Civilizations & Religion
These are three features of a civilization.
What are job specialization, cities, public work, writing, religion, arts & architecture, social class, and organized government?
These are the 3 continents that the Roman Empire was located on.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
This is where Vikings were from.
What is Scandinavia? (Denmark, Norway, Sweden)
This is the full name for the acronym C.E.
What is Common Era?
This is the full name for the acronym B.C.E.
What is Before Common Era?
This is the feature of a civilization that would focus on the building and maintenance of water systems, road systems, government buildings, etc.
What is public works?
This is the area/region of the Roman Empire that was desirable for its temperate climate and fertile soil.
What is the Mediterranean?
He was the emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Constantine?
The Greeks and Romans studied this which helped to advance ideas in architecture, science, medicine, etc.
What is philosophy?
The Vikings believed this was the “outer sea” that surrounded the 3 continents.
What is Uthaf?
These are three features of a civilization that have not yet been named.
What are job specialization, cities, public work, writing, religion, arts & architecture, social class, and organized government?
This is how we know that Romans were literate people.
What is that they wrote thousands of books and great libraries were filled with ancient works.
This is how much longer the Byzantine Empire lasted beyond the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is 1000 years?
This is a person sent out by a church to convert people.
What is a missionary?
These are one of the European non-Roman peoples, ex. Visigoths
What are Germanic peoples?
This is the reason it is important to study religion in relation to history
What is because it has influenced a lot of events throughout history, both in good and bad ways?
These are the 3 groups of citizens that were not recognized under Roman Law.
Who are women, non-Romans, and slaves?
These are the stories told by Vikings to pass down their history.
What are sagas?
This is the land “discovered” by Leif Erikson, believed to be modern day Newfoundland.
What is Vinland?
These are supernatural beings that control some aspect of the world.
What are deities?
These are the 5 major religions of the world.
What are Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism?
This is one reason that Rome fell.
What is:
Small businesses suffered when Romans began using slaves to supply goods and services?
Romans spent more money that they should have on entertainment and expensive luxuries?
Contagious diseases, brought to Rome by soldiers in the Roman legions, killed thousands?
After the Roman Republic ended in 30 BCE, Rome was ruled by emperors rather than a government that respected individual freedom?
Because the empire was so large and contained such a wide variety of terrain, the empire became impossible to defend?
New religions weakened the will of the Roman people to defend their empire, because many chose their new religion over Rome?
The empire grew weak because of repeated attacks by the Germanic peoples?
These are the 3 places explored by the Vikings ACROSS the Atlantic Ocean.
What are Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland/North America?
These are people who do not believe that god(s) exist.
Who are atheists?
This is someone who neither believe nor disbelieve in god(s).
What is agnostic?