Five Themes of Geography
Washington, D.C. is 10 miles southeast of Rockville.
What is relative location?
The city of Rome was founded along this river.
What is the Tiber?
Series of three conflicts fought between Rome and Carthage over control of the Mediterranean.
What are the Punic Wars?
Christianity has its roots (or developed out of) this religion.
What is Judaism?
He thought the Roman Empire had become too large govern effectively and divided it in two.
Who is Diocletian?
Landforms, climate, vegetation, and wildlife.
What are human features of place?
This mountain range serves as a natural barrier as it separates the Italian Peninsula from the rest of Europe.
What are the Alps?
His assassination led to an outbreak of civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Christians faced this harsh treatment from the Romans for over 200 years.
What is persecution?
Constantinople became a major hub of trade as it was located between these two continents.
What is Europe and Asia?
The theme of movement explores how these three things move from place to place.
What are people, goods, and ideas?
Ancient Rome's society was separated mainly into these two groups of people.
Who are plebeians and patricians?
This Roman innovation helped transport water from rural areas to cities.
What are aqueducts?
This emperor legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire after seeing the cross in a dream.
Who is Constantine?
The split of the Church in the east and west in 1054.
Deforestation would fall under this theme.
What is human-environment interaction?
Tribunes, who represented the interests of the plebeians, gained this power that allowed them to reject laws passed by the Senate.
What is veto?
What is the Colosseum?
This emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Theodosius?
The organization and simplification of the old Roman Empire's laws that had become far too convoluted and outdated was called this.
What is Justinian's Code?
These two things are often used to find absolute location.
What are latitude and longitude?
Slave revolts, unemployment caused by the influx of slaves, and soldiers' allegiance to generals rather than Rome led to this.
What is the collapse of the Roman Republic?
Roman emperors famously provided people with this to distract them from their daily problems and otherwise poor quality of life.
What are "bread and circuses"?
To allow someone to practice their beliefs even though they may not agree with your own is called this.
What is tolerance?
Theodora convinced Justinian to stay rather than flee when these broke out in the city of Constantinople.
What are the Nika Riots?