Ancient Greece
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of the people
What is a democracy?
One weakness that led to the fall of Rome is that they never found a good way to transfer this
What is ruling power?
A person that works for an expert in a trade or craft in return for training
What is an apprentice?
Someone who commissioned (ordered and paid for) new buildings and art
What is a patron?
a French philosopher who advocated for freedom of speech and religion
Who is Voltaire?
This type of landform is surrounded by water on three sides (Greece is an example)
What is a peninsula?
These feats of engineering brought water to the city of Rome from 60 miles away
What are aqueducts?
An organization of people in the same craft or trade
What is a guild?
The type of art that showed full backgrounds and perspective, as well as faces with emotion
What is Renaissance art?
the person who would say that if government was left to the people, life would be "nasty, brutish, and short"
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What is farmland?
The development of this material allowed Romans to build bigger arches than anyone before them
What is concrete?
Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service is called this
What is a fief?
An independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
this philosopher fought for the rights of the accused
Who was Beccaria?
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of a few people
What is an oligarchy?
This happened in 476 C.E., and is often considered to mark the fall of Rome
What was the last emperor in Rome being removed?
The economic and political system that kept the order of society during the Middle Ages
What was feudalism?
A philosophy that became popular during the Renaissance regarding belief in the worth and potential of all individuals
What is humanism?
This theory by Ptolomy stated that Earth stayed in one fixed place
What is the geocentric theory?
The 5 themes of geography
What are movement, region, human-environment interactions, location, and place?
This Roman emperor freed Christians to worship openly
Who is Constantine?
The belief that god gives monarchs the right to rule
What is divine right?
A series of religious wars during the medieval period that resulted in learning being brought back from the East
What are the Crusades?
This man was first to propose the heliocentric theory of the universe
Who was Copernicus?