Chapter 9 Section 1 The Rise Of Rome

Question 1

What is the name of the mountain range that runs the length of Italy?

Answer 1

Apennines

Question 2

What are the mountains that run across the top of the boot of Italy?

Answer 2

Alps

Question 3

What was the name of the river they gave Romans freshwater?

Answer 3

Tiber River

Question 4

Why was was Rome built on a series of 7 hills?

Answer 4

Make the city easy to defend

Question 5

According to legend what was the name of the twin bought brothers who founded Rome?

Answer 5

Romulus and Remus

Question 6

Who wrote the epic poem the Aneid?

Answer 6

Roman poet Virgil

Question 7

Which two groups influence the Romans most?

Answer 7

The Greeks and the Etruscans

Question 8

A group of 6000 in Roman soldiers is called

Answer 8

A legion

Question 9

What is the name of the island sitting off the toe of Italy?

Answer 9

Sicily

Question 10

What is the name of the plain in central Italy where the city of Rome was built?

Answer 10

Latium

Question 11

According to Vergil’s Aneid? What is the name of the Trojan hero who founded Rome?

Answer 11

Aeneas

Question 12

What was the name of the region north of Rome where the Etruscans lived?

Answer 12

Etruria

Question 13

What was the name of the ruling family who ruled Rome for more than 100 years and became more and more cruel?

Answer 13

The Tarquins

Question 14

In 509 BC the Romans rebelled and overthrew the Tarquins and set up this kind of government:

Answer 14

A republic