This structure in Rome was used for gladiator contests and public spectacles.
What is the Colosseum?
The guiding set of principles that directed knights in combat and their day-to-day interactions is called what?
What is Code of Chivalry?
What event marks the beginning of the end of feudalism in medieval Europe?
The Black Death
This system of land exchange and mutual obligations between lords and vassals was central to Medieval European society.
What is Feudalism?
What was the official language of the Roman Empire?
What is Latin?
The Black Death is believed to have first arrived in what European country?
What is Italy?
What is inheritance?
What were the first written laws in Rome, created to make laws clear and accessible to everyone?
What are the Twelve Tables?
Following the fall of Rome, what caused Europe to experience widespread destruction, looting, and fear?
What are barbarian invasions?
What is concrete?
To manage the Roman empire more effectively, Emperor Diocletian did what?
What is divided the empire into Eastern and Western halves?
This Roman general crossed the Rubicon and became the dictator of Rome.
What is Julius Caesar?
This form of government marks the period of Roman history where people elected leaders, called representatives to stand in for them.
What is the Roman Republic?
In Medieval Europe, this institution held significant power and influence over people's lives, often overshadowing kings.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
These individuals were the landowners in feudal Japan who controlled large estates and had samurai serving under them.
What are daimyo?
This Roman emperor famously converted to Christianity and issued the Edict of Milan in 313 AD.
What is Constantine the Great?
The arrival of who forced feudal Japan to open up its ports to trade?
What bacterium was transmitted through fleas carried by black rats?
What is yersinia pestis?
The Bubonic Plague accounted for what percentage of deaths in Europe?
What is 1/3 of the population?
What ideology introduced new values and ethics to Roman laws and social norms, guiding personal and communal behavior?
What is Christianity?
This event marked the return of power to the emperor in feudal Japan, ending centuries of military rule by the shogunate.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This system focused on the self-sufficient estates where lords managed land worked by peasants and serfs.
What is manorialism?
Rei refers to which virtue within the Code of Bushido?
What is Respect?
The Roman Empire's system of roads stretched over 50,000 miles, allowing rapid communication and travel. This famous phrase refers to their efficiency.
What is the name of the two leaders who ran the government and army of the Roman Republic?
What are consuls?