SPEED ROUND ~ Background, Land, Sea and Climate BRAIN DUMP ~ Info to Graphic Organizer ANCIENT GREECE

 1. Your team will be your table group.  2. You may not have your pencils.  3. When the timer starts, you will have 3 minutes to read the information on your card as a group. Try to remember as much as you can.  4. When timer goes off, turn over the card on the station desk and read the card.  5. Your runner will bring the card to the next station and repeat step 3. Wait for the timer to start!  6. Once you have read all 4 station cards, get your pencils out.  7. Take a graphic organizer and “Brain Dump” all the information that you learned in each station. You will have 10 minutes. The team with the most accurate info- mation will be the winners.

 Not a united country  Collection of separate lands  Moutainous peninsula  1400 islands in Aegean  Geography shaped traditions and customs BACKGROUND

 Shaped civilization  Lived around sea ~ Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Black Sea  Transportation routes  Connected Greece with other countries  Sea travel and trade important SEA

 ¾ covered by mountains  Land made it difficult to unite under single government  Small independent communities  Transportation difficult  Stony, not suitable for farming  Small streams, little freshwater could not support large population  Diet consisted of grapes, grain and olive

 Varied climate ~ 48 degree in winter, 80 degree in summer  Moderate temperatures supported outdoor life  Leisure time spent at outdoor events  Met to discuss public issues, exchange news

 Advantages: trade, fishing industry, attack enemy by sea, protection  Disadvantages: Separates from other settlements/people

 Advantages: Protection  Disadvantages: isolated, lack of unity & created city-states, farming hard

 Advantages: surplus fish, protection by water 3 sides  Disadvantages: not connected to mainland Greece

 Advantages: seafood, harbors for boats, trade, protection  Disadvantage: separated from other cities