Nordic Countries, British Isles, Western Europe, Mediterranean Europe, and Eastern Europe
What are the regions of Europe?
100
A system in which all citizens participated directly in government.
What is direct democracy?
100
believed to be the father of all the gods by the Greeks.
Who is Zeus?
100
Built by the Romans to link the large Empire and its provinces. These were very straight, well-built, and safe. They also made trade easier.
What are Roman roads?
100
The Roman Empire became too large, it could not provide needed leadership, and rival leaders battled one another for power.
What are the causes of the fall of the Roman Emire?
200
The sea located in the heart of Mediterranean Europe that made trade possible
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
A system of government build on democratic principles in which people elect representatives to carry out their wishes in the government
What is a republic?
200
A greek play in which a major character suffers a disaster.
What is a tragedy?
200
Allowed the Romans to expand their empire because of their organization and strategies.
What is the Roman Army?
200
The Roman Empire was divided into these two halves in an attempt to save the Empire. One was ruled by Rome and one was ruled by Constantinople.
What are the Eastern and Western halves?
300
This is located on the Italian Pennisula and the heart of the Roman Empire.
What is Rome?
300
A government under law.
What is a constitutional government?
300
An outdoor theatre in Athens where Greeks held plays and whose columns can still be seen. The architecture of this structure influenced many government buildings today.
What is the Parthenon?
300
These was created by the Romans to carry waste out of the cities and clean water into the cities because of they deeply valued good hygiene.
What are aqueducts?
300
The system of government that the Romans turned to during the middle ages in which there was a king, lords, vassals, knights, and serfs.
What is Feudalism?
400
City-state located in Greece where the Greek government was centered.
What is Athens?
400
A binding agreement with God
What is a covenant?
400
These people laid the foundations of modern scientific method, made basic discoveries in medicine, mathematics, and astronomy.
Who are Greek philosophers?
400
Army units that numbered about 6,000 men each, and then were also divided into smaller units.
What are legions?
400
Warrior king of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages who was accredited with uniting Western Europe.
Who is Charlemagne?
500
Modern-day France.
What is Gaul?
500
hilltop fortress at the center of each city-state that served as the meeting place or "town hall" for government.
What is an acropolis?
500
Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, Ephesus, Troy, Delphi, Marathon, Sparta, etc.
What are the city-states of Ancient Greece?
500
This was built to keep out the Scotts when the Romans were unable to defeat them.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
500
Became the single unifying force in Europe during the Middle Ages, holding great political power on the continent.