Ancient Greece
The Athenian government was....
a democracy
Which general brought elephants across the Alps to invade Italy?
Hannibal
Which river runs through the Sahara?
the Nile
What happened at the Bastille on July 14, 1789?
The storming of Bastille! The Bastille had fallen - and so had the power of the French Monarchy. The French Revolution had begun!
The famous statue that greeted the newly arriving immigrants in New Your Harbor.
The statue of Liberty
The two most powerful Greek city-states were...
Athens and Sparta
After the third Punic War, what did Rome do to Carthage?
The Romans killed or enslaved everyone, burned the city to the ground, and salted the grounds so nothing could grow where Carthage had been.
Where is the Mojave Desert?
United States
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
An oath made in a tennis court by the National Assembly to stay together to write a new constitution.
This term describes the act of coming to live permanently in a new country.
Immigration
Homer's Iliad is an __________ filled with tales of heroes
epic poem
What happened when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon?
He started a civil war in Rome
On what continent is the Gobi Desert?
Asia
What eventually happened to Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI?
They were beheaded
Which country did not contribute many early settlers, or immigrants, to America?
Poland, England, Germany
Poland
Which city-state led the Delian League?
Athens
The poet who created an Epic Poem about the founding of Rome and Dido and Aeneas was called...
Virgil
An animal with a pouch, such as a kangaroo, is called a...
marsupial
What revolutionary political group was Robespierre once a part of but later turned against beheading many of its members?
The Jacobins
America is viewed as the "Melting Pot". What does that mean?
Generations of immigrants have melted together and abandoned their cultures to become totally assimilated to American society
What does "the Olympic truce" mean?
That they could not fight each other because they would be competing in the Olympic games
Caesar believed Christianity was a threat to the Roman republic because...
Christians would not practice the Roman religion
What is the interior, mostly desert, part of Australia called?
the Outback
Define Bourgeoise
The working class who were not nobles or peasants
Immigrants from this country were banned from entering the US in 1882.
China