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Economic Review

Trade: both groups benefit from it

Contribution: giving something or doing something to benefit self & others

Basic Needs: food, clothing, shelter

Human Resources: people

Natural Resources: from nature

Capital Resources: tools, buildings

Adaptations

Both Greece and Rome had to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive and thrive

Greece & Rome Review & Comparison

Rome

Greece:

adapted to their environment by becoming traders, ship-builders, and establishing city-states due to the mountainous land

Rome adapted to their environment by becoming traders, road-builders, and farmers

Greece:

direct democracy

Government

Rome:

representative

democracy

Rome

Representative

(both start with R, that's how you remember where it was used)

Government

Art

In Rome, they created beautiful mosaics, out of tiles

In Greece, art and sport was very important

Greek plays are still performed today!

Greece was known for its pottery and sculpture

The Greeks invented the Olympics

Events that we still compete in include:

wrestling

swimming

running

Both Greece and Rome are known for their mythology:

they believed in many gods and goddesses and told stories, what we now call myths

Contributions

Art

Everyone meaning

free

land-owning

men

Greece

Architecture

Greece

Direct Democracy

Columns

Corinthian

(crazy & curly

lots of decorations!)

Doric

(dull,

no decoration)

Ionic

(looks like a capital I)

Columns were important to building temples like the Parthenon in Athens

Everyone participated and voted

Architecture

Rome

Arches

Roads:

Some Roman roads

are still in use today

throughout Europe

Arches allowed

Rome to build

Aqueducts

to bring water

long distances

taller buildings- apartment living

Arches allowed the Romans to build buildings like the Coliseum in Rome

Government

Greece

Democracy

Geography

Name the 3 bodies of water

Representative Democracy

Rome

only senators voted to make laws

Mediterranean Sea

Rome

Aegean Sea

Water

Senators were not actually chosen by the people, but by 2 Consuls who were voted on by the people

Ionic Sea

Consuls could be voted out by the people too,so they had to work to remain popular

Mediterranean Sea

Land

Adriatic Sea

Tiber River

Soil

Climate:

Warm and Dry

Greece

Land:

mountainous

rocky terrain

Soil:

limited

rich soil

Peninsula

many islands

Greece

Land

What was the land like?

Rome

Peninsula

Climate:

warmer 4 seasons

Rome

Land:

Hills

Soil:

limited rich soil

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