Ancient History

1. a government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person
4. a large Roman stadium primarily used for chariot races
7. in Rome, the name for the common people
8. period of prosperity, happiness, and achievement
9. 2 million years ago-8000 BCE
11. a person trained to fight for public entertainment
12. a settlement under the control of a usually distant country
15. a government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives
16. a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia
19. having to do with the community
21. studying of human development
22. belief that there are many gods
23. a 200-year period of peace and stability established and maintained by the Roman Empire
24. ruler of ancient Egypt
25. a city-state of ancient Greece that was the first to have a democracy; also known as the birthplace of Western civilization; the capital of present-day Greece
26. the new stone age 8000-3000 BCE

2. leaders are elected to represent people
3. the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking
5. a set of basic laws
6. in Rome, a member of upper classmen
10. large territory where many groups of people are ruled by one leader or one government
13. symbol used in the system of writing from 3000 BCE
14. a great flowering of culture based on classical Greek and Roman ideas that began in Italy around 1300 and spread throughout Europe
17. a ruler with absolute power
18. belief that there is one God
20. studying the past by examining objects
23. the group of gods worshipped in a religion