Geography of Classical West
What sea were Roman and Greek civilizations centered on?
Mediterranean Sea
Peninsula the Mayan civilization developed on
Yucatan
What type of government was Ancient Athens?
Direct Democracy
What type of government was Rome beginning in 509 BCE?
republic (representative / elected leaders)
Founder of Judaism and Christianity (two people)
Abraham and Jesus
What modern day country is the city of Rome located in?
Italy
What resource did Mayans not have in abundance which required them to find alternative ways to engineer their environment (reservoirs, cenotes, chultuns)
water
Who was the leader of Athens during its Golden Age?
Pericles?
Western
Martyr
What physical feature divided Greece into city-states?
mountains
Which of the following was not an innovation of the Mayas:Rubber, Temples / Pyramids, Calendar, Columns, Number Zero
Columns (Greek)
War fought between Athens and Sparta (led to decline of Greece)
Peloponnesian War
Name of the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire (survives another 1000 years)
Byzantine Empire
Sacred Book of Judaism and Christianity (two books)
Torah and Bible
What land was the Punic Wars fought over? (specifically state region / continent)
Carthage / North Africa
Word for the spread of Roman culture into new areas / imposing their culture on others (especially Western Europe)
Romanization
Name two philosophers in Greece during its Golden Age
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Name of Golden Age in the Roman Empire
Pax Romana
spread or dispersion of people from their homeland (especially Jewish people)
diaspora
What modern day country was Judaism and Christianity founded in?
Israel
Order that made persecution of Christians illegal (313 CE)
Edict of Milan
Alexander the Great left a legacy of cultural diffusion called
Hellenistic Culture
What was the legal code of Rome called?
Twelve Tables of Rome
The liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt in led by Moses was called the
Exodus