Geography & Me & Miscellany
In Rome, these people served as chief executives of the government and commanders in chief of the army.
What are Consuls?
What is a republic?
This person was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth.
Who is Socrates?
This person may or may not have said "E tu Brute?"
Who is Caesar?
This leader is associated with the start of Pax Romana.
Who is Augustus?
What is Ancient Greece?
Rule by the best is called what?
What is an aristocracy?
His book The Republic articulated his vision for how to govern society.
Who is Plato?
The plebians demand for clear and transparent laws was answered with this document, posted in the Roman Forum.
What is the Twelve Tables?
This is made up of geographical territory, community, and political and economic independence?
What is a polis?
Ancient Rome was encircled by which Sea?
What is the Mediterreanean?
Rule by a few is called what?
What is oligarchy?
Believed government should focus on the common good.
These three made up the First Triumvirate.
Who is Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar?
This is the author of the Allegory of the Cave.
Who is Plato?
Name three reasons civilizations near water often thrive.
What is humans need water, travel, trade, fertile soil, etc.?
The type of government where power rests with the people.
What is democracy?
Pericles claimed in a funeral oration that this civilization's democracy was an example for the world.
What is Athenian democracy?
These three made up the Second Triumvirate.
Who is Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus?
What lesson was learned from the Mytilenean Revolt?
What are the dangers of impulsive governance in a direct democracy?
A political institution in ancient Rome, composed of patricians. The governing and advisory assembly that played a crucial role in the administration of the Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire.
What is the senate?
Greeks set up this type of governance, due to their isolated locations and mountainous terrain.
What are city-states?
Who was the first Emperor of Rome?
The Greeks would often decide to send someone away when they became too powerful or persuasive, a system known as...
What is ostracism?
Name one good thing about direct democracy and one area for growth.
What is Representation, participation is expected, and it can be chaotic and disorganized. In Ancient Greece, not particularly representative.