Vocabulary
a social structure that was a king organized like a pyramid.
what is a feudal system?
who performed surgery in the middle ages?
Barbers
Romans used these to carry water to different parts of the empire.
what are aqueducts?
What Greek god did Athens worship the most?
Athena
who nailed 95 thesis to the door of the Roman Catholic church.
Martin Luther
An independent community that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
When were the middle ages?
500 - 1500 A.D.
People who were mostly wealthy landowners in ancient Rome.
Who were Patricians?
Did Athens start out with a Democracy, a Monarchy, or an Oligarchy?
Monarchy
what is it called when you an travel easily on waterways with boats and ships.
Navigable
a human-made water passage used for travel, shipping, and irrigation.
what are cannals?
who were lords / Nobles?
People who were mostly farmers in Ancient Rome
who were Plebeians?
what were Pericles three goals for Athens?
1) - Strengthen democracy
2) - Expand the empire
3) - Make Athens great again
what are the four land regions of Europe?
1) - Western Uplands
2) - Northern European Plain
3) - Central Uplands
4) - Alps
a period of wealth and power.
what is a Golden Age?
What is the feudal system?
- King
- Nobles / lords
- Vassals (knights)
- serfs
what were 3 things that the Roman Catholic church provided?
- early medicine - waged wars
- education - collected taxes
- government leader
He was the man who took and expanded his father's Empire in Greece after his father died in 340 B.C
who was Alexander the Great?
A group of upper-class noblemen.
what were aristocrats?
People who farmed the lord's land in return for shelter and protection.
who were serfs?
when was Napoleon defeated?
1815
according to legend, Rome was founded by tow brothers named ______ and ______.
Romulus and Remus
around 431 B.C Athens broke out in war with ______.
Sparta
in 1450 Johannes Gutenburg invents what machine?
the Printing press