Vocabulary
Rome
Greece
Other Civilizations
Grab Bag
100
The belief in many gods
What is polythesim
100
Where is Rome located
What is on the Italian Peninsula near the Tiber River?
100
The form of government in which people have a say in their government
What is democracy?
100
Most were early religions believed in
What is many gods
100
The continent in which the earliest human remains were found
What is Africa
200
The belief in one god
What is monotheism
200
Two chief officials that led the Roman Republic government
What is the consuls
200
How did the geography impact life in ancient Greece
What is mountain made travel difficult and separated city states; rocky soil made farming difficult which caused the Greeks to set colonies
200
In an Egypt the Pharaoh the was the king but was believed to be
What is a god
200
How did fire impact early people
What is it allowed them to move to colder climates?
300
God like kings in ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
300
Describe the difference between plebeians and patricians in the Roman Republic
What is patricians were the rich upper class that could participate in government; the plebeians were the lower class that had limited ways in which they could participate in government.
300
Who was Alexander the Great?
What is a prince from Macedonia who conquered Greece; who spread Greek culture through out his empire
300
Cuneiform and hieroglyphics were similar because
What is they were written by scribes, used symbols and were used to write government and religious documents
300
The major difference between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age
What is how people obtained food; Paleolithic age people were hunters and gathers- Neolithic Age people began farming
400
The scattering of people who have a common background or beliefs
What is Dispora
400
What contributed to the expansion of the Roman Empire
What is location, war and military strength?
400
What was the Golden Age of Athens?
What is a time when Athens was very successful at its height including building projects a strong government
400
Judaism is
What is a monotheistic religion which influenced Christianity and Islam?
400
What created social classes
What is job specialization?
500
Form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines; used in the Fertile Crescent
What is Cuneiform?
500
The causes of the fall of Rome
What is Political, social and economic and military problems... the immediate cause was the invasion by Germanic tribes and by Huns
500
Who had responsibilities for running the government in ancient Greece
What is all people were expected to follow the laws and participate when allowed
500
Which group did the Greeks copy their alphabet from
What is the Phoenicians?
500
How did the Agriculture revolution impact population
What is the population increased because people had a stable food supply?
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