This is an internationally important inland sea that borders Europe, Southwest Asia, and Africa:

The other big mountain chain in Europe other than the Alps, are these mountains, which run along Europe's eastern border and divide the continent from Asia:

While the Alps and Pyrenees protect Europe from artic winds, this stream brings warm water, moist air, and gives much of Europe a mild climate:

In early Greece, these consisted of a central city, or polis, and its outlying villages. Each one had its own laws and form of government, but all of them shared a common language and religion:

There were three forms of government common in City-States: Tyrant-run city-states; Democracies, where citizens take part in government; and these, where a few powerful, wealthy individuals ruled:

This capital of Greece, once one of the largest and greatest city-states, was a democracy where free, adult males whose fathers had been citizens could engage in politics:

Three famous Ancient Greek philosophers who had a profound effect on the world, teachers who taught about knowledge, friendship, justice, government, math, astronomy, and poetry are:

This city began as a group of villages along Italy's Tiber River, around 750 B.C. It was governed by kings for more than 200 years before it became a republic:

An assembly of elected representatives formed Ancient Rome's republic form of government. This body of representatives was elected every two years - they elected consuls to head the government and military:

A member of a wealthy family, a landowning family, who claimed family roots dating back to Rome's founding - these people controlled the law:

On the other hand, these people were ordinary, working-class Romans. They gained equality with patricians in 287 B.C. - they could vote but not hold public office:

Rome expanded by conquering lands, but one of its biggest victories was over this ancient city-state, which led to Rome's control of much of North Africa:

He was an ambitious Roman general and governor who became a dictator. He refused the Roman Senate and was stabbed to death on the floor of the senate:

Augustus's rule kept Rome peaceful with improvements in engineering, architecture, and seafaring. This period, characterized by great Roman literature, growth, and peace, is known as the:

In A.D. 306, this man became a Roman Emperor who spread Christianity after he had a vision of a cross in the sky - he promised to be a Christian if he won the battle and he did both:

This period, after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the modern age, an era characterized by the disrepair of infrastructure, stalled cultural growth, and very bad hygiene, is known as the:

This Germanic king and warrior joined up with the Catholic Church in the 700s and 800s - the Pope declared him the new Holy Roman Emperor:

There were two Medieval systems that served the king and nobility - one was a system where lords gave land to vassals and vassal's lands were called fiefs, and one was where peasants lived on and farmed land, trading their labor for the lord's protection:

The formation of guilds, or associations of workers to protect rights and wages, may have helped this momentous development in the Late Middle Ages: the signing of this document in 1215, which gave nobles a larger role in government and limited the king's power: