Government/Law
Rome's type of government
What is a representative democracy?
Large pipes that transported water over long distances to Roman cities
What is an aqueduct?
Had a 'golden thigh', scared of beans, & created a theorem for how to solve for the missing side of a right triangle
Who is Pythagoras?
Most decorative capital style of a Greek column
What is the corinthian?
Eratosthenes used shadows, a stick, & ratios
What is to calculate the circumference of Earth?
Greek jury trials lack this
What is a judge? What is female jurors?
Necessary for the connection (trade, control, & spread of culture) of the large Roman empire
What are roads?
His book, The Elements, is the 2nd most read book of all time & it's all about Geometry (math)!
Who is Euclid?
The velarium added shade to this Roman ampitheater
What is the Colosseum?
Said that it was ridiculous to think that Greek gods are punishing you with sickness
Who is Hippocrates?
Type of government created by the Greeks where citizens can vote directly on laws
What is a direct democracy?
Building material created by Romans that seemed to get stronger with time (used to build the Colosseum)
What is concrete?
Protected his shapes from the Roman army (not himself :-(... Even better, used math to create a war machine known as The Claw
Who is Archimedes?
You will watch this during noontime (the middle) of the Gladiator Games
What are public executions?
Rome's version of a constitution (laws & rights made public for all to access!)
What is the 12 Tables?
A protection against Roman consuls gaining too much power
What is having two of them? What is having veto power over one another? What is having to win re-election every year?
Roman engineering technique that allowed for wider & taller buildings to be built (includes a keystone block)
What are arches?
Created a walking lecture class, tutored Alexander the Great, & created the foundations for studying living things (biology)
Who is Aristotle?
What Roman gladiators will most likely NOT be viewed as
What are heroes?
Started the Trojan War between Sparta & Troy in Homer's The Iliad
What is Prince Paris taking Helen from Menelaus?
The US copied their idea of separating powers between three branches of government
Who is Rome?
Allowed for aqueducts to carry water over long distances with no use of electric pumps
What is gravity?
What Hipparchus studied
What are the stars? What is astronomy?
Author (orator) of an epic known as The Iliad
Who is Homer?
'Hero' of The Iliad
Who is Achilles?