Greece
Rome
The Middle Ages
Vocab
Grab Bag
100

The Peloponnesian War was between...

Athens and Sparta

100

Only adult male landowners born in Rome and were citizens could...

Vote

100

A social structure that was organized like a pyramid.

The feudal system

100

Were mostly wealth land owners.

Patricians

100

Which leader of Greece got the title The Great.

Alexander

200

When Pericles became ruler of Athens, his rule began a...

Golden Age

200

According to the the legend, who founded Rome in 753 B.C.?

Romulus and Remus

200

Who was at the bottom the of feudal system?

The serfs

200

To reject a decision made by another consul.

Veto

200

An important river that runs through Rome.

The Tiber River

300

The rulers of Athens laid the groundwork for ... , a government in which people can influence law and vote for representatives.

Democracy

300

He was the sole ruler of Rome and was very popular with the people, but very unpopular with the Senate.

Julius Caesar

300

Who was second highest in the feudal system?

The lords

300
Were mostly farmers.

Plebeians

300

Was a monk in Germany who wrote the 95 Theses and nailed them to the church door.

Martin Luther

400

In 490 B.C., Athens and Sparta joined forces to defeat the invading army of the...

Persian Empire

400

Octavian became ruler of the Roman Empire and called himself Augustus, witch means...

"honored one"

400

A deadly disease that swept though Europe in 1347 (was also the cause of the feudal system's downfall).

The bubonic plague or black death

400

An independent community that includes a city and its surrounding territory.

City-state

400

The city-state Athens was named after this Greek god.

Athena

500

In Greece, upper-class noblemen were called... (they were also advisers to the king)

Aristocrats

500

This emperor moved the empire's capital to Byzantium and called it Constantinople.

Emperor Constantine
500

Castles in the Middle Ages served as...

Defensive fortresses.

500

Was a way to make paintings look as if they had three dimensions.

Perspective

500

The rebirth of art and learning that began in Italy in the 1300s.

The Renaissance

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