Greece
Both Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome would expand their territory around what body of water?
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
What is the language spoken by the Romans, whose alphabet is the basis for many European languages today?
Latin
Which has lasted longer, the Roman Republic, or the United States?
The Roman Republic lasted longer than the United States. The Roman Republic existed from 509 BC to 27 BC, a total of 482 years. The United States has been in operation since 1789, and as of 2025, has been in operation for 236 years.
Though he was not technically the 1st emporer of Rome, he was loved by his citizens, but then assassinated by some of those closest to him in the Senate, his death put an end to the republic, who was he?
Julius Caesar
What is the political and economic partnership of 28 European countries that work together to promote peace, prosperity, and democratic values called?
The European Union
What city state was more dedicated to its military?
Sparta
What was the time of peace in the early Roman Empire, based on political unity and flourishing trade and communications called?
Pax Romana
What is the type of government that ancient Greece founded?
Democracy
His conquests would expand Greek culture and led to what would be known as Hellenistic culture?
Alexander the Great
What is a polis?
A city and its surrounding territory which functioned as an independent political and social unit in ancient Greece (a city-state in Ancient Greece)
What are 2 examples of what it meant to be Greek in ancient times?
Living in a polis, Gods and Goddesses, Olympics, Visiting the Agora
What are three ways the Roman Empire secured and maintained its power?
military force
economic growth
systems for law/systems for public order
Romanization
political flexibility/cultural flexibility
This was Rome's first government, power was in the hands of the people and they had elected representatives, much like we do in the United States
Republic
This war united the Greek poleis(city-states) against the enemy, and led to the rise of Athens as a powerful city state?
Persian War
What is Hellenism/ Hellenistic?
The blend of Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian art & ideas and culture that took hold in the Mediterranean world and beyond after Alexander the Great
What are 3 examples of arts or ideas that flourished during the Classical Greek era?
architecture, sculpture, poetry, theater, philosophy, mathematics, medicine
In Rome this was the type of government in which citizens elected representatives to rule on their behalf, which is also what we have in the United States today?
Republic
What are two groups excluded from democratic government in ancient Greece or Rome?
women (Greece and Rome)
metics (Athens)-a foreigner living in an ancient Greek city who had some of the privileges of citizenship.
helots (Sparta)-a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.
enslaved persons (Greece and Rome)
This was a major conflict between the two dominant city-states of ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta. The war, which involved nearly all other Greek city-states, resulted in a Spartan victory and the weakening of Athens, marking the end of the Golden Age of Greece.
Peloponnesian War
In ancient Greece, this was someone who seized power illegally but not necessarily unjustly?
Tyrant
Who was the philosopher who valued truth-seeking by asking questions?
Socrates
What are two examples of resistance to Rome’s government and empire by groups or people?
Elite women of Rome
Christians
Enslaved people’s uprisings in Sicily
Name three ways the governments of ancient Greece and Rome influenced the government of the United States:
Ancient Greece - rule of law, democracy, juries, voting
Ancient Rome - civic duty, rule of law, separation of powers, republic, voting, senators
These series of wars led to the destruction of Carthage and began Roman expansion?
Punic Wars
What is the form of government in which a small group of people hold power?
An Oligarchy