Bellwork 4/11/24

The complex structure of Roman government to limit the power of any one group or persons is called a system of 

• Checks and balances
• Checks and penalties
• Checks and denarii
• Checks on power

Who made himself dictator for life and was seen as a hero to the plebeians because he gave them land & food, but was power-hungry to the patricians?

• Julius Caesar
• Mark Antony
• Scipio
• Caesar Augustus

A modern soccer stadium is similar to which Roman accomplishment?

• Pont du Gard
• The Colosseum
• Basilica of Constantine
• The Pantheon

Rome was mostly located in which geographic region?

• desert
• mountains
• peninsula
• plains

One of the most powerful Greek City-States and birthplace of Democracy.

• Athens 
• Sparta 
• Thebes 
• Corinth 

Athenian society DID NOT consider educated women as equal to men. 

For instance, women COULD NOT participate in political activities or own property, and they were always under the care of a male family member.

• True
• False

Greek civilization began in a river valley.

• True

• False

Name of people who came to the Northern part of India in 1500 B.C (noble ones)

• Aryans
• Persians
• Babylonians
• Egyptians

Which civilization defeated the Greeks when Sparta & Athens teamed up?

• Rome

• Greece

• Mesopotamia

• Persia

• Egypt

What is the civilization that invented papyrus?

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• Israel

• Rome

• Greece