A body of land surrounded by water on three sides is called a ____________________.
What is a peninsula?
100
In ancient Greece, the chief rival of Sparta was ____________.
What is Athens?
100
In ancient Rome, the most powerful ruling body of the government was _______________________.
What was the Senate?
100
In the Middle Ages, workers in the same trade sometimes joined a business association called ______________.
What is a guild?
100
He ruled the Roman Empire for 40 years and established the "Pax Romana".
Who was Augustus Caesar?
200
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea is called a __________________.
What is a fjord?
200
A limited form of government where the people have the authority to make the laws, either directly (as in ancient Athens), or through their elected representatives is called ______________________.
What is a democracy?
200
A term that refers to a nation in which citizens govern themselves through elected representatives is a ____________________.
What is a Republic?
200
Under this medieval system, the lord of the manor received food and labor from the peasants in exchange for protection.
What is manorialism?
200
He took control of Rome in 46 B.C., became a dictator, and was killed two years later.
Who was Julius Caesar?
300
A body of water that lies along the southern coast of Europe is ____________________.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
A system of government ruled by a few wealthy individuals, as in ancient Sparta, is ______________________.
What is an oligarchy?
300
In ancient Rome, a wealthy landowner was called ________________________.
What is a patrician?
300
A term that refers to a political system used by nobles in the Middle Ages where nobles gave land to vassals in return for services was ______________________.
What is feudalism?
300
The first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire was ___________________________.
Who was Constantine?
400
The natural barrier that separates the continents of Europe and Asia is _______________________.
What are the Ural Mountains?
400
The person who took control of Greece when King Philip II of Macedonia died was ________________________.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
A normal working man in ancient Rome was called ____________________________.
What is a plebeian?
400
He became the Holy Roman Emperor in 800 A.D.
Who was Charlemagne?
400
He was the Greek philosopher who studied with Plato and was the teacher of Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?
500
A term that refers to a nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader is called __________________.
What is an empire?
500
A term that refers to the central city of a city-state in ancient Greece was ____________________.
What is a polis?
500
A period of peace that lasted for 200 years beginning during the reign of Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome was _________________________________.
What was the Pax Romana?
500
A document that was signed by King John of England in 1215 A.D. which limited the power of the king was ___________________________.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
He was an important philosopher in Greece during the fifth century B.C. and was forced to drink poison as punishment for spreading "dangerous" ideas.