armed Roman fighter who fought against other men or wild animals as a spectator sport
100
dictator
Person who has absolute rule over a country
100
Two most influential early civilations in Europe? (1)
Two most famous city-states in ancient Greece? (3)
Ancient Greece and ancient Rome (1)
Athens and Sparta (3)
100
Define Renaissance (term)
Where did it begin? (15)
revival of learning based on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks
Italy (15)
100
Two names for the sickness that caused death of 1/4 of Europe's population beginning in 1348? (12)
bubonic plague
Black Death
200
barbarians
Rough uneducated people
200
polis
City-State in ancient Greece
200
Leader from Macedonia who conquered Greece in the 300s BC and became the ruler of Europe's first great empire? (4)
Alexander the Great
200
How long did the Renaissance last? What were the dates? (14)
300 years: early 1300s to late 1500s
200
Name of the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Refomation? (11)
Middle Ages
Dark Ages
medevial period
300
patrician
person from a wealthy and distinguished family in the Roman Republic
300
plebian
common person (farmer, peasant) of the Roman Republic
300
200 year period of peace during the early Roman Empire? (6)
Pax Romana
300
What ancient cultures did people of the Renaissance try to model themselves after? (16)
Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations
300
4 individual nations what gained power as feudalism declined? (13)
England
France
Portugal
Spain
400
pedagogue
Well-educated slave who looked after a Greek boy, making sure he did his schoolwork and behaved himself
400
helots
serfs of ancient Greece (Sparta) who were neither free nor slaves
400
High point of Greek civilation? (2)
Time period of Roman civilization? (5)
400 and 300s BC (2)
200s BC - AD 400s (5)
400
What invention in the 1440s helped spread the ideas of the Renaissance? (17)
Who invented it?
What was it first used for? (18)
The movable type printing press. (17)
Johannes Gutenberg. (17)
The first book printed on it was the Bible. (18)
400
Religion that began in Palestine during the Roman Empire? (7)
Christianity
500
feudalism
medieval way of life involving castles, kings, knights, lords, peasants, etc.
500
Crusades
a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
500
What were the two parts of the divided Roman empire called? What were their capitals?
Western Roman Empire (capital Rome)
Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire (Capital Constantinople)
500
Define Reformation (term)
Revival of learning and study of Scripture leading to a reforming of the Roman Catholic Church and resulting in the establishment of Protestant churches.
500
Barbarian tribes who invaded the Roman empire (leading to it's fall) and what they conquered? (8)
Angles, Jutes, and Saxons: Great Britian
Vandals: Spain
Visigoths: Italian peninsula and Rome
Franks: France