Chapter 49: Trading Posts and Colonies (first half)

Question 1

Alba Longa

Answer 1

This is the second town Numitor ruled, it was planted as a colony when Lavinium became crowded, and it was built along the ridge of the Alban hills.

Question 2

Amphictyonys

Answer 2

Associations which shared responsibility for the upkeep of a temple or shrine; the ancient version of a building co-op.

Question 3

Amulius

Answer 3

He is the brother of Numitor, he mounted an attack that forced his brother (the king) to flee alone into exile, unable to return to his country to protect his family. He seized the throne, and murdered his brother’s sons.

Question 4

Apennine Culture

Answer 4

The name of the peoples that lived in settlements that lay along the ridge of the Apennines. During the Greek Dark Age, they out branches. Differences began to appear not only in pottery, but in weapons and armor. Population increased; the people of a single settlement now might number in thousands.

Question 5

Lavinium

Answer 5

This is the first and older town Numitor ruled.

Question 6

Numitor

Answer 6

In 776, he ruled two Latin towns on the Italian peninsula, both of them just south of the Tiber. The first was called Lavinium and the second Alba Longa.

Question 7

Rhea Silvia

Answer 7

She is Numitor’s daughter Amulius made her a perpetual virgin by way of preventing further claims to the throne by Numitor’s grandchildren. Despite this, she became pregnant.