Vocabulary
a commoner in ancient Rome
What is a plebeian?
The chief god of the Greeks
Who is Zeus?
This was a long period of peace in the Roman Empire
What is the Pax Romana?
This is a question-and-answer system of learning
What is the Socratic Method?
This city-state won the Peloponnesian War
a skilled public speaker
What is an orator?
The requirements to be a citizen in Athens
What are must be 18, must be male, must be born to 2 Athenian parents, and must not be enslaved?
This document established Christianity as a legal religion in the Roman Empire
What is the Edict of Milan?
The three major Athenian dramatists
Who are Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus?
This is the most important Greek building and a temple to honor Athena
What is the Parthenon?
a type of philosopher in ancient Greece
What is a sophist?
The epic poems written by Homer
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
This is the chief governing body of Rome
What is the Senate?
This philosopher focused on finding the perfect forms of life in the ideal state
Who is Plato?
This person raided Saguntum, attacked Rom by land, and trekked across the Alps
Who is Hannibal?
banish, send away
An alliance of city-states developed to protect Greece from foreign invaders, including Persia
What is the Delian League?
This person was a great Roman general that craved power no matter what the cost and started a civil war in Rome
Who is Julius Caesar?
Truth is most important to this philosopher
Who is Aristotle?
This is what the eastern part of the Roman Empire became
What is the Byzantine Empire?
civilization that adopted the culture of ancient Greece
What is Hellenistic?
This is the group that voted to determine government policy in ancient Athens
What is the Assembly?
This man established peace that lasted for a long time in ancient Rome
Who is Caesar Augustus?
The White House, Capitol, and Jefferson Memorial is based on the architecture of these two civilizations
What are Greece and Rome?
These are the areas that Alexander the Great conquered
What is Greece, the Persian Empire, and the Middle East (Mesopotamia)?