Since the beginning of time, geography has shaped the development of human civilization, and ancient Greece is no exception. This learning exercise supports young historians with exploring this relationship as they first identify key land masses, bodies of water, and city states in and around Greece, before responding to a series of short answer questions.

Concepts

ancient greece, athens, greece, sparta, the mediterranean, world geography, european history, european geography

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Offer this worksheet as an in-class or homework assignment during a middle school social studies unit on ancient Greece
• Use this as a formative assessment of student learning during a study of ancient Greece

Classroom Considerations

• Students may have difficulty writing the names of geographic locations on the small map, in which case they can use letters or numbers to label them instead

Pros

• Worksheet is a downloadable Word document, which teachers can modify to meet the specific needs of their students
• The four short answer questions require learners to think critically about the influence of geography on ancient Greece

Cons

• An answer key is not included with the exercise

Common Core

RI.6.7 RH.6-8.7