Maps
What do maps show?
Maps show locations, physical features, and the relationships between them
What protected borders throughout the Roman Empire?
soldiers
Which term describes Roman artwork made from small pieces of tile, glass, or colored stone?
mosaic
This economic and political system rose up in response to attacks from groups like the Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars.
feudalism
For which achievement is Charlemagne most remembered?
Unifying of much of Europe
What line of latitude is the Equator?
0 degrees
Slow communication, outside raiding, decline in citizenship
Which engineering feat connected the city of Rome with territory throughout the empire?
Roads
A king gave his most important lords grants of land, which were known as what?
Fiefs
The Holy Roman Empire
What line of longitude is at 0 degrees?
The Prime Meridian
Which leader moved the capital of the Roman Empire away from Rome to the city of Constantinople?
Constantine
The Romans built aqueducts to carry what?
water
This group of people could not leave the land they were bound to.
serfs
What did Charlemagne love and promote?
Books and education
What does a map legend do?
Tells us what symbols, shapes, or colors on a map mean
What is a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government?
Empire
Which languages are most closely related to Latin?
What is the knight's code called?
Chivalry
What does Charlemagne mean?
Charles the Great
Northern
What is a pattern of illegal or immoral activities by government officials called?
corruption
Which feature of American democracy comes from the Romans?
A. All people are born equal.
B. Leaders are elected directly by the people.
C. Government is based on a written constitution.
D. Citizens have certain rights and responsibilities
D. Citizens have rights and responsibilities
Serfs, free peasants, knights, nobles and clergy, monarch.
The Franks grew powerful because of their new style of war that used what?
Knights on horseback