Unit 9 Key Words

Question 0

Define

Acropolis

Answer 0

City center
Always on a hill
Greek
Government building of temple 
500 bc

Question 1

Define

Polis

Answer 1

Greek city state

Athens-500bc

Question 2

Define

Agora

Answer 2

Greek market place -500 bc

Question 3

Define

Democracy

Answer 3

Two forms
Direct- Athens 500-206 bc
Representative- USA 1789-present

Question 4

Define

Direct democracy

Answer 4

All citizens participate in law making.

Athens Greece 500-206

Question 5

Define

Representative democracy

Answer 5

System of government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws
USA- 1789-present

Question 6

Define

Athens

Answer 6

Capital of Greece
Greek city state
Home of first democracy
500 bc

Question 7

Define

Republic

Answer 7

Ruled by elected officials
Rome
500 bc-100 bc

Question 8

Define

Empire

Answer 8

Large area rules by a single person
Many cultures
Rome 
27bc-476ad
Absolute form of rule

Question 9

Define

Patricians

Answer 9

Wealthy land owners that make up the senate and the consuls

Rome

Question 10

Define

Plebeians

Answer 10

Everybody who is not a patrician

Whole time time existed

Question 11

Define

Consuls

Answer 11

2 Executive officers
Cooperated to rule republic
Chosen from senate
Roman republic

Question 12

Define

Tribunes

Answer 12

Representatives of plebeians who possessed power to veto over senate
500bc-100bc
Rome

Question 13

Define

Veto

Answer 13

Late roman republic
Tribunes given veto power
“I forbid” in Latin.

Question 14

Define

Dictator

Answer 14

Republic- 509bc-27bc

If there was a crisis the roman senate would elect a dictator to rule for 6 months.

Question 15

Define

Senate (SPQR)

Answer 15

Existed in Rome from beginning to end
Wealthy families who made laws
Patricians

Senātis populusque rōmānus