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.

   What is Massalia today, Luz asks?

   • Marseille, France
   • Phocaea, its founders' home
   • Athens, Greece
   • Ukraine
3. 2.

   The cell marked ? is blank. Milo's chart has a blank: when did Greeks found settlements around the Mediterranean?

   • From the 700s to the 500s BCE
   • In the 1900s
   • From the 500s to the 700s CE
   • About 600 BCE, and no other time

4. 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

5. 3.

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

   • Because the Etruscans asked them
   • Because Greece had too much farmland
   • Just one reason: to see the sea
   • Growing populations and drought
6. 4.

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

   • Too little farmland to feed its people
   • Greece had too much grain
   • Ukraine needed Greek grain
   • Grain could not grow anywhere in Greece
7. 5.

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

   • Its coastal place, open to sea trade
   • Just its mountains
   • Being far from the sea
   • Trade made the coast
8. 6.

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

   • The Etruscans make the pots first, then Athens copies them
   • Ships carry the pottery to buyers abroad
   • The pottery stays in Attica
   • Grain is made into pots
9. 7.

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

   • The settlement grows and trades by sea
   • The mountains block the sea
   • The settlers leave at once
   • Massalia founds Phocaea
10. 8.

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

    • Leave it: Massalia came first
    • Change "Massalia" to "Sparta"
    • Change "city" to "island"
    • Swap them: Phocaea's people founded Massalia
11. 9.

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

    • Change it: later, Athens bought grain
    • Change "Greece" to "Crete"
    • Leave it: Greece had plenty of farmland
    • Change "food" to "pottery"
12. 10.

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

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