Test preparation CH. 3 and 4

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How to study for history?

Age of Greeks and Romans

The background shows an inscription in Latin, the language of the Romans. Depicted in the foreground is a classical Greek temple, the house of the Greek gods.

3000 BCE - 500 CE

3500 years in total.

Read ch 3 (1 up till 4) in silence for ten minutes

What is NOT true about the geography of Greece?

1. It borders the Mediterranean Sea.
2. It has many high mountains and rocky ground.
3. There is a lot of fertile land close together.
4. It has many islands.

Connect the form of government to the right description:

Monarchy

Democracy

Aristocracy

Tyranny

Power is held by a small group of rich people.

Power is held by a single appointed ruler or king. 

Power is held by one self-appointed cruel ruler.

Power is held by normal citizens of the city-state.

Connect each keyword to the correct definition. Two keywords will remain. (2p)

Stories about gods and demi-gods

Form of government in which a king holds power

The main market square in a city-state

A close hoplite formation

Comedies and tragedies could be seen here.

Oligarchy

Theater

Myths

Acropolis

Agora

Phalanx

Monarchy

Plato and Aristotle were...

1. Historians
2. Mathematicians
3. Mythological heroes
4. Philosophers

What was Socrates accused of by Athenian court?

1. For cooperation with the enemy
2. For corrupting the youth
3. For insulting the leaders of the city
4. For setting the city on fire

Connect to the right city

Athens

Sparta

Aristocracy

Democracy

Powerful fleet

Powerful landarmy

''A city-state where power is held by a few powerful richt people.''
What type of state is this referring to?

1. Aristocracy
2. Democracy
3. Monarchy
4. Tyranny

''A city-state where power is held by a one cruel self appointed leader.''
What kind of state is this referring to?

1. Aristocracy
2. Democracy
3. Monarchy
4. Tyranny

In Ancient Greece, politics was open to people who had citizenship. Below you see four people who lived in Athens.
Which of these examples could be an Athenian citizen. Choose the correct answer.

1. a very rich adult woman, born in Athens, who lived in a beautiful house
2. an adult male, born in Greece, who has his own shop.
3. a farmer, born in Athens, who owns a small piece of land.
4. a rich land-owning adult male from Sparta.

The Greeks shaped our modern European and western culture and identity.

Drag the Greek inventions to their modern counterparts.

storytelling

the Olympic Games

democracy

the alphabet

the name Europe

theaters and plays

architecture

science and mathematics

Last question: Think about the previous question. How do you call it when there is a lot left from a certain culture in the current society ?

1. the legacy
2. Hellenism
3. the Olympic games
4. Ancient history

Last round for the top 2......!!!

What is the topic of this map?

Write an appropriate caption....

Read ch 4 (1 up till 3) in silence for ten minutes

Put in the right order

Roman Empire

Fall of Rome

Early village next to Tiber

Roman Republic

Kingdom of Rome

A country that is governed by one or more elected leaders.

An assembly that governed the Roman Republic. The members came from the richest Roman families.

Most important administrator and army general in the Roman Republic.

The right to stop a decision being put into effect.

Empire covering a large area that existed roughly from 300 BC to 1450 AD. 

Roman citizens had certain special rights such as the right not to be sentenced without a trial.

Someone who rules alone.

Ruler of the Roman Empire.

A long period of peace and calm in the first and second centuries AD (literally ‘Roman peace’).

Dictator

Emperor

Roman Empire

Pax Romana

Citizenship rights 

Republic 

Senate

Consul

Veto right

REPUBLIC

VETO

CONSUL

SENATE

Country without a king

Important ruler of the Roman Empire and led the army

Right to forbid decisions

Group Roman rulers. Often richt people from rich families

Why did the Romans have a dictator?

1. To deal with Julius Caesar
2. To deal with emergencies.
3. Kings were not popular so they called it differently
4. Because Augustus was princeps senatus.

What was the main goal of the Punic wars?

1. conquer Carthage
2. Create a mare nostrum
3. Increase the Limes
4. conquer Spain

Greeks

Romans

Zeus

Jupiter

Toga

Judea

Alphabet

Bathhouses

Hellenism

Democracy

Empire

In Roman society patricians were....

1. Wealthy
2. Poor
3. Old and wise
4. Slaves

What is the correct description of optimates?

1. Politicians who tried to help the plebeians
2. Official that was elected by the plebeian assembly to protect normal people. Had veto powers
3. Head of a Roman family
4. Politicians who looked after the upper class (the patricians and the senate)

What is the correct description of populares?

1. Politicians who tried to help the plebeians
2. Trained slaves that fought each other in the arena
3. Politicians who looked after the upper class (the patricians and the senate)
4. Assembly of only plebeians. Made laws and elected 10 people’s tribunes

For how long could consuls lead the country

1. 6 months
2. 1 year
3. 2 years
4. 4 years

A. Hadrian orders the built of a great wall to mark the northern border in England.
B. The last king is chased away and Rome becomes a republic.
C. Augustus becomes the sole ruler of Rome.
D. The conflict between the Optimates and the Populares ends up in a civil war.
Put these events in the correct chronological order (from old to new).

1. B-D-A-C
2. D-A-B-C
3. B-D-C-A
4. D-C-A-B

What's a princeps senatus?

1. The prince of the Senate
2. The leader of the Senate
3. The person who had to right to speak first in the Senate
4. None of the above

What is true about the Colloseum

1. the Colosseum represents only Greek architecture at its grandest.
2. It is built during the pax romanawhen the Roman Empire peaked.
3. It's a public amphitheatre that could host about 75.000 of Romans.
4. the Colosseum is a freestanding structure of stone and concrete with floor heating underneath

What does 'Pax Romana' mean?

1. Other word for 'Roman empire'
2. 'Roman peace' that lasted for 200 years
3. 'Roman trade system'
4. 'Roman soldier'

What were the 'bread and circuses'?

1. Free food for all the poor in the city
2. Means of keeping the population happy
3. Gladiators who fought over a woman
4. Training for Roman soldiers before going to war

Roman roads were important to the Romans, because they made it possible for soldiers to travel fast across the lands and to.....

1. defend the Limes
2. trade
3. connect aquaducts
4. travel

Last question: The Gauls were a collection of Celtic peoples that lived in modern-day .......... during Roman times.

1. Spain
2. England
3. Ireland
4. France

Bath in England is an example of....

                   Romanisation

This is a map of the Celtic empire

Write an appropriate caption....

Bath in England is an example of....

                   Romanisation

This is a map of the Celtic empire

Write an appropriate caption....