Chapter 60: The Republic of Rome (first half)

Question 1

Alalia

Answer 1

it is the name of a trading post built by the Phocaeans on the island of Cyrus - the Greek name for Corsica

Question 2

Celt/Gaul

Answer 2

it is an anachronistic name for the tribes who roamed around in western central Europe between 600 and 500 BC.

Question 3

Carthage

Answer 3

it lay on the northern coast of Africa at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 4

Hallstatt

Answer 4

it is a burial site that had spread from modern Austria across to the southern Loire river, its best-known site: a cemetery and salt mine south of Danube.

Question 5

Massalia

Answer 5

this is the name of the colony built by the Phocaeans, which connected the Greek merchant net to a web-work of tribes that were barely known.

Question 6

Penteconter

Answer 6

it is a ship with fifty oars and a square mainsail which were peculiarly the Phocaeans.

Question 7

Phocaea

Answer 7

it is in the middle of the Asia Minor coast: a city whose people were “the earliest Greeks to make long voyages by sea”.

Question 8

Tarquin the Younger/Tarquin the Proud

Answer 8

He was the nephew of Survius Tullius, he imploded Servius Tullius’s monarchy.