Insights into Classical Greece and Rome

1. Classical Greece and Rome

3. Question 1 - 10 • What contributed to the economic weakening of the late Roman empire?

4. Answer 1 – 10 • Heavy taxes burdened many, and helped to push many Romans into poverty and riots. Small farmers also lost their farms due to huge debts, many began working on larger farms.

5. Question 1 - 20 • As seen in this map, what was the second biggest change that Emperor Constantine made to the Roman empire?

6. Answer 1 – 20 • Moved the capital of Rome to Constantinople

7. Question 1 - 30 • Why did the ancient Greeks develop into many small, self-governing city-states and struggle to unite as one empire?

8. Answer 1 – 30 • Geography (explain)

9. Question 1 - 40 • How did the expansion of the Roman Republic through conquest affect Roman farmers and workers? What effect did this have on the Roman Republic?

10. Answer 1 – 40 • Cheap grain and trade goods poured in. Slaves provided free labor. • Roman plebian farmers couldn’t compete with the low prices that resulted and many became debt ridden, eventually leaving their farms to work for others or look for jobs in cities.

11. Question 1 - 50 • Explain the policy of “bread and circuses” that was adopted by various Roman emperors during the Pax Romana. In what way did this reveal underlying weaknesses in the Roman empire?

12. Answer 1 – 50

13. Question 2 - 10 • Describe what the “Pax Romana” was.

14. Answer 2 – 10

15. Question 2 - 20 • The map below shows the borders of who’s empire?

16. Answer 2 – 20 • Alexander the Great’s Hellenistic empire

17. Question 2 - 30 • Ancient Rome’s biggest contribution to our own American culture/society is in what area?

18. Answer 2 – 30 • Government run by laws. • Rome had their Republican form of government as well as laws written out for all to see on the 12 tables.

19. Question 2 - 40 • Ancient Athens is credited with creating which element of our own government?

20. Answer 2 – 40 • Its Democratic form

21. Question 2 - 50 • What impact did the decline and fall of the Roman empire have on the rest of Western Europe?

22. Answer 2 – 50 • It led to disorder and chaos as western Europe went from being controlled by a strong centralized government (Rome) to many very weak decentralized governments.

23. Question 3 - 10 • Direct Democracy

24. Answer 3 – 10 • Athens

25. Question 3 - 20 • Philosophers, Sophists, and the Socratic Method.

26. Answer 3 – 20 • Athens

27. Question 3 - 30 • Warrior Society

28. Answer 3 – 30 • Sparta

29. Question 3 - 40 • The Senate

30. Answer 3 – 40 • Rome

31. Question 3 - 50 • A Republic

32. Answer 3 – 50 • Rome

33. Question 4 - 10 • Forbade Travel and Trade

34. Answer 4 – 10 • Sparta

35. Question 4 - 20

36. Answer 4 – 20 • Athens

37. Question 4 - 30

38. Answer 4 – 30 • Sparta

39. Question 4 - 40 • The Veto power

40. Answer 4 – 40 • Rome

41. Question 4 - 50

42. Answer 4 – 50 • Rome

43. Question 5 - 10

44. Answer 5 – 10 • Roman Empire

45. Question 5 - 20

46. Answer 5 – 20

47. Question 5 - 30

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49. Question 5 - 40

50. Answer 5 – 40