6. During the difficult time of the (BLANK)
Ages trade slowed down, people made
fewer things to buy and sell, people were very poor, farmers grew only enough food to
feed their families and people stopped (BLANK)
and (BLANK)

7. The Greek alphabet had (BLANK) letters that represented different sounds. It made reading
and writing, record keeping easier.

8. The Greeks founded many colonies along the coast of the (BLANK)
Sea and the (BLANK) Sea between 750 B. C. and 550 B. C.

9. The colonies traded with their parent" cities on the Greek mainland. As Greeks began to
make (BLANK)
from metal, this affected their trade. It expanded as merchants traded
money for goods rather than items.

10. The (BLANK)
was the basic political unit of Greek civilization. At the center of each
was a fort built on a hilltop. The hilltop fort was called the (BLANK)

11. In Greece (BLANK)
citizens had the right to vote, hold (BLANK) office, own
and defend themselves in court.

12. The polis gave Greek citizens a sense of (BLANK) This is similar to how
people feel about their home states today.
This is similar to how