Europe Geography
What mountain range creates a natural boundary between the continents of Asia and Europe?
Ural Mts.
In what industry did the Industrial Revolution first take hold in Great Britain?
textiles
A member of a wealthy, landowning family who claimed to be able to trace its roots back to the founding of Rome.
patrician
A central city in a city-state in ancient Greece.
polis
In Greek mythology, what was a half-man and half-horse called?
centaur
Greece has more than 2000 ______________?
islands
What natural resource helped to power steam engines?
coal
Written around 450 B.C., these laws formed the foundation of Roman law.
The Law of the Twelve Tables
A person who acted as the voice of a Greek god.
oracle
Places in ancient Rome where Roman citizens bathed, relaxed, and socialized.
baths
What large sea is located south of Europe? By the end of the 2nd century B.C. Rome ruled most of the land surrounding this sea.
Mediterranean Sea
During the Industrial Revolution, how did the production of goods change?
Rome became a ____________ in 509B.C. This is a nation in which power belongs to the citizens who govern themselves through elected representatives.
republic
Olympus
A period of Roman peace and prosperity that lasted for approximately 200 years (from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D).
Pax Romana
What large country in Europe is also located in Asia?
Russia
The majority of the French population was part of what estate?
Third
aqueducts
What ancient Greek word means "rule by the people"?
democracy
Number of people who could view an event in the Coliseum.
50,000
Portugal shares the Iberian peninsula with what other European country?
Spain
TRUE or FALSE?
The primary cause of the French Revolution was the increasing dissatisfaction of the 1st estate.
False (Third Estate)
Julius Caesar's son Octavian became emperor of Rome in 27 B.C. What name/title did he take?
Augustus
Who was the god of the sea?
Poseidon
To honor their gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks created ___________. These are stories based on tradition and tell of the origin and nature of the world.
myths