Classical Greece and Rome

Classical Greece and Rome

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

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.

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

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

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

Answer 1 – 30

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?

Answer 1 – 40

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?

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

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

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

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Question 2 - 50

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Question 3 - 10 • Direct Democracy

Answer 3 – 10 • Athens

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

Question 3 - 30 • Warrior Society

Answer 3 – 30 • Sparta

Question 3 - 40 • The Senate

Answer 3 – 40 • Rome

Question 3 - 50 • A Republic

Question 4 - 10 • Forbade Travel and Trade

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Question 4 - 40 • The Veto power

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Question 5 - 10

Answer 5 – 10 • Roman Empire

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Classical Greece and Rome