Vocabulary
To barter means...
to trade
Examples of geographical __________________ include rivers, lakes, oceans, mountains, deserts, valleys, and more.
Features
The sea surrounding the Greek peninsula was called...
The sea surrounding the Italian peninsula.
Mediterranean Sea
The king of the gods in the Greek religion was named...
Zeus
Agriculture means...
Farming
The Italian Alps are to the _____________ of the Italian Peninsula.
North
The Iliad and the Odyssey were both written by this man.
Homer
Rome had this form of democracy.
Representative democracy
Monotheism means...
The belief in one god.
Relating to government
Mountains, deserts, and oceans are considered __________________________ because they are difficult to travel through.
natural barriers
The Parthenon
This ruler was assassinated by approximately 60 members of the Roman Senate.
Julius Caesar
These games were created to honor the god Zeus.
Olympic Games
A peninsula is...
a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
This peninsula was where Sparta was located.
The Peloponnesian peninsula
Athens was the first place in the ancient world to have this form of government called...
Direct democracy
The legislative branch in the government of Ancient Rome focused on what?
Creating and passing laws.
Except for Judaism, all the religions we have learned about had many gods which means they were...
Polytheistic
A deity is...
a god.
This ancient civilization had mountainous terrain which forced it to colonize.
Greece
Philosophers
In both ancient Greece and Rome, their deities were similar to and acted like...
Humans