Ancient Key Terms
Channels used to carry water over long distances.
What are aqueducts?
Conqueror from Macedonia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Political units made up of a city and all surrounding lands.
What are city-states?
Established Rome.
Who are the Latins?
Name of the period of peace and achievement in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
People who could take part in the government.
Who are the citizens?
Name of the city-state in eastern Greece.
Where is the Athens?
The name of one river that Alexander the Great and his army crossed.
Where is the Nile river?
Where is the Tigris river?
Where is the Indus river?
Where is the Oxus river?
Strongest shape in construction.
What are arches?
Official religion in Rome.
What is Christianity?
Greek-like
What is hellenistic?
Name of the military city-state in Greece.
Where is Sparta?
The system of government that they followed Athens.
What is democracy?
The first emperor of Rome.
Who is Octavian (or Augustus)?
The new capital built by Constantine.
Where is Constantinople?
Government that includes many different peoples and lands under a single rule.
Name of the author of The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Example of greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
One language that is derived from Latin.
What is Spanish?
What is French?
What is Italian?
What is English?
An example of Roman Literature. (must include the author)
What is:
The Aeneid by Virgil
Odes by Horace
Metamorphoses by Ovid
A period in a society's history marked by great achievement.
What is the Golden Age?
"Highest city"
What is the acropolis?
The name of kingdom where Odysseus lives at in The Odyssey.
Where is Ithaca?
An internal problem in Rome's decline. (Answers may vary)
What are:
poor leaders
high taxes
people less loyal to Rome
empire was too big for one person to rule
An external problem in the decline of Rome. (Answers may vary)
overthrow of Roman emperor in 476
invasions from the Barbarians
military leaders fighting for power