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Gilmartin Greece & Rome

Vocabulary

Question: What does the word ancient mean?
Answer: Something that happened a long time ago.

Question: Democracy means governed by the....
Answer: people

Question: Greece is surrounded by water on three sides. That is called a...
Answer: peninsula

Question: What does the word characteristic mean?
Answer: A trait

Question: Giving or doing something is called a...
Answer: contribution.

Art

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Question: A picture showed Ancient Greeks on the Mediterranean Sea. What were they most likely doing?
Answer: Trading.

Question: What did the Greeks and Romans build out of solid rock?
Answer: Sculptures

Question: What is a mosaic?
Answer: A picture made up of tiny pieces of broken glass or tiles.

Question: What did the Greeks paint?
Answer: Pictures of gladiators.

Architecture

Question: Describe what the colosseum looked like.
Answer: A circular shaped building with arches.

Question: Where was the first roads built?
Answer: Rome

Question: What type of architecture do we see today that was seen on the Parthenon?
Answer: Columns

Question: What type of architecture is found in the Roman Colosseum and aqueducts?
Answer: Arches.

Question: Describe what the parthenon looked like.
Answer: A house-shaped building that had columns.

Government

Question: The government of the United States is based on the government of...
Answer: Greece and Rome

Question: How do we see contributions of the Greek and Roman governments in the US?
Answer: We get to vote in elections and choose people to represent us.

Question: Where is the birthplace of democracy?
Answer: Greece.

Question: What is a direct democracy? Give an example of a country that had a direct democracy.
Answer: A government where the people get to vote for their own rules and laws. Greece had a direct democracy.

Question: What is a representative democracy?
Answer: The people elect a smaller group of people to represent them.

A little bit of everything!

Question: On which continent would you find Greece and Rome?
Answer: Europe

Question: Is the city of Rome built on many hills or very flat land?
Answer: Many hills.

Question: What sporting event came from Ancient Greece?
Answer: The Olympics.

Question: Would you describe the soil of Ancient Greece as hard, rocky or rich?
Answer: Rich soil.

Question: Name three human characteristics of Ancient Greece.
Answer: Farmers, shipbuilders and traders.