Rome: Republic to Empire
This term describes Rome’s earlier form of government where citizens elected leaders to represent them.
What is the Roman Republic?
This large body of water surrounds much of Italy and was key to Roman trade and expansion.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
In Roman society, this group made up the wealthy upper class and often held power in the Senate.
Who are patricians?
This is the term for a religion with one central god.
This peninsula is considered the geographic heartland of the Mayan Civilization.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This leader of the Qin Dynasty united the Warring States.
This was the largest and most powerful Mayan city-state.
What is Tikal?
Julius Caesar gained tremendous wealth and military support during his conquest of this Roman province.
What is Gaul?
The Romans were connected to this extensive network of trade routes which helped bring exotic products to Rome.
What is the Silk Road?
This term refers to the common people of Rome, including farmers, artisans, and merchants.
Who are plebeians?
This religion grew within the Roman Empire and led to cultural fractures.
What is Christianity?
This term refers to the region of the Americas that includes Mexico and Central America, where the Maya developed.
What is Mesoamerica?
Ashoka converted to Buddhism following this famous battle.
What is the Battle of Kalinga?
The Roman province of Britannia is what modern-day country?
What is England?
After years of civil war, this leader took control in 27 BCE and became Rome’s first emperor.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
Rome is located on this boot-shaped landform that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
What are aqueducts?
This order, issued in the early 300s CE, granted religious tolerance to Christians in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
Many historians believe one of the causes of the fall of the Classical Maya was drought, which eventually led to a lack of food, also called what?
What is famine?
At its peak, Athens was the leader of this league of city-states.
What is the Delian League?
Boudicca was a tribal queen who rebelled against Rome. In what modern-day country did her rebellion take place?
What is England?
These two top officials ran the government and commanded the army in the Roman Republic, serving for one year.
Who are consuls?
This North African city, Rome’s rival in the Punic Wars, gave Rome access to new trade routes when it was defeated.
What is Carthage?
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the eastern half continued and became known by this name.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
These groups from northern and eastern Europe invaded the western half of the Roman Empire in the 400s CE.
Who are Germanic tribes?
While they did not have a unified empire, the Maya were organized into these political units, often at war with one another (like Tikal and Calakmul).
What are city-states?
The Silk Road originated during this Chinese Dynasty.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This Mesoamerican civilization was central to the development of the later Maya, influencing their calendar, writing, and religion.
Who are the Olmec?
Upon conquering Rome following a civil war, Julius Caesar declared himself "dictator for life." What is this phrase in Latin?
What is "dictato perpetuo?"
These mountains to the north of Italy helped protect Rome from some invasions, but not Hannibal's.
What are the Alps?
Roman soldiers were divided into groups. Groups of 5000 soldiers were called what?
What are Roman Legions?
This emperor moved the capital of the empire east and later converted to Christianity, changing Roman religion forever.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
The Maya created both a complex calendar and system of writing using these tiny pictures.
This Egyptian Dynasty was famously Hellenistic and ended with the death of Cleopatra.