Ancient Rome
The center meeting area of a Roman city
What is the forum?
regions where there is flat, fertile land and location to water to begin agriculture.
What is a river valley?
Another name for city-state which acts like a small country with its own laws and style of government
What is polis?
made books and the potential for more literacy in Europe
What is the printing press?
Western Rome fell to barbarian invaders, however the other half did not.
What was the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire?
North Africa, Asia Minor, Europe
What are the regions or continents Rome’s territory covered?
A period of time after the Fall of Rome where knowledge and the security of Europe were lost.
What are the Dark Ages? (Or Medieval Period)
leader of Athens after the defeat of the Persians who took Athens into a "Golden Age" of prosperity and achievement
Who is Pericles?
Type of Art that reflects the ideals of Greece and Rome, but adds new color and perspective
What is Renaissance Art?
Signed in 1215 between King John and his nobles as a larger charter to re-establish individual rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
Patrician and Plebeian
What were Rome’s two social classes?
A religion that developed in Arabia and quickly spread to the Middle East, causing a series of religious wars.
What is Islam?
the blending of Greek culture with Persian, Indian, and Egyptian influences
What is Hellenistic?
Due to the Reformation, the Catholic Church actually divided into two denominations.
What are Catholic and Protestant?
The printing press, the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution
What is the Modern Era?
An example of dome and arch engineering still standing today in Rome.
What is the pantheon?
As a result of soldiers and ships returning from these religious wars, Europe's population was devastated by 1/3 to 1/2 BUT also creating opportunity for those common people who survived.
What is the Bubonic Plauge?
one battle on land and the other at sea, both Greek victories against Persia.
What are Platea and Salamis?
A legislative body that developed after England's King approached the commoners to support him in government and vote to pay for his wars.
What is parliament?
The beginning of mass production and factories
What is industrialization?
Senate and Tribune
Who are the representatives in Rome’s government for the patricians and also the plebeians?
people that share common beliefs, traits, ways of dressing, similar practices of hunting, or a shared understanding of the world around them
What is culture?
A form of government in which citizens vote directly for the city-state’s policies and not through representatives
What is direct democracy?
Just before the modern era, European society had formed this social hierarchy after the Holy Roman Empire...or land and protection in return for service.
What is Feudalism?
The House of Lords and House of Commons
What is England’s parliament?