| Web source: Mrs. Hayes' Class Web Page Lesson 1, Objective1 |
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Objective 1: Students will identify the location of Ancient Greece, review its geographic features,
and record significant literary sites.
| Assignment
Step 1: Download a copy of the Classical Greece map by click the link. Study the map and label any familiar features. |
| Step 2: Use the sites provided
to label the features listed below on your map: (1) The Aegean
Sea, (2) the Ionian Sea, (3) The Sea of Crete, (4) Mt. Olympus, (5) Ithaca, (6) Troy, (7) Asia Minor, (8) Athens, (9) Sparta, (10) Crete, (11) Peloponnese, and (12) Macedonia. Click here.
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| Step 3: Describe the
geographical features of Greece. Check your responses here.
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| Step 4: Where is the
Peloponnese? What does the word mean?
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| Step 5: Use the following map to draw Odysseus' route from Ithaca to Troy. Click here |
| Step 6: Using the
route you've drawn and the following map, calculate the
miles Odysseus
traveled from Ithaca to Troy. Answer: ____________________ miles.
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| Step 7: What impact did the
geographical formation have on its people and their government?
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| Step 8: Did the landscape make Greece
more or less vulnerable to invasions?
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| Step 9: What is the meaning of the word acropolis? |
| Step 10: What role might the location and environment
of Greece have played in the evolution of
classical Greek mythology?
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