Vocabulary
An independent community that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state.
Patricians
Mostly wealthy land owners.
What are Aristocrats?
Kings and Queens advisers/noblemen.
Serfs
Farmers and often poor and lived with their animals.
What is Democracy?
a government in which people can influence law and vote for representatives.
Philosophers.
People who examine questions about the universe, and search for the truth.
Plebeians
Mostly farmers and non wealthy.
Athens and Sparta.
Came together to defeat King Darius the 1st, after that became fierce rivals.
Woman's life
Woman were there fathers proprieties until they got married and then they were their husbands proprieties. Woman often did the farming and cooked all the meals.
Republic
German tribes
Roman Way
Showing self control, working hard, doing ones duty, and pledging loyalty to Rome.
Golden Age.
a period of wealth and power during which democracy developed further and Greek culture flourished.
Bubonic plague
a plague swept through Europe and killed many people, the people that survived got better jobs and more rights.
Veto
To reject a decision made by the other consul.
Aqueducts
carried water to parts of the Roman empire.
Roman Empire
The Romans began to conqure many countries and later made one of the biggest empires to the worlds, knowledge.
Alexander the Great.
Conquered Greece, loved the culture and spread the news of the gods, and made a great nation out of it.
Church
Back then church was different every one gave 1/10 of what they earned to the church and if you were sick they thought you were sick because you weren't praying correctly.
Judicial Branch
made up of 8 judges who served for one year.
Feudal system
a social structure that was organized like a pyramid. Pyramid went in order like this: Kings, Lords, Vassals, Serfs.
Julius Caesar
Rose to power and became the only ruler in Rome. Later a small group of senators stabbed him to death.
Polytheistic religion
Medicine
Back then they didn't have a good relationship with medicine, they didn't know what cured what so often times when you got sick that was the end of it.
Rights
In most countries woman don't have many rights they are often referred to as property. Men have many rights and often have the right to vote and own properties.