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Greeks
Roman Geography
Roman Government
War
Culture
100
Because Greece is comprised of islands and peninsulas, many Greek men did this to make their living.
What is fish?
100
Because of this, Romans were able to grow a wide variety of crops.
What is their ideal climate (or Mediterranean climate)
100
This type of democracy was practiced by the assemblies and tributes of Rome.
What is representative democracy?
100
It was over this issue that the first war between Rome and Carthage was fought.
What is control of the Mediterranean.
100
It was the first Christian empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
200
Because the Minoans and Mycenaeans lived near the sea, they became adept at building these, a technology later borrowed by the Greeks.
What is ships (or boats)?
200
The Constantinople was strategically placed between these two seas.
What are the Black Sea and Mediterranean?
200
Because the patricians changed laws often without telling anyone, the plebs wanted them to do this.
What is write laws down?
200
This civilization is famous for building the pyramids.
What is Egypt?
300
This type of government is ruled by a small group as a result of their nobility, wealth, or election.
What is oligarchy?
300
Because the Romans could not grow enough food to feed their growing city, they had to start doing this with outsiders.
What is trade?
300
Octavian got his power this way and forever changed the way that Roman Caesars would take power.
What is by force (or he killed his enemies)
300
The Peloponnesian War was fought between these two city states of Greece.
What are Athens and Sparta?
300
The Romans borrowed their mythology from this civilization.
What is Greece?
400
This city state's 300 soldiers bravely fought off the Persians at Thermapylae.
What is Sparta?
400
It is the island just southwest of Italy. It looks like the boot is kicking it.
What is Sicily?
400
It is the number of people who formed the Triumverate.
What is three?
400
After Rome defeated his navy, Hannibal marched his army around the Mediterranean on the backs of these.
What are elephants?
400
The purpose of this cultural element shared by the Greeks and the Romans was to both entertain an audience and explain the world around them.
What is mythology?
500
This, the greek term for "marketplace," was the center of Greek city life.
What is the agora?
500
Rome is built along the banks of the Tiber River, but a majority of their fresh water comes from outside using this technology.
What is the aqueduct?
500
Rome wrote their laws down these, engraved tablets they hung in the Coliseum.
What are the 12 Tables?
500
After defeating Carthage, Romans spread this over the land, to ensure that no one could live there ever again.
What is salt?
500
This Roman language became the basis for many of the languages of Europe.
What is Latin?