WORLD HISTORY

UNIT # 2
PREP
Ancient Greece & Rome
HW 2 A:

Mr. Torrance

Read the Text pages 135-136

DEFINITIONS: (50 to 100 words each)
1. Polis
2. Tyrants
3. Democracy and Oligarchy

HW 2 B:

Read the Text pages 130-133

DEFINITIONS: (50 to 100 words each)
4. Illiad
5. Heinrich Schliemann
IDENTIFICATION (ID): (100 to 200 words)
6. Manfred Korfmanns work and ideas about Troy

HW 2 C:

Read the Text pages 136-138

IDENTIFICATIONS (IDs): (100 to 200 words each)
7. Sparta (include Spartas government)
8. Athens (include Cleisthenes and Direct Democracy)

HW 2 D: Greek Letter

(Get Directions in Class from Teacher)

A. Write over 200 words

B. Write an interesting Letter not boring
C. Make it appropriate so that your mother or the principle can read it

HW 2 E:

Read the Text pages 138, 140-141

DEFINITION: (50 to 100 words)
9. Pericles
IDENTIFICATION: (100 to 200 words)
10. The Greeks and Western Civilization

HW 2 F:

Read the Text pages 139 and 160

IDENTIFICATIONS: (100 to 200 words each)
11. Socrates
12. Plato
(Read Source 1: The Republic of Plato on page 160 and
describe the type of individuals Plato wants to be rulers)

HW 2 G:

Read the Text pages 140, 160-161

DEFINITIONS: (50 to 100 words each)
13. Read Source 2: Aristotle: Government and the Middle Class pp. 160-161
and explain why government should be based on the Middle Class
14. Read Source 3: The Politics of Aristotle p. 161 and explain why Aristotle
says that man is by nature an animal intended to live in a polis.
ID: (100 to 200 words)
15. Aristotle

HW 2 H:

Read the Text pages 114, 145-146

IDs: (100 to 200 words each)
16. Roman Republic
(include: Patricians, Plebeians, Consuls, Senate, assemblies)
17. Roman Law (Twelve Tables of Law)

HW 2 I:

Use the Internet: Wikipedia

DEFINITION: (50 to 100 words)
18. Julius Caesar play by Shakespeare (include most important character)
ID: (100 to 200 words)
19. Julius Caesar (include achievements and assassination)

HW 2 J:

Read the Text pages 146-147, 150

DEFINITIONS: (50 to 100 words each)
20. Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana
21. Copy the chart on the bottom of page 150 of the Greek and Roman gods
ID: (100 to 200 words)
22. Roman Empire (citizenship, languages, achievements, Christianity)

HW 2 K:

Read the Text pages 148-151

IDs: (100 to 200 words each)
23. Jesus Christ
24. Christian Persecution (include Nero and Constantine)

HW 2 L:

Use the Internet: Wikipedia

DEFINITION: (Just list the 13 names of Barbarian Invaders)
25. Barbarian Invasions of Rome Migration Period
(LIST 13 barbarian groups that invaded the Roman Empire
before the Later Migrations)
ID: (100 to 200 words)
26. Decline of the Roman Empire (Describe and Include a list of causes)

HW 2 M: Map of the World

1. Use RED INK to SHADE in these FIVE seas: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea,
Red Sea and Persian Gulf
2. Use RED INK to LABEL all FOUR Oceans
3. Use RED INK to LABEL all SEVEN Continents
4. Use RED INK to CIRCLE Asia, North America and Latin America
(Use Dark ink through the Red shading)
5. Use BLUE INK to MARK the following 10 letters where they belong:
M Mesopotamia E Egypt
I where India began
C where China began
R - Rome
G - Greece B - Byzantium
P - Persia
S - Salinas
X - where Carthage was located
6. Use BLACK INK to DRAW and LABEL these FIVE lines: Equator, Tropic of Cancer,
Tropic of Capricorn, Prime Meridian, and the International Date Line
7. Then HI-LITE each of the FIVE Black lines

Questions on Video about Greek Ideas

FIRST PLAY: Socrates and his School of Students (written by Plato)
1.

Describe what happened in this Play:

2.

What important timeless questions are dealt with?

3.

What did the Greeks create in order to deal with such questions? And where is this first suppose to exist?

SECOND PLAY: Socrates and Crito (written by Plato)

4.

What does Crito say is the best form of government?

5.

What does Socrates say every form of government contains?

6. What does Socrates say is the result of allowing too much liberty? And what must be done in order to prevent
this?

THIRD PLAY: Antigone (written by Sophocles)

7.

Ruler: Uncle Creon; Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta

Describe what happened before and during this Play:

8. What great question is asked in this Play?

9.

How does the Play seem to answer the question?

FOURTH PLAY: Lysistrada (written by Aristophanes)

10. Describe what happened in this Play:

11. Why are the women of Athens taking over the Treasury building?
12. Is this Play about Womens rights and equality? Then why are the women used in this Play?

FIFTH PLAY: The Death of Socrates (written by Plato in The Apology)

13. What was Socrates accused and convicted of?
14. What did the friends of Socrates attempt to persuade Socrates to do? And why did Socrates refuse to do it?

15. Why did Socrates not allow women to be present at his death?
16. What was Socrates request with his last words?
17. How did Socrates die?