"The Athens Subway" **DO NOT WRITE ON THIS CLASS SET**

Mr. Duez
World History

Write the answer on a separate sheet of paper. Get as many answers as you can, I want to be sure you
are watching the video. If you miss a question or two, I am not going to be upset about that. We can go
over it when I return. Do not disrupt someone to get an answer, let them pay attention to the video.

1. What is the capital of Greece?

2. What is eroding the stone structures of Athens?
3. What was the need to improve the public transportation system?
4. When was the project supposed to be completed?
5. What were the people of Athens worried about with the new project?
6. How many square miles of Ancient Greece civilization would be exposed?
7. What year was Athens established as the capital city of a Free Greece?
8. What year was the first Modern Olympiad?
9. When did Line 1 open?
10. Was Greece occupied by Germany in WWII?
11. What year was Democracy restored to Greece?
12. Did the old stations of Line 1 remain open during construction?
13. How much did the TBM's cost?
14. How deep did they decide to make the subway system in Athens?
15. How many men operate the TBMs?
16. Why do the people of Greece celebrate as the TBMs reach new destinations?
17. What is an open faced shield TBM?
18. Why was the new Austrian tunneling method needed?
19. How many feet of tunnel per day can the new Austrian method produce?
20. Who wants to work faster: Engineers or Archaeologists?
21. How many thousands of moveable finds were found by Archaeologists?
22. What was the most outstanding find of Archaeologists?
23. Did Ancient Greeks bury their dead inside or outside of the city walls?
24. What was buried with the dog in the pet cemetery?
25. When did the plague devastate Athens?
26. Why did they leave their dead in the streets?
27. How much time did the Archaeological digs cost the builders?
28. What year was the tunnel opened?
29. How many Greeks used the metro over the first weekend?
30. How many people use the new metro daily?
31. How many tickets were sold for the metro in the first year?
32. The metro reduced the pollutants by how many percent?

Answer these questions in paragraph form:

What is the proper balance between progress and preserving the past?
Was the subway needed?
Who should win the argument to speed the process or slow it down (Engineers or
Archaeologists)?
Are there any Houston buildings or monuments that should never be destroyed or
replaced?