The Land
When you are able to farm land, it is known as this.
What is Arable?
The seas were generally peaceful during this word for Roman Peace.
What is Pax Romana?
A country ruled by a king is known as this.
What is a monarchy?
At the center of a Greek polis stood one these structures which housed the city's temples. Athen's included the Parthenon.
What is an Acropolis?
Civil war erupted after the Senate stabbed this leader to death.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Plato established a school for teaching his ideas known as this.
What is the Academy?
These landmasses made it difficult to unite ancient Greece.
What are Mountains?
The Romans called this sea Mare Nostrum -- our Sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
The Roman Law code was first recorded and displayed publicly with this.
What are the Twelves Tables?
Roman emperors were expected to provide the people with entertainment and basic food supplies, also known as this term.
What is 'bread and circus'?
Conquered people in Sparta became slaves, also known as this.
Who are helots?
Perhaps the closest example of Plato's ideal of the 'Philosopher King' was Emperor Marcus Aurelius who also wrote extensively about this form of philosophy.
What is Stoicism?
What is Italy?
The Delian League defeated King Xerxes I of this empire in naval battles.
What is Persia?
What are Patricians?
Who is Sappho?
This roman allied himself with Cleopatra of Egypt before he was defeated by Octavian.
Who is Marc Antony?
This philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
This Roman Emperor was famous for building walls to better define the empire.
Who is Hadrian?
This group invented the alphabet as they traded across the seas.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The Roman Republic appointed two leaders for a term of one year, known as these.
What are Consuls?
The ancient Greeks developed these two main forms of drama that they acted out in plays.
What are Tragedy and Comedy?
The ancient Romans defeated these rulers to establish the Roman Republic.
Who are the Etruscans?
The Athenians condemend this man to death for 'corrupting the youth of Athens.'
Who is Socrates?
Carthage was located in this continent.
What is Africa?
The Romans amassed a great fleet in its campaigns against Carthage in these wars.
What are the Punic Wars?
This famous Greek expanded democracy in Athens.
Who is Pericles?
This philosopher during the Hellenistic period invented a way to pump water using a screw design.
Who is Archimedes?
Ancient Greek foot-soldiers were known as this.
What are Hoplites?
This Greek philosopher expoused his concept of the Golden Mean, or acting moderately and avoiding extremes
Who is Aristotle?