Ancient Greece 1
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
What language did early Romans speak?
Latin.
Who was third to join Crassus and Pompey to form a coalition that historians call the First Triumvirate?
Julius Caesar.
What is the Latin word for emperor?
Imperator.
The culture Alexander spread through his conquests.
What is Greek culture?
The ruler of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
What happened to Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.?
He was assassinated by a group of leading senators.
What was the name of the person whom Julius Caesar and Antony fell deeply in love with?
Cleopatra VII.
What is the name of Rome's first code of laws?
The Twelve Tables.
Alexander created this as a result of his conquests.
What is an empire?
Home of the Greek gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
How did Cleopatra and Antony die?
They committed suicide after fleeing to Egypt.
This is the name of the donkey in "Shrek"
Who is Donkey?
At the age when boys were going into secondary schools, what were girls doing?
Getting married.
Most common name of a city founded by Alexander.
What is Alexandria?
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
Who was the first Roman emperor?
Octavian.
This character has short term memory loss in a Disney/Pixar movie.
Who is Dory?
Who was known as a military hero?
Pompey.
Alexander's tutor.
Who is Aristotle?
A government controlled by a few.
What is an oligarchy?
What two Roman groups were most noticeable in the social organization?
Patricians and Plebeians
Acting and plays.
What is drama?
When was Julius Caesar made dictator for life?
44 B.C.E.
The study of wisdom.
What is philosophy?