This word is derived from the Greek "monos" (alone) and "polein" (to sell) and means: a situation in which one person has cornered the market in a particular commodity and is alone able to sell goods.
HINT: it is a popular board game.
What is MONOPOLY?
100
A major trading commodity whose Latin name is "Marmor".
What is Marble?
100
Derived from the word "moneta", this is how we pay for purchased goods.
What is MONEY?
100
Like the aqueducts and roads of Rome, public works were undertaken by publicani, or ______.
What are contractors?
100
Word with “liber” as a base meaning freedom from control.
What is LIBERTY?
200
This word is derived from Latin prefix "com-" (together) and "petere" (to seek; to look for) with the noun suffix "-tion" at the end.
What is COMPETITION?
200
A trading commodity from provenance China with the latin name "serica".
What is Silk?
200
Comes from Latin "commodum" meaning convencience and useful thing.
What is COMMODITY?
200
_____is the study of the properties of water in pipes and is derived from Greek hydr- ("water") and aulos ("pipes").
What is hydraulics?
200
Having the base “serv” meaning slave, this word means to be employed by another to domestic duties.
What is SERVANT?
300
Aristotle defined the state as a collection of households governed by 3 hierarchical relationships: DESPOTIC, MARITAL, and _________.
What is PATERNAL?
300
Latin word that such words as island, insulate, and insulin are derived from.
What is Insula?
300
Derived from Latin "finis" meaning end.
What is FINANCE?
300
The Greek word of "techne" meaning ___, ____, and ____ has produced words such as technology and technique.
What is art, craft, and skill?
300
Word built from “released from power”, “to send” + “from the hand” meaning that a slave was freed.
What is MANUMITTED?
400
The Romans weren't interested with theory but with economics. They understood price, money, sale etc in Roman law and were aware of the laws of supply and demand. What they didn't understand was the concept of _________, or the blowing up of or increase of prices.
HINT: Derived from Latin prefix in- (into) and verb flare (to blow).
What is INFLATION?
400
The provenances of the trading commodity grain.
What are Egypt, Sicily, Africa?
400
The Greek study of coinage.
What is NUMISMATICS?
400
Public contracts in Rome were awarded by the ____.
What is the censor?
400
Person born into slavery was referred to this by Romans.