Chapter 4 Reading Guide: Ancient Greece and Rome
1.
What was the influence of Persia on the Greeks and Romans? What is Zoroastrianism?
2. How did geography affect the Greek and Roman civilizations?
3. Describe the political structure of Ancient Greece. Who was Pericles and what were his notions
of political structure? What is Hellenism?
4. How did Roman political structure develop?
5. How were Greek and Roman structures similar and different?
6. How did Rome unify its empire?
7. What was religion like in ancient Greece and Rome?
8. What accomplishments in math, science, art, and literature did they make?
9. What was the basis of the economy in the Mediterranean? Describe trading contacts.
10. What role did slavery play?
11. Describe the social divisions and gender relations.
12. How did the decline of Rome differ from the fall of China and India?
13. Describe Greece and Rome’s connection to the other ancient civilizations