Life in Grease
This was the first event in the Olympics, which started in classical Greece.
What is the marathon?
Spartan women were sometimes able to inherit property and had a higher social standing than in other societies. However, compared to Sparta, the Athenian women had little to none of this thing.
What are women’s rights?
This came first, either Rome or Greece.
What is Greece?
Before Rome grew into a Republic, and then an Empire, it was this.
What is a city-state?
This city-state was the first to use democracy, an essential form of government in modern-day society that allows all citizens to have a say.
What is Athens, Greece?
In Greece, only the rich were able to be educated in this city-state. This education is very similar to early Western education.
What is Athens?
Spartan life was centered around the military, while Athenian life was education-centered. However, in Sparta, some sickly children couldn’t fight or train; this happened to them.
What are death and abandonment?
As the Roman Empire evolved, these people were bought and sold for Roman economics and social life, but eventually were phased out and freed due to expenses.
Who are slaves?
Eventually, Rome turned into an Empire, which was ruled by this one person, who exerted large forces of power.
Who is the Emperor?
Greek thinkers were the basis of modern morality, and this metaphysical idea.
What is philosophy?
There were many poems written in Greece and Rome, which spread to Western societies. Homer, a poet, wrote these two major poems.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
After using the form of aristocracy, Athens adopted a new form of government, where citizens had a say in the government, while Sparta remained an aristocracy. This is the form of government that Athens adopted.
What is a democracy?
In the Roman Republic, the power was divided between two rulers and a group of people, which differed from other societies. These two rulers changed power every year.
Who are the consuls?
As Rome began to expand, conflict occurred with an empire called Carthage. Rome waged these three wars against Carthage, allowing the Romans to conquer much of North Africa and Spain.
What are the Punic Wars?
Under Augustus Caesar, public works were completed, which helped the common people. This was one of the works that carried water from place to place.
What is an aqueduct?
To keep a stable government, ancient Greece used specific types of government over time, creating a foundation for 21st-century politics. These three types of governments were used in early societies.
What are monarchies, democracies, and oligarchies?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This major sporting event unified Sparta and Athens for competition.
What are the Olympics?
Along with the two consuls, this group of people in the Roman government shared power.
What is the Senate?
The name of the lower class of Romans who originally had no political power but, through protest, eventually gained power through government officials.
Who are the plebeians?
In imperial Rome, measurements were standardized by the emperor, which created a rich and stable economy. This one method used to standardize measurements utilized casting.
What is a mold?
For entertainment in Greece, people would watch shows written by people on comedy, tragedy, and other genres, which are still shown in modern society. These people wrote these shows.
Who are playwrights?
Although the daily lives of Athens and Sparta differed, they allied to fight against the Persians. During the Battle of Salamis, this type of Athenian ship destroyed the Persians’ boats.
What is a trireme?
Roman culture and lifestyle were taken directly from this society.
Who are the Greeks?
After Julius Caesar died at the hands of the senate, a civil war ensued. These were the names of the leaders on each side.
Who are Marc Anthony and Augustus Caesar?
In Rome, slaves were a huge part of the culture and the population, which stripped many people of their rights. This was the percentage of slaves out of the total population in Rome.
What is 20%?