The period of history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world.
What is the Middle Ages?
100
A large, flat area of land, usually without many trees.
What is a plain?
200
Citizens of this city-state had to remain in the army until they were 30 years old.
What is Sparta?
200
Stabbed Julius Caesar in the back.
Who was Brutus?
200
They lived outside the castle walls in small dwellings, often with dirt floors and straw roofs.
Who were peasants?
200
The mountains that divide Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
300
At the age of 17, he began studying philosophy with Plato.
Who was Aristotle?
300
Period of peace and cultural growth ushered by Augustus in Rome.
What is Pax Romana?
300
A document the nobles forced the English King to sign in 1215. (Many of our ideas of government come from this.)
What is the Magna Carta?
300
The two most important rivers in Western Europe (in regards to travel).
What are the Rhine and the Danube rivers?
400
The Ancient Greeks built several temples at the top of this.
What is the Acropolis?
400
The year when the law of twelve tables was written.
When is 450 B.C.?
400
Something that protects workers rights, sets wages and prices, and settles disputes.
What is a guild?
400
The average precipitation for the Great European Plain?
What is between 20-40 inches per year?
500
Controlled a strong empire and tried to conquer the Greek Peninsula many times.
Who are Persians?
500
Rome's founding is described in this famous poem.
What is the Aeneid?
500
A system of political ties in which the nobles such as kings gave out land to the less powerful nobles, such as knights, in return for vows made to the Lord.
What is feudalism?
500
A mountain range that separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of the continent.