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1. The development of direct democracy in ancient
Greece expanded which belief?
9. What civilization created the Justinian Code?

2. What civilization greatly influenced Rome? 10. How do we know people in ancient Greece were
polytheistic?

3. What geographic features affected Greece?

11. Who was the first emperor of Rome?

4. People in ancient Greece relied on which physical 12. Rome’s practice of Christianity contributed MOST
feature of geography to support their way of life? to….?

5. What geographic feature led Greece to have 13. Who were patricians?
city-states?

14. How did the government change in Rome because of

6. What did Greeks use mythology to explain? Julius Caesar?

15. What civilization had roads, aqueducts, and

7. What does the spread of goods and ideas through amphitheaters as technology?
trade routes lead to?

16. How were patricians different from plebeians and

8. How were Spartan boys raised? slaves?
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17. What was an effect of Constantine legalizing 24. What were some differences between the Eastern and
Christianity? Western Churches?

Eastern Western
18. What civilization started as a republic?

19. How does writing down laws benefit a society?

20. What kind of diffusion is it if a religion is spreading?

21. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are what type of

religious systems? 25. What are some advantages of the Greek language?

26. Cause: Constintine legalizes Christianity? Effect?

22. What civilization led to the Byzantine Empire?

23. What led to the Great Schism in Christianity?