The common people in ancient Rome. Most of the people in ancient Rome. They were the artisans, shopkeepers, and owners of small farms
What is a plebeian?
This form of government existed in Athens.
What is direct democracy?
This religion was polytheistic.
What is Hinduism?
This is a hatred of Jews.
What is antisemitism?
Wealthy landowner and member of the ruling class in ancient Rome. In early Rome, they were the only ones that could hold office.
What is a patrician?
This form of government existed in Sparta where only a few people hold the power.
What is an oligarchy?
A political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals.
What is feudalism?
The Church court that tried people for heresy.
What is the inquisition?
A form of government in which the leader is not a king or queen but someone put in office by citizens with the right to vote.
What is a republic?
This city-state's primary focus was military.
What is Sparta?
Early writing systems were primarily used for this.
What is recording trade?
This was how the Black Death spread.
What is along trade routes through fleas on black rats?
Rome’s first written code of laws and became the basis for all future Roman laws.
What is Twelve Tables?
Here boys learned literature, music and gymnastics.
What is Athens?
This was a disease that spread quickly and killed many.
What is the Black Plague (Death)?
This form of government was given to us from Greece.
What is a representative democracy?
These were the main reasons Rome fell.
What are weak government, declining economy, and social problems?
Here travel was forbidden except for war and they were distrusting of outsiders.
Where is Sparta?
In the middle ages the church had the power to do this _____________ and this ______________.
What is collect taxes and create laws?
These two events led to the fall of feudalism.
What are the Crusades and Black Death?