Geography
This body of water is important to both Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This achievement of the Romans helped to bring fresh water into major cities and to farmlands throughout the empire.
What are aqueducts?
This Greek city-state was known for its emphasis on strength, duty and military power.
What is Sparta?
The Greeks are known for this contribution to politics, a government run by the people.
What is democracy?
These people began moving into the Roman Empire around the 2nd century AD and eventually attacked and conquered the city of Rome in 476 AD.
Who are the Germanic tribes?
At its greatest extent, the Roman Empire included territory on these three continents?
What is Europe, Africa and Asia?
The Romans invented this building material which allowed them to construct larger buildings and domes.
What is concrete?
This Greek city-state was known for its emphasis on art and philosophy.
What is Athens?
In the early days of Rome, before the empire was established, Rome was ruled by this type of government, in which people elected others to represent them.
What is a republic?
Aqueducts led to this problem in Roman society, which is linked to the decline of the empire.
What is lead poisoning?
The geography of Greece limited this, which meant the Greeks had to rely on trade.
What is agriculture?
This Greek mathematical achievement is still used in modern geometry to find measurements in triangles.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
What is slavery?
In Greece and Rome, this group had limited rights and was not allowed to participate in political life.
What are women?
Years of spending on extravagant building projects and constant wars led Roman emperors to increase these, cause economic decline.
What are taxes?
This mountain range to the north of Rome provided a natural barrier that allowed the Roman Republic to flourish.
What are the Alps?
Columns, such as those found on the Parthenon, and arches, like those found on the Colusseum, are examples of achievements in this area.
What is architecture?
The conquests of Alexander the Great were responsible for the creation of this, a blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptian and Indian cultures.
What is Hellenistic culture?
This was the code of laws established in early Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
In an effort to revive the once great Roman Empire, this emperor divided the empire into eastern and western portions which led to further decline in the west.
Diocletian
These independent political units formed in Ancient Greece largely due to the mountainous terrain.
What are city-states?
This language of the Romans is the basis for modern romance languages-Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian.
What is Latin?
The Greeks invented this art form which has influenced modern culture such as novels, movies and television programs.
What is drama?
Under Roman law, this tradition was established which is a key component of the American legal system, leaving the decision in cases to a group of your peers.
What is trial by jury?
Like the Roman Empire, this Chinese dynasty collapsed due overexpansion of territory and invasions by nomadic groups.
What is the Han Dynasty?