We remember the seafaring civilizations of Minoa and Mycenae because they were so good at building these and the technology was used by the Greek city states to dominate trade in the Mediterranean.
What are ships?
100
It is the reason plebeians wanted laws written down.
What is so that the patricians couldn't change them.
100
Because they both wanted to control this, Rome and Carthage fought for control of the Mediterranean during the first Punic War.
What is trade?
100
Because Rome had ideal climate conditions, it could grow a wide variety of these.
What are crops?
100
It is a curved, semi-circular top of a building.
What is a dome?
200
Because Greece was separated by islands, peninsulas, mountains, and hills, they developed these separate communities that were partly like towns and partly like countries.
What are city-states?
200
Though the Roman Republic had a system of checks and balances and a written code of laws, plebeians and patricians did not have this, meaning they were not treated the same under the law.
What is equality?
200
The Roman trade network grew because Romans needed this from other parts of the Mediterranean.
What is food.
200
Rome was built on seven steep hills, which made this with outsiders difficult.
What is trade?
200
More than half of the words in the English language come from this language spoken by the Romans.
What is Latin?
300
Because most Greeks lived on these, many of them became fishers and sailors.
What are islands? (or peninsulas, or coastlines)
300
The assemblies and tribunes were representatives under this Roman government.
What is Republic?
300
The location of the Byzantine Empire allowed them to control trade between these two bodies of water.
What are the Mediterranean and Black Seas?
300
This empire adopted Christianity and ensured its survival.
What is Byzantine?
300
Rome used these to redirect rivers and carry water into their cities.
What are aquaducts?
400
The Minoans and Mycenaeans had to become great shipbuilders because they lived on small islands in the center of this sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
400
It was the way Octavian became Rome's first emperor.
What is killing his rivals in battle?
400
It was the main language spoken in Rome.
What is Latin?
400
Pyramids did not come from Rome, but from here.
What is Egypt?
400
The Circus Maximus is the largest of these ever built. It held 250,000 people.
What is a stadium?
500
Even though Greeks were separated into city-states that each had its own customs, laws, and lifestyles, the common thread was that they all spoke this language.
What is Greek?
500
The Caesars of Rome were this type of ruler, who takes power by force and rules alone.
What is a dictator?
500
Romans took their mythology from this ancient culture.
What is Greece?
500
After the big split, Rome was the western half of the empire, and this was the eastern half.
What is The Byzantine Empire?
500
In the U.S. it is comprised of 100 powerful people; in Rome it was comprised of 300 men who ruled the city.