2. What things do we find in the ruins of ancient cities which tell
us how the people lived?

3. From what country did most of our words come in the beginning?
Why are they now called English? What peoples used the word
geography before we did? About how many words do we get from the
Greeks, and how many from the Romans?

4. Which people became famous earlier, the Greeks or the Romans?
Point out on the map the peninsula where each lived.

5. Why do we like to remember the brave deeds of the Greeks?

6. Find the city of Athens on the map. Find Sparta. Where
was Marathon? What city won glory at Marathon?

7. What were the worst faults of the Greeks?

EXERCISES

1. Collect pictures of ruined cities in Italy, Greece, and Asia
Minor, from illustrated papers, magazines, or advertising folders.
Collect postal cards giving such pictures.

2. Choose the best one of the Greek stories mentioned in Chapter II,
and tell it.

3. Find out how differently soldiers now are clothed and armed from
the way the Greek soldiers were.