Ancient Greece

The Greeks were the greatest （great） sailors of their time. Greece has one excellent _____（41）（nature） feature—the coastline. That’s why many Greeks left the mountains and_____（42）（take） to the sea.

The ancient Greeks have_____（43）（give） the world many ideas about life and how to live it. The idea of democracy（民主）started in Greece. So did many ideas of science, religion and_____（44）（govern）. But these ideas did not come out of Greece as a whole. Instead, they grew up in_____（45）（differ） cities throughout the Greek Empire.

The cities of Greece grew up in valleys near the sea. Each city was_____（46）（separate） from the others by mountains. The roads_____（47）（connect） the cities were narrow and winding. Each city governed itself in its own way. And the_____（48）（citizen） of each city were very proud of its way of life. In fact, each city was_____（49）（real） an independent state. Such places are called city-states by_____（50）（politics） scientists.