Ancient Rome Flashcards
This Trojan is believed to be the first “true hero of Rome,” having brought his exiled peoples from Troy through Carthage to the Western coast of Italy.
Aeneas
Tarquinius Priscus and Tarquinius Superbus, the fifth and seventh (and final) kings of Rome, were traditionally identified with what ancient Italian civilization, which would begin its decline at the end of the Roman Kingdom and become fully assimilated during the subsequent Roman Republic?
Etruscan
Law of the Roman Republic decreed that generals who led forces outside Italy had to relinquish their commands before returning. Julius Caesar violated this law in 49 BCE, traversing with his legion a stream that formed a border between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul, and starting a revolution that led to the Roman Empire. What was the name of this stream?
Rubicon
The Roman general who conquered Britain is best known by what name, the Latin for “farmer”?
Agricola
Underground passageways made movement easy in these Roman places with rooms like frigidariums and tepidariums.
Baths
The Celtic Helvetii tried to move from Switzerland to Gaul but this man, then Roman governor, barred them in 58 B.C.
Julius Caesar
In 390 B.C. an army of this Celtic group had the distinction of being the first group to sack Rome.
Gauls
The Law of 12 Tables may have settled disputes between the wealthy patricians & this class of common people.
Plebeians
Constructed in 312 B.C., this major Roman road originally ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua in Campania.
Appian Way
Around 509 B.C the Romans formed this kingless type of government mention in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
Republic
After the defeat of Cassius and Brutus at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BCE, the Roman Republic was primarily ruled by two men—Octavian in the west, and what other man in the east? This arrangement lasted until the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, and Octavian’s subsequent supremacy (and eventual ascension as the first Roman Emperor).
Mark Antony
Caesar grew up during a Roman Civil War between which two Roman generals who were vying for command over the troops for Rome’s war against Mithridates of Pontus?
Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Caesar was associated with the wrong side of the Civil War, so he stayed out of Rome for a while. During that time he entered military service for the governor of Asia who dispatched him to what province in modern day Turkey which included the ancient city of Nicaea? Caesar was sent to King Nicomedes of this province to gather support for Rome, but he spent such a long time in the king’s court that rumors of an affair between Caesar and the king surfaced. Caesar vehemently denied it but was forever plagued by the nickname “Queen of ____ [the province in question].”
Bithnyia
During his quaestorship of Further Spain, Caesar reportedly cried or groaned at the statue of what historically great military commander, lamenting that he had not accomplished as much as the commander had by the same age?
Alexander The Great
Although Caesar’s wife apparently must refrain from paramours, Caesar himself must not. During the Catiline Conspiracy, Caesar received a secret missive while sitting in the Senate. Marcus Porcius Cato accused him of corresponding with the conspirators and demanded Caesar read the letter aloud. Embarrassingly for Cato, the letter turned out to be a love letter from Caesar’s paramour - Cato’s half-sister and mother to Marcus Brutus. Who was this woman?
Servilia
The battle in 31 BCE that ended the Roman Republic, led to Octavian’s ascension to the title of Augustus and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was followed shortly thereafter by the deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra by suicide, was a naval engagement fought near what Greek city, after which the battle is named?
Actium
