Greece
This was Greece’s greatest natural resource.
What is the sea?
Style of government that had involved the people selecting their leaders.
What is a republic?
This is a body of land surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
A ruler who is in charge of every aspect of government.
What is a dictator?
Almost 75% of Greece is covered by these landforms.
What are mountains?
Two Greek city-states that were always fighting against one another.
What is Sparta & Athens?
Ancient Rome began as a group of villages along this river.
What is the Tiber River?
Name the sea that borders Europe to the South.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Irrigation system invented by the Romans to bring fresh water to far away parts of the Empire.
What are aqueducts?
Name the three seas that surround Greece.
What are the Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas?
The ancient Greeks were polytheistic, which means this.
What is they believed in many gods?
This was the most powerful ruling body in ancient Rome.
What is the Roman Senate?
Name the two oceans that border Europe.
What are the Arctic and Atlantic?
The Romans called the Mediterranean Sea “mare nostrum” for this reason ...
The Romans controlled most of the land surrounding the Mediterranean and therefore called it “mare nostrum” which means our sea.
Greece is made up of a mainland and over 1000 of these.
What are islands?
All of the Greek city-states shared the same culture, language and religious beliefs, but had their own …
What is government and laws?
These people were wealthy, land-owning, relatives of the first settlers of Rome.
What are patricians?
These two countries make up the Iberian Peninsula.
What are Portugal and Spain?
This is how Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Constantine had a vision before going into a battle and promised to become a Christian if he won the battle, which he did; Christianity became the religion of Roman Empire.
The land of Greece could be best described as ...
What is mountainous, rocky, with poor soil.
What form of government developed here?
What is democracy?
This man was a famous General, Governor of Gaul and public speaker who became the dictator of Rome in 45 BC.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Name the two countries that extend into Asia.
What are Turkey and Russia?
This is how the Roman Empire helped and also hurt the spread of Christianity.
Helped: Christians used roads built by Romans to spread their religion
Hurt: Romans persecuted and even killed Christians, often blaming them for natural disasters
Italy is bordered to the North by ...
What is France, Switzerland and Austria?