Ancient Greece Geography
A small, independent country consisting of a single main city and the surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
The form of government introduced in Athens (~550 BC) where every citizen votes directly on every issue.
What is a Direct Democracy?
The ancient civilization that created Classical Republicanism and established a 500-year republic.
Who are the Ancient Romans?
The Roman philosophy that taught people to accept fate, stay calm under pressure, and control only what they can.
What is Stoicism?
Reason #3 for the fall of Rome, involving government leaders abusing their power.
What is political corruption?
These physical geographic features isolated Greek communities and created separate, diversified societies.
What are mountains (and surrounding seas)?
The form of democracy used in the United States where citizens elect leaders to represent their interests.
What is a Representative Democracy?
The Roman concept defined as "what is good for the community as a whole."
What is the common good?
The main structural power in an Empire.
What is ruled by one person or family in an Empire?
Reason #5 for the fall of Rome, defined as rapidly rising prices and declining money value.
What is Inflation?
The Greek city-state famous for art, philosophy, democracy, and a powerful navy.
What is Athens?
The false belief that every democratic government must be led by this specific executive title.
What is a President?
Putting aside your personal self-interest or concerns for the benefit of the community.
What is civic virtue?
The Roman general who recruited poor citizens into the army with promises of land, shifting army loyalty to generals.
Who is Marius?
Reason #6 for the fall of Rome, describing deteriorating housing, city decay, and neglected infrastructure.
What is Urban Decay?
The Greek city-state that emphasized military power over knowledge and trained boys to be warriors from a young age.
What is Sparta?
Voting in Ancient Athens was restricted to high-class male citizens, excluding these three groups.
Who are women, enslaved people, and foreigners?
The everyday driving law used in class to illustrate how personal freedom is limited to protect everyone.
What is the speed limit?
The key shift in army allegiance that transferred political power away from the Senate to military leaders.
What is taking oaths of allegiance to generals instead of the country?
Reason #4 for the fall of Rome, describing a severe lack of jobs for citizens.
What is unemployment?
The three famous Athenian philosophers mentioned in the unit who emphasized higher thought.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
The system used in the United States for presidential voting, highlighted as an example of representative democracy.
What is the electoral college?
The three groups that the Romans and Founding Fathers believed must actively teach civic virtue to youth.
What are schools, parents, and the community?
The reason Roman Senators gave for assassinating Julius Caesar after he gained total control of Rome.
What is they feared how much power one man had?
Reason #8 for the fall of Rome, involving excessive government spending on defense at the expense of other needs.
What is Military Spending?