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Geography and Climate
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Middle Ages
Vocabulary
100
A body of land surrounded by water om three sides
What is a peninsula
100
A central city in ancient Greece
What is a polis
100
A common citizen of ancient Rome
What is a plebeian
100
The period between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world
What is Medieval
100
A person who studies and thinks about the world
What is a philosopher
200
A deep inlet of sea between two cliffs
What is a fjord
200
In ancient Greece, the chief rival of Sparta
What is Athens
200
Ruled the Roman Empire for 40 years and established the "Pax Romana"
Who is Augustus
200
Made Charlemagne the emperor of Rome
Who is the Pope
200
A central city and nearby villages that shared a government and laws
What is a city-state
300
This causes most of Europe to have a mild climate
What is the Gulf Stream
300
The Greek Philosopher who taught Alexander the Great
Who is Aristotle
300
Took control of Rome in 45 B.C.
Who is Julius Caesar
300
In the middle ages, workers in the same trade sometimes joined a business association called this
What is a guild
300
A kind of government in which people rule through elected representatives
What is a republic
400
The mountain range that formed a natural barrier and seperated Europe and Asia
What is the Ural Mountains
400
A system of government ruled by a few wealthy individuals
What is an oligarchy
400
The first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Who is Charlemagne
400
Under this medevial system, nobles gave land to vassals in return for services
What is feudalism
400
The most powerful group of representatives in the Roman government
What is the Senate
500
The mountains that seperate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe
What is the Pyrenees
500
A philosopher who wrote about government, mathematics, and astronomy and was the student of Socrates
Who is Plato
500
A Roman emperor who promised to become a Christian if he won a battle
Who is Constantine
500
A system in which a lord protected peasants who worked on his land and gave him food
What is manorialism
500
A member of a wealthy landowning family in ancient Rome
What is a patrician