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Pax Romana
Greece
100
a poor shopkeeper or farmer
What is a plebeian?
100
Government leaders are elected into office.
What is a republic?
100
Rome's first Emperor
Who is Augustus?
100
The Latin words that mean, "Roman Peace".
What is Pax Romana?
100
Festival in honor of Zeus.
What are the Olympics?
200
a man from a wealthy family in Rome.
What is a patrician?
200
A rapid increase in prices
What is inflation?
200
Egyptian Queen who fell in love with both Caesar and Mark Antony?
Who is Cleopatra?
200
To connect the Roman Empire faster and easier.
What is the Roman road system?
200
City-state with a military culture.
What is Sparta?
300
One of two elected Roman leaders in Rome.
What is a consul?
300
Sheltered places along the coast.
What is a harbor?
300

Was assassinated on the Ides of March

Who is Julius Caesar?

300

a major arena in Rome, where gladiators fought

What is the Circus Maximus or the Colosseum?

300

Won the Peloponnesian War

Who is Sparta?

400
a slave forced to fight to the death for Roman entertainment
What is gladiator?
400
Another name for a tidal wave.
What is a tsunami?
400

Moved the capital city of Rome to Byzantium and renamed it.

Who is Constantine?

400
A long structure built to bring freshwater into the cities.
What is an aqueduct?
400

The blind Greek poet who wrote the Iliad

Who was Homer?

500
a war between two groups of the same country.
What is a civil war?
500
People that were "lovers of wisdom" that studied history, political science, science, and mathematics.
What are philosophers?
500

Created the largest empire in the world

Who is Alexander the Great?

500
A count of the population.
What is a census?
500

The Dorians had stronger weapons made out of this material.

What is iron?

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