ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY- CLASSICAL GREECE AND ANCIENT ROME- REVIEW

Question 1

BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY

Answer 1

ANCIENT ATHENS

Question 2

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

Answer 2

EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY IS IN THE LEGISLATURE-SMALL COMMUNITIES ONLY

Question 3

FATHER OF GREEK DEMOCRACY

Answer 3

PERICLES

Question 4

All citizens can vote/ ONLY FREE ADULT MALES ARE “CITIZENS”

                 Practiced DIRECT DEMOCRACY

                 Women had no political rights. Property of men.

Answer 4

ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

Question 5

Both governments are also known as ”REPUBLICS”).

Answer 5

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Question 6

Taught his students to question the world & seek the truth. He was sentenced to death for “corrupting the youth of Athens”.

Answer 6

SOCRATES

Question 7

Wrote “ The Republic” as a response to Athenian democracy. He believed that a “Philosopher KING” would be better than what he considered the “mob rule” of Athenian democracy.

Answer 7

PLATO

Question 8

First a Student, then a teacher at “THE ACADEMY” in Athens. He was ALEXANDER THE GREAT’S teacher.

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

Builds the largest empire of the ANCIENT WORLD. Creates HELLENISTIC WORLD/ A blend of 4 cultures- GREEK, EGYPTIAN, PERSIAN, AND INDIAN

Answer 9

Alexander The Great

Question 10

GREEKS ADVANCEMENTS

Answer 10

MATH, GEOMETRY, ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE, THEATER, PHILOSOPHY, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, HEATH SPAS, OLYMPICS

Question 11

REMAINS OF ROME ARE FOUND ON 3 CONTINENTS

Answer 11

EUROPE, AFRICA, AND ASIA.

Question 12

Romans borrow form what civilizations?

Answer 12

THE GREEK CIVILIZATION AND THE ETRUSCAN CIVILIZATION.

Question 13

ROMAN ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Answer 13

The ARCH is PERFECTED

     ROADS connect the empire. Similar to modern road construction.

     CONCRETE IS INVENTED, then made WATERPROOF.

     AQUEDUCTS are created to deliver water to the cities.

Question 14

PAX ROMANA

Answer 14

TIME OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY FOR ROME/ AUGUSTUS CAESAR BEGINS THIS ROMAN ERA.

Question 15

CONSTANTINOPLE

Answer 15

ALSO KNOWN AS: BYZANTIUM (BYZANTIME EMPIRE- THE GREEK SPEAKING EASTERN EMPIRE).

TODAY KNOWN AS THE CITY OF “ISTANBUL”.

Question 16

HANNIBAL

Answer 16

CARTHAGINIAN GENERAL WHO NEARLY DEFEATS ROME. CARTHAGE IS DESTROYED AFTER THE 3RD WAR. THE PEOPLE ARE KILLED OR ENSLAVED AND THE FIELDS ARE SALTED.

Question 17

FALL OF ROME

Answer 17

CAUSES: INFLATION, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, WEAK-UNRELIABLE MILITARY

GERMANIC TRIBES INVADE/ The HUNS PUSH THE GERMAN’S SOUTH INTO THE ROMAN LANDS.

Question 18

MONARCHY

Answer 18

RULE BY A SINGLE PERSON, USUALLY A MALE ( KING ) SOMETIMES A FEMALE ( QUEEN ) THESE LEADERS CLAIM TO RULE BY “ DIVINE RIGHT” – that is they claim that God has appointed them to rule the people.

Question 19

ARISTOCRACY

Answer 19

RULE BY SMALL GROUP OF RICH LANDOWNING FAMILIES/NOBILITY

Question 20

OLIGARCHY

Answer 20

RULE BY A SMALL GROUP OF POWERFUL CITIZENS

Question 21

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Answer 21

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