Ancient Rome
Ancient Greece
Mali
Geography
Vocabulary
100
The Colosseum in Rome has this kind of architectural structure in it.
What are arches?
100
Greece is located next to this body of water that helped them trade with other countries.
What is The Mediterranean Sea?
100
The Early West African Empire of Mali was located on this content.
What is Africa?
100
Greece, Italy and Florida are examples of pieces of land that bordered by water on all 3 sides but connected to mainland.
What is a peninsula?
100
Definition: The act of giving for -- example something that "One of Greece's _________________ for architecture to the world today, was columns."
What is a contribution?
200
The name for Rome's government in which people vote for or elect representatives to make their rules and laws for them? It was also used as a model for the government of the U.S.
What is a representative government?
200
Ancient Greece adapted to the hillside environments by creating this kind of farming.
What is terraced farming?
200
What you would see if you visited Timbuktu. Has a lot of books and is in a university.
What is a university library?
200
The imaginary line around the middle of the Earth that divides the globe into northern and southern hemispheres?
What is The Equator?
200
adj. 1. indicating the character or distinctive quality of a person or thing; typical. n. 2. a distinguishing feature or quality. Example: Three of the human _________________ for Ancient Rome were Farmers, Shipbuilders and Traders.
What is a characteristic?
300
An ancient Rome contribution that helped carry water from streams.
What is an aqueduct?
300
This memorial in Washington DC has Doric Columns similar to those used in ancient Greek architecture.
What is The Lincoln Memorial?
300
How history and traditions were passed down from generation to the next.
What are storytellers.
300
The imaginary line that divides the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres?
What is "The Prime Meridian?"
300
The character style of a building. Example: Ancient Rome contributed aqueducts as a form of ______________ for the modern world today.
What is architecture?
400
Today, Rome is a city in this country.
What is Italy?
400
Ancient Greece contributed to this form of government in which citizens vote to make their own laws..
What is democracy?
400
The Early West African Empire of Mali was governed by these.
What is a king?
400
The symbol on a map that shows direction (north, south, east, west)...hint...has the name of a red flower in it. ;)
What is a Compass Rose?
400
The external conditions or surroundings, especially those in which people live or work. To adapt to their __________________ and get around, ancient Rome made roads.
What is environment?
500
The famous Roman building that used arches in its construction and was used for gladiator contests.
What is the Colosseum?
500
A sporting event that originated in Greece that is still active today.
What are "The Olympics?"
500
The West African people of Mali adapted to their land by mining this.
What is gold?
500
Term used to describe half of a sphere by the Prime Meridian or the Equator?
What is a hemisphere?
500
the group of people who control and make decisions for a country, state, etc. The type of ________________ that ancient Greece contributed to the world was direct democracy.
What is government?
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