Location, Location, Civilization
This river was essential to ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This form of government means “rule by the people.”
What is democracy?
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
Greek city-states were called this.
What are poleis?
This conflict was fought between Rome and Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
This sea connected most of the Roman Empire and allowed for trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Rome was ruled by elected leaders during this period.
What is the Roman Republic?
This term describes how people understand life, society, and their place in the world.
What is a worldview?
This city-state focused on military discipline and obedience.
What is Sparta?
This term describes a long period of peace and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
Geography helped civilizations grow by providing these three advantages.
What are natural resources, protection, and trade routes?
This Roman law code made laws public and written down.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This religion spread throughout the Roman Empire despite persecution.
What is Christianity?
This Greek historian is known as the “Father of History.”
Who is Herodotus?
This civilization developed the alphabet later used by the Romans.
Who are the Phoenicians?
This region was north of Gaul and remained difficult for Rome to control.
What is Germania?
Political corruption and power struggles helped cause the decline of this Roman system.
What is the Roman Republic?
Religion influenced civilizations by shaping these three areas.
What are laws, culture, and daily life?
This Greek cultural contribution still influences modern governments.
What is democracy?
This was one major reason for the decline of the Roman Republic.
What is political corruption or power struggles?
This geographic factor helped empires expand while also spreading ideas.
What are trade routes (or waterways)?
This Persian system divided the empire into provinces ruled by governors.
What are satrapies?
This Roman emperor legalized Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
This aspect of Greek culture influenced later civilizations the most.
What are philosophy, art, or government?
Geography and belief systems helped empires succeed by doing this.
What is unifying people and supporting expansion and control?