Fall of the Empire
This caused high unemployment in the Roman Empire.
What is slavery?
This country greatly influenced the art of the Romans.
What is Greece / Who are the Greeks?
A pipe or raised channel built to carry water over a long distance
What is an aqueduct?
Someone trained to copy documents by hand.
What is a scribe?
The study of wisdom, knowledge, and the nature of reality
What is philosophy?
In this year, the last Roman Emperor was overthrown in the West.
What is 476CE?
A picture made up of small pieces of tile, glass, or colored stone
What is a mosaic?
Romans built 50,000 miles of these.
What are roads?
The official language of the Roman Empire
What is Latin?
The stoics valued these traits the most.
Rome was at it's height around this year.
What is 200 CE?
Scenes painted on the moist plaster of walls or ceilings with water-based paints.
What are frescoes?
A vault in the shape of a half-circle that rests on a circular wall.
What is a dome?
Latin influences modern English by using many of these.
What are prefixes and roots?
The Romans believed in a universal law of _______ that came from nature and that, by this natural law, every person had rights. Judges in Roman Courts tried to make just, or fair, decisions that respected people's rights.
What is justice?
Because of this, large numbers of Roman farmers moved to the cities.
What is: They could not compete with large landowners with slave labor.
This type of Roman art inspired future American artists to create similar pieces of American presidents and other famous people.
What are statues?
Name a modern building that is influenced by Roman architecture.
Answers may vary.
While the English alphabet has 26 letters, Latin has...
What is 23?
A Greek school of thought, especially popular in Rome and with the Roman elite.
What is stoicism?
The name of the Roman Emperor's private army.
What is the Praetorian Guard?
A thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, this period in history is known for reviving the Greco-Roman art style.
What is the Renaissance?
An architectural achievement created and made popular by the Romans. Renowned for it's beauty and strength, it has been a staple of architecture ever since, and copied all over the world.
What are arches?
The meaning of E Pluribus Unum.
Out of Many, One.
The idea of citizenship as both a _______ and a _______ has descended from ancient Rome.
What is privilege and responsibility?