Geography
Vocabulary
Republic
US vs Rome
Fall of Rome
100

The river Rome was founded on.

What is the Tiber River?

100

Professional fighters who fought at the Colosseum.

Who are gladiators?

100
A type of government in which citizens vote for their leaders.

What is a republic?

100

The leader of the executive branch in the United States, who is the commander and chief of the Army and can veto laws.

Who is the president?

100

The city of Rome was invaded in this year.

What is 476 CE?

200

The mountain range that runs down the center of the Italian peninsula.

What is the Apennine mountains?

200

This means to punish someone for their religious beliefs.

What is persecute?

200

The branch of government that is run by the consuls, who run the military and veto laws.

What is the executive branch?

200
In the United States, there are ___ senators that make the laws with the House of Representatives.

What is 100?

200

This economic $$ problem weakened the Roman Empire when people lost their jobs to people who were forced to work for free. 

What is slavery?

300

The name of the sea that connects Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. 

What is the Mediterranean sea?

300

The belief in ONE god.

What is monotheism?

300

This means to reject a law.

What is veto?

300

In the Roman Republic, the ______ elected the consuls.

What is the Assembly or plebeians?

300

This political problem weakened the Roman Empire because poor decisions were made. 

What are bad emperors?

400

The peninsula that the city of Rome is located on.

What is the Italian peninsula?

400

This was built by the Romans to transport water from water sources to the cities.

What is an aqueduct?

400

The branch of the government run by the Senate (patricians) and the Assembly (plebeians), who made the laws.

What is the Legislative branch?

400
In the United States, the judges in the Judicial branch serve for ______.

What is life?

400

This geographic problem led to the fall of the Roman Empire. 

What is the empire split into two parts, the Western and Eastern empire?

500

The mountain range north of the Italian peninsula. 

What is the Alps mountains?

500

To murder someone for political reasons, like Julius Caesar was in 44 BCE.

What is assassinate?

500

The branch of government run by the judges.

What is the Judicial branch?

500

In the United States, the president is elected by ____.

Who are the citizens?

500

They invaded Rome and caused it to collapse.

Who are the Visigoths and Odavacer?