Greece
These two Greek countries were rivals.
What are Athens and Sparta?
The two brothers who founded Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
A period of time which lasted from 500 to 1500.
What were the Middle Ages?
A rebirth of art and learning that started in Italy and spread through Europe.
What was the Renaissance?
Farmed the lord's land in return for shelter and protection.
What were serfs?
The type of government Athens had and the U.S. has today.
What is a democracy?
The two main classes of people in the beginning of Rome.
What were Patricians and Plebeians?
In 1054, Christianity divided forming these to churches.
What are the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
A monk in Germany that was shocked by the practices of some priests.
Who was Martin Luther?
relax the penalty of sin
What are indulgences?
His three goals for Athens were to strengthen democracy, expand the empire, and make Athens beautiful.
Who was Pericles?
Bronze tablets that were the first official laws in Rome.
What were the Twelve Tables?
The most important leader in Western Europe who helped stop the fighting between the two types of churches.
Who was Charlemagne?
Focuses on human, rather than religious, values.
What is Humanism?
Makes a painting look as if it has three dimensions.
What is perspective?
King Philip the second's son, expanded the empire throughout much of the known world.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Rome's government.
What is a republic?
The system that organized determined your rank (King, Noble, Vassal, or Serf) in Western Europe.
What was the Feudal System?
The church's response to Martin Luther, a reform movement.
What was the Counter-Reformation?
An independent community that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
The Greek physician who changed the way doctors practice medicine by announcing that illnesses were not caused by evil spirits.
Who was Hippocrates?
Augustus Caesars true name.
What is Octavian.
Another name for the bubonic plague.
What is the black death?
The German inventor who developed the printing press.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
People who examine questions about the universe, searched for the truth.
What are philosophers?