What Greece Left Behind: teacher key

Ancient Greece, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. Democracy, plays, geometry, histories and an alphabet all trace back to the Greeks. Here is what survives and what is still argued.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did Solon's laws do?
   • Made Athens a kingdom
   • Evened out political power among citizens (answer)
   • Ended the Assembly
2. Who took part in the democratic process in mid-4th-century Athens?
   • All 250,000 people
   • Only foreigners
   • About 40,000 male citizens over 18 (answer)
3. What were most Greek statues like?
   • Painted, not polished (answer)
   • Made of gold
   • Left plain white
4. What made it possible to date events in ancient Greece accurately?
   • The Library
   • The alphabet
   • Recorded Olympic victors (answer)
5. What does the Antikythera find show about Greek technology?
   • Gears came from Rome
   • Gears were known much earlier than historians had thought (answer)
   • Gears were never used
6. What does phonetic mean in the passage on the alphabet?
   • Based on sounds (answer)
   • Based on pictures
   • Based on numbers

Words

• polis: Greek city-state
• Assembly: citizens' meeting
• metopes: carved square panels
• pentathlon: five-part contest
• phonetic: sound-based
• deduction: step-by-step reasoning