Rome and Greece Combined Vocab

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• State

• Athens

• Phalanx

• Hellenes

Government by the people

• democracy

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

• Islam

A cause and effect relationship in which one variable controls the changes in another variable.

• Effect

• Society

• Causation

• Dominos

Asking questions about a particular source, including: Who created it? When? Why? From what perspective or point of view? What did they know?

• Historian

• Sourcing

• Causation

• Being annoying

A community of people who share a common culture

• Community

• Sourcing

• Agora

• Society

The study of the earth's physical and cultural features

• History

• Maps

• Sourcing

• Geography

A government ruled by a few rich and powerful people

• Monopoly

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Examine and judge carefully.

• Annihilate

• Evaluate

• Corroborate

• Cultivate