The name of the hills and plateaus that served as natural barriers.
What is Highlands?
100
The center of city life in each city-state.
What is an acropolis?
100
The assassinated leader; Rome became an Empire after his death.
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
The question-and-answer technique developed by Socrates.
What is the Socratic Method.
100
The style of economy common in the Middle Ages.
What is the Manor Economy?
200
A piece of land bordered by waters on all sides but one.
What is a peninsula?
200
Government by a small privileged class; named after a philosopher.
What is an aristocracy?
200
The period of piece and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana
200
Wrote "The Republic" which were ideas about government where elected officials run the government.
Who is Plato?
200
The system where society is very organized and everyone knows their roles.
What is Feudal Society?
300
Greece and Rome exist in a ______ climate.
What is Mediterranean?
300
The name for democracy where all citizens participate in government directly rather than through elected representatives
What is direct democracy?
300
Name the two types of people in Roman society
What are the plebeians and patricians?
300
True or False- Plato loved the idea of direct democracy.
False. Direct Democracy contributed to Socrates' death.
300
The plague that wiped out 1/3rd of Europe
What is the bubonic plague?
400
The plains that are best for farming and agricultural resources
What are the lowlands?
400
The qualifications to be considered a "citizen" in Athens.
Had to be male.
Had to be born in Athens.
400
Name one reason Christianity spread in Rome.
Spread well because of systems of roads, unity of Empire, extensive commerce.
Message of hope inspired many.
400
One philosopher loved search for the meaning of life and internal truths like love, God, and morality.
The other philosopher loved the external world, like science, math, and reason and logic.
Who is Plato?
Who is Aristotle?
400
Name the members of Feudal society in order from top to bottom.
King
Lords
Vassals
Knights
Peasants
500
The longest river in Europe.
What is the Rhine?
500
The main way Greeks traded.
Used the sea.
500
Name one factor that contributed to the decline of Rome
Civil wars for the throne which weakened economy
Outsider invaders frequently attacking
Moving the capital from Rome to Byzantium
500
Name one contribution the Greeks made to society.
Architecture
Theater- drama and tragedy
Epic poems
History
500
True of False. The Church had much influence in every aspect of life in the Middle Ages.