Five Themes of Geography
Washington, D.C. is 10 miles southeast of Rockville.
What is relative location?
Ancient Rome's society was separated mainly into these two groups of people.
Who are plebeians and patricians?
His assassination led to an outbreak of civil war.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Christianity has its roots (or developed out of) this religion.
What is Judaism?
He thought the Roman Empire had become too large for one man to govern effectively, so he divided it in two.
Who is Diocletian?
Landforms, climate, vegetation, and wildlife.
What are physical features of place?
Tribunes, who represented the interests of the plebeians, gained this power that allowed them to reject laws passed by the Senate.
What is veto?
This Roman innovation helped transport water from rural areas to cities.
What are aqueducts?
Christians faced this harsh treatment from the Romans for over 200 years.
What is persecution?
Constantine moved the capital to this major trading hub city located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe.
What is Byzantium?
The theme of movement explores how these three things move from place to place.
What are people, goods, and ideas?
Series of three conflicts fought between Rome and Carthage over control of the Mediterranean.
What are the Punic Wars?
What is the Colosseum?
Famous Christian missionary who wrote letters to spread the religion to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire.
Who is Paul?
The split of the Church in the east and west in 1054.
What is the Great Schism?
These two things are often used to find absolute location.
What are latitude and longitude?
The poor people of Rome gained more power when this set of laws was written down.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Roman emperors famously provided people with this to distract them from their daily problems and otherwise poor quality of life.
What are "bread and circuses"?
After seeing the cross in a dream and winning an important battle, Constantine legalized Christianity with this.
What is the Edict of Milan?
This emperor had his advisors simplify the old Roman Empire's laws--many of which had become far too contradictory and outdated.
Who is Justinian?
One example of the theme of human-environment interaction would be the cutting down of trees, which is known as this.
What is deforestation?
The influx of slaves during the Roman Republic's expansion caused this for many poor Romans.
What is unemployment?
Diluting the amount of silver used in these coins caused inflation in the Roman Empire.
What are denarii? (or denarius)
To allow someone to practice their beliefs even though they may not agree with your own is called this.
What is tolerance?
Theodora convinced her husband to stay rather than flee when these broke out in the city of Constantinople.
What are the Nika Riots?