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Ancient Greece Blank Map
The coast of Greece, the Aegean islands and Ionia with no names – ready for your own activity.
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Ancient Greece Map Worksheets
Seven map worksheets for a unit on ancient Greece: a blank map of Greece and the Aegean Sea, a labeled map of the cities, seas and regions, sheets for labeling the cities and Mount Olympus and the seas and regions, a page of map questions, and two maps of the Greek world from Massalia to Byzantium.
Every sheet comes as an A4 and a US Letter PDF.Print it, then play it
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Ancient Greece Map
Athens, Sparta, Marathon, Delphi, Olympia, Knossos, Troy and other places, with Mount Olympus, the seas and the regions named.
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Label the Cities of Ancient Greece
Fifteen lettered places, from Athens and Sparta to Marathon, Troy and Mount Olympus. Students name each one using the word bank.
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Label the Seas and Regions of Ancient Greece
Students name the Aegean, Ionian and Mediterranean Seas and the regions of Macedonia, the Peloponnese, Ionia and Crete.
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Ancient Greece Map Questions
A labeled map and five questions about the Olympic Games, Sparta, Knossos, Mount Olympus and the Aegean Sea.
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Map of the Greek World
Greek cities and colonies around the Mediterranean, from Massalia in the west to Byzantium in the east.
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Label the Greek Colonies
Eight lettered cities around the Mediterranean. Students name each Greek city and colony using the word bank.
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How the Ancient Greece worksheets work
The maps show the coastline as it is today with no modern borders, so the city-states, Ionia and Macedonia sit on the land as the ancient Greeks knew it. Start with the labeled map, then use the labeling sheets and map questions to check what students remember; the Greek world sheets suit a lesson on trade and colonies. There are no answer sheets: the labeled maps work for checking.
Each activity has its instructions, a key to colour in and space for pupils' answers printed on the sheet. The maps are crisp black line drawings with no names, so they photocopy cleanly and pupils do the finding themselves.
How to use these ancient Greece map worksheets
Start with the labeled map so students can see where the city-states, seas and regions are, then use the labeling sheets and the map questions to check what they remember. The map of the Greek world shows how far the Greeks traded and founded colonies, from Massalia in France to Byzantium on the Black Sea, and works well with a lesson on why a mountainous land with a long coast turned its people toward the sea.
Places from different times
The maps put places from more than a thousand years of history together. Knossos on Crete and Mycenae belong to the Bronze Age; Athens, Sparta, Marathon and Thermopylae to the Classical age of the city-states and the Persian Wars. The coastline is drawn as it is today, so Miletus, a port in ancient times, now sits a few miles inland.
Which grades are they for?
Ancient Greece is most often taught in sixth grade world history. The labeled map and blank map suit grades 3 to 6, and the labeling sheets, map questions and Greek world maps suit grades 5 to 7.
Frequently asked questions
What were the main city-states of ancient Greece?
Athens and Sparta were the most powerful. Corinth, Thebes, Argos and Miletus were also important city-states.
Why was ancient Greece split into city-states?
Mountains and the sea divided the land into small valleys, plains and islands, so each city grew up on its own with its own government.
Where were the first Olympic Games held?
At Olympia, in the west of the Peloponnese, in 776 BC.
Where is Mount Olympus?
In the north of Greece, between Thessaly and Macedonia. At 9,570 feet (2,917 m), it is the highest mountain in Greece and, in myth, the home of the gods.
What seas surround Greece?
The Aegean Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Are there answer keys?
No. The labeled ancient Greece map works for checking the labeling sheets.
