Greece
Rome
Individuals
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
Body of water that separates Greece from Troy & Asia Minor.
What is the AEGEAN SEA
100
The majority of Roman citizens were
What is FARMERS
100
First Roman to make himself "Dictator for Life."
Who is JULIUS CAESAR
100
A person who takes power by force.
What is a TYRANT
100
Capital city of the Roman Empire.
What is ROME
200
TRUE OR FALSE: The Battle of Marathon briefly united the Greeks so they could defeat the Persians
What is TRUE
200
City in Egypt. Capital of the Hellenistic period.
What is ALEXANDRIA
200
”Father of History” who wrote of the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus
200
A public market and meeting place in ancient Greece.
What is an AGORA.
200
The ________ people were primarily sea traders from 1650BCE-1200BCE.
What are the Mycenaean.
300
Persia was weak and no longer the great power it once had been allowed _______ to conquer them.
Who is ALEXANDER THE GREAT
300
Religion that developed in Judea that led to the death of its Messiah on the cross.
What is CHRISTIANITY
300
Who made the greatest contribution toward setting Christianity on the road to becoming a world religion?
Who was PAUL
300
fortified hill of an ancient Greek city dedicated to the Gods
What is an acropolis
300
One of the two leaders of Persia defeated at the Battle of Marathon & again a decade later after the Spartan's slowed them at Thermopylae.
Who is DARIUS OR XERXES
400
The result of the Peloponnesian War caused what city-state to enter its "Golden Age?"
What is ATHENS
400
Name of one of the Barbarian groups that sacked Rome leading to its "fall" in 476CE.
What is Goths, Huns, Visagoths.
400
Greek Poet who wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is HOMER
400
A ruler with total power.
What is a dictator
400
What was a form of government in the Greek city-state where power was in the hands of the small, wealthy elite that came from the middle class?
What is oligarchy
500
In his book The Republic, what Greek Philosopher describes an ideal state ruled by a philosopher-king?
Who is PLATO
500
Civilization that Rome destroyed & took over in the three Punic Wars.
What is Carthage
500
Roman emperor who played his harp as Rome burned.
Who was NERO
500
Temple dedicated to the Gods in Ancient Greece.
What is a PARTHENON
500
Roman emperor ______ in A.D. 313 granted religious toleration to Christians.
Who is Constantine
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