Vocab
A government in which people can influence law and vote for representatives.
What is a democracy?
Wealthy landowners in the Roman Empire.
Who were patricians?
In 334 B.C. he became King and began to extend his father's empire.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Athens became a direct democracy in this year.
What is 508 B.C.?
Greece lies between these two peninsulas.
What are the Balkan and the Peloponnese?
This carried water to parts of the empire.
What are aqueducts?
The name for people who were mostly farmers in the Roman Empire.
Who were the plebeians?
According to an ancient legend, these two brothers founded Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
The Greeks defeated the Persian Empire in this year.
What is 490 B.C.?
This river provided water for farming and a route for trade that flows through Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
A social structure that was organized like a pyramid.
What is the Feudal System?
To veto a decision made by the other consul.
What is to reject?
He was the general who rose to power and became the sole ruler of Rome in 46 B.C.
Who was Julius Caesar?
The Empire divided into an Eastern Empire and a Western Empire in this year.
What is A.D. 395?
This city-state became very wealthy over time.
What is Rome?
To make a painting look as if it had three dimensions.
What is perspective?
The meaning of Pax Romana.
What is Roman peace?
What the Romans called German tribes.
Who were Barbarians?
The Renaissance began in this century.
What are the 1300s?
The location where Rome defeated the empire of Carthage.
Where is northern Africa?
A fee paid to the church to relax the penalty for a sin during the Middle Ages.
What are Indulgences?
Military expeditions undertaken to take back holy lands in Southwest Asia from Muslim control.
What are Crusades?
They farmed the land of the lords at the bottom of the pyramid.
Who were Serfs?
Augustus became emperor in this year.
What is 27 B.C.?
The two largest and most important Greek city-states.
What are Athens and Sparta?