Geography
Government
Vocabulary
Greece
Rome
100
This is land that is surrounded on three sides by water. Greece is an example of this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
100
These people could vote in Athens.
Who are male citizens over the age of 20?
100
The period of time between 479 to 431 BCE when ancient Greeks achieved many things.
What is the Golden Age?
100
The Ancient Greeks created a(n) ____________ to write down their ideas.
What is alphabet?
100
The Roman Republic came before the Roman ________.
What is Empire?
200
These landforms made farming in Greece difficult.
What are mountains?
200
These people could not vote in Athens.
Who are slaves, women, men under the age of 20 and non-citizens.
200
A government ruled by the people.
What is a democracy?
200
Greeks built these to honor their gods and goddesses.
What are temples?
200
Romans spread their ideas by using these structures built by soldiers.
What are roads?
300
The fertile _________ were used for farming in Greece.
What are valleys?
300
In the early Roman Republic these people could vote.
Who are male citizens?
300
A concrete bridge-like structure through which clean water is transported.
What is an aqueduct?
300
Greeks wrote their ideas using an _____________ that we still use today.
What is alphabet?
300
The Romans adopted many ideas passed on by the Etruscans from the ____________.
Who are Greeks?
400
Rome's geography is made up mostly of these grassy landforms.
What are plains?
400
A government ruled by the people where all citizens vote on issues.
What is democracy?
400
A group of about 300 elected officials in Ancient Rome who made decisions for the people.
What is the Senate?
400
Through trading with the Greeks, the Etruscans learned many new ideas. They passed these ideas on to the __________.
Who are the Romans?
400
These people conquered Rome and taught Romans to use an alphabet.
Who are the Etruscans?
500
The Roman Empire was very large, so Roman soldiers built ________ to make it easy to travel near and far.
What are roads?
500
A government in which citizens vote for leaders to represent them in the government.
What is a republic?
500
A group of nations ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
500
Located in the Mediterranean Sea, this peninsula has both steep mountains and fertile valleys.
What is Greece?
500
The people who occupied, or lived in, Rome before the Romans.
Who are the Etruscans?
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