Important People, empires, And Events
Acheivements and new technology
Greek Vocab
Roman Vocab
Government
100
The Greek God of weather and king of all gods.(The Romans call him Juppiter)
Who is Zeus ?
100
Greece defeated the Persians in this war after 20 years of gruesome fighting.
What is the Persian War?
100
A narrow water passage.
What is a strait?
100
Someone who has complete control of the government.
What is a dictator?
100
When the people vote for their leader.
What is a republic?
200
This empire was created by the Minoans and ended at around 133 B.C.
What is the Greek Empire?
200
Rome created and spoke this language and is now a dead language.
What is Latin?
200
A play that tells stories of human suffering that usually ends in disaster.
What is tragedy?
200
A work of art that contains different colored stones and tiles.
What is a mosaic?
200
when the people hold power of the government.
What is a democracy?
300
This War lasted 27 years and was between the "Delian League" and the "Peloponnesian league"
What is The Peloponnesian War?
300
Bridge like structures made of stone to bring water down from the hills into Roman cities.
What is an aqueduct?
300
A fixed salary for men who hold a spot in any kind of public office.
What is a stipend.
300
Elected officials that are picked to protect the interests of the plebeians.
What is a tribune?
300
A government where a king or queen is in charge.
What is a monarchy?
400
This is the person who spread Christianity all the way to Rome.
Who is Paul?
400
A time in Roman society of great achievement and success.
What was the Pax-Romana?
400
A Greek fighting technique where there are many heavily armed foot soldiers march in a massive formation.
What is phalanx
400
when people go door to door, counting how many people live in the area to keep track of the population.
What is census?
400
When the leader rejects a created law or a proposal that has been requested to be put in order.
What is a veto?
500
This empire technically ended in 1,476 A.D. and was renamed the Byzantine empire.
What is the Roman empire?
500
The idea that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?
500
The banishing of a public figure that could possibly harm the government by the things that person would say.
What is ostracism?
500
Huge estates with lots of property bought by wealthy families.
What is latifundia?
500
when a small class is in control of the government.
What is an oligarchy?
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