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
Architecture
Greece
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
Greece
Geography
Name the 3 bodies of water
only senators voted to make laws
Mediterranean Sea
Rome
Aegean Sea
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
Adriatic Sea
Tiber River
Greece
Land:
mountainous
rocky terrain
Greece
Land
What was the land like?
Rome
Rome