there were several reasons