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Who were the earliest inhabitants of Italy

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Latinas

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What is a legend

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A story that’s be passed down for generations

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What is the Italian peninsula

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Italy

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Eventually villages developed into anther city what city

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Rome

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Who were the advanced civilization with a Hellenistic culture

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Etruscans

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When was Rome founded

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735 b.c

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What were the brothers who founded Greece named

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Romulus and Remus

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What were the two social classes of Rome

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Patricians and the plebeians

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What is a republic

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A government ruled by laws and representatives chosen by the people

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What were the two partitions that were elected called

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Consuls

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What was the most powerful branch

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The senate

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What was the assembly of centuries

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The most powerful group that was made up of patricians

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Who were the trible assembly

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The plebeians own assembly

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What were the trible assembly’s leaders called

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Tribunes

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What were the law of the twelve tables

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The roman law engraved in twelve bronze tablets

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Where were law of the twelve tables placed

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Roman forum

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What does “veto” mean

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” I forbid”

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Who did the Romans battle for the Mediterranean Sea and the coast

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Carthage

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What were the Punic wars

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The three major wars between Carthage and Rome

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What did both the roman and Carthage want control of

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Sicily

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Why was the second Punic war more famous then the other two

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Because of a man named Hannibal

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What is a tribe

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A group of people that share common ancestors

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Who was Marius

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A military hero

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Who is Sulla

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The general of the roman army

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Who was Pompey

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A man popular to the senate because of his accomplishments

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Who is Julius Caesar

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A wise politician who could sway the common people to accomplish his goals

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In 60 BC three men formed an alliance called what

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Triumvirate

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What happens on the day of44 BC on the fifteenth day of March

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Caesar was assassinated

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Who was Caesars nephew

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Octavian

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Who formed an alliance with one of Caesars generals

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Octavian

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Who was one of Caesars generals who became friends with Caesars nephew

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Mark Antony

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Who is Virgil

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A poet

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What is the pantheon

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The latest dome in Rome

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What is this colosseum

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An arena that people would be killed, fought, torched, or murdered

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Who were the people that believed that people, gods,The earth, and everything else was only matter

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Epicureanism

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What is the belief that ones duty lead to happiness

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Stoicism

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Who began his earthly ministers at the age of thirty

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Jesus Christ

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Who were the followers that were hated by the Jews and the Romans

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Christians

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Who was Nero

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A roman emperor

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