This is an abridged and edited version of a small part of Will Durant's The Life of Greece. Read it and use its contents and your good brains to answer the questions on the separate sheet.  Hopefully, this description of the people of Greece during the Homeric Age, whom Durant calls "Achaeans", and the questions you must attack, will give you some useful food for thought.

    "They are physical - the men tall and powerful, the women lovely. They look down on literacy as (sissy or effeminate); the only literature they know is the military chant and the unwritten song of the (wandering singer).

  "As to clothing, both sexes cover the body with a quadrangular garment folded over the shoulders, tied with a clasp pin, and reaching to the knees. Women may add a girdle, men a loincloth, and these later will evolve into drawers and trousers. The rich wear costly robes. Men are bare-legged, women bare-armed. Both sexes wear shoes or sandals outdoors; usually are barefoot inside. Both sexes wear jewelry, and women wear perfume.

   "How do these men and women live?  Homer shows them to us as tilling the soil, sniffing with pleasure the freshly-turned dark earth, running their eyes with pride along the furrows they have plowed so straight, winnowing the wheat, irrigating the fields, and banking up the streams against the winter floods. He makes us feel the despair of the peasant whose months of toil have been washed away. The land is hard to farm. Much of it is mountain or swamp, or deeply wooded hill. The villages are visited by wild beasts and hunting is a necessity before it becomes a sport. The rich are stock breeders, raising cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and horses. The poor eat fish and grain, occasionally vegetables. Warriors and the rich rely on great portions of roast meat. They breakfast on meat and (weak) wine.  Gluttony is common among those who can afford it. They have honey instead of sugar, meat fat instead of butter, they eat cakes of grain instead of bread, baked large and thin on a plate of iron or on a hot stone. When they eat they sit on chairs, not around a central table but along the walls, with little tables between the seats. There are no spoons, forks or napkins, and only whatever knives the diners may carry. Eating is managed with the fingers. The staple drink, even among the poor and among children, is (weak) wine.

   "They make many tools out of metal. Their weapons are of Bronze; iron is still rare and an expensive luxury.  Men and women both are expected to learn useful crafts. The family itself provides most of its own needs. They work long hours, but leisurely, without the stimulus of competition.

  "They keep few slaves, and these are mostly female domestic servants. Normally they are well cared for. Any man could become a slave through being conquered in battle.

   "Homeric society is rural and local; even the "cities" are mere villages nestled among the hills. Communication is by messenger or herald, or over long distances, by signal fires flashing from peak to peak. Overland transport is made difficult and dangerous by mountains, streams and swamps. Goods are carried by carts, mules and horses.  Homeric Greeks prefer goods to gold as silver."