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Persia/Vocab
Ancient Greece
Greek Legacies
Ancient Rome
Roman Legacies
100
This engineering feat promoted trade and unified the Persian Empire.
What is public road network?
100
Greece's mountainous geography led to the development of this type of isolated political communities, which Greek called polis.
What is a city-state?
100
Many buildings in Washington D.C. were built in the Greek style with this particularly Greek architectural feature.
What are columns?
100
This Roman general was assassinated on the floor of the Senate.
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
Rome's early type of representative government is known as this.
What is republic?
200
This Greek city-state battled the Persian Empire in a war made famous by the film 300.
What is Sparta?
200
This was the site of the ancient Olympic games.
What is Mount Olympus?
200
Euclid and Pythagoras made advances in this mathematical field?
What is geometry?
200
These warriors fought in Roman arenas for the entertainment of large audiences.
What are gladiators?
200
This architectural feature was important for Roman aqueducts and stadiums.
What are arches?
300
This religion was popular in Persia and argued that there were only two gods, the god of light and the god of darkness.
What is Zoroastrianism?
300
This military leader from Macedonia expanded Greece's power across Asia and Africa, leading to the spread of Hellenistic culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
300
These three philosophers laid the foundation for Greek philosophy and are still studied today.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
300
The 400 year period of peace was known by this Latin name.
What is the Pax Romana?
300
This group of people from modern day Israel was dispersed throughout the empire after their rebellion was put down by Rome.
Who are the Jews?
400
While Athens had a democracy, most Greek city-states consisted of this type of government in which a small group of wealthy people rule.
What is oligarchy?
400
This was the series of wars between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian Wars?
400
Greeks sculpted impressive statues of the human body using this material.
What is marble?
400
The Twelve Tables made every citizen equal under the law and were a compromise between these two social groups in Roman society.
Who are the patricians and plebians?
400
This missionary traveled across the Roman empire converting people to Christianity.
Who is Paul?
500
This term describes Socrates' method for gaining knowledge and wisdom.
What is dialogue
500
This goddess of wisdom and strategic war had a statue in the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Greece's capital city.
Who is Athena?
500
The fusion of Greek ideas with the ideas and styles of the Middle East and India produced this type of culture.
What is Hellenistic culture?
500
He converted to Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
500
Two of Rome's greatest legal legacies were the right to a trial by jury and this concept still used by courts today.
What is the accused is innocent until proven guilty?