Events - Midterm

Question 1

what was Rome like under Sulla?

Answer 1

lots of destruction, like a bloodbath

Question 2

81 BCE

Answer 2

Sulla was made a dictator and starts to redraft the constitution (which aimed at returning power to the Senate and removing the Plebs)

Question 3

79 BCE

Answer 3

Sulla resigned and retired to Campagnia

Question 4

4000 BCE

Answer 4

appearance of agriculture

Question 5

2000 BCE

Answer 5

copper tools

Question 6

1400 BCE

Answer 6

Mycenean pottery seen at Sardinia, shows evidence of long distance trade across Italy

Question 7

1200 BCE

Answer 7

destruction happens throughout the eastern Mediterranean - social stratification falls apart, trade networks collapse

Question 8

post 1200 BCE

Answer 8

Venetian trade throughout the Mediterranean, people grouped back together in towns and cities,

Question 9

10th century

Answer 9

Phoenicians sailed in the Mediterranean for trade and Carthage becomes Rome’s biggest enemy

Question 10

2000-1000 BCE

Answer 10

Bronze Age

Question 11

900-700 BCE

Answer 11

Iron Age

Question 12

8th-7th century

Answer 12

Greeks founded a string of settlements in Sicily and southern Italy

Question 13

1200 BCE

Answer 13

fall of Mycenean palaces in Greece

Question 14

1000 BCE

Answer 14

Phoenician traders

Question 15

900 BCE

Answer 15

Villanovan culture

Question 16

825 BCE

Answer 16

foundation of Carthage

Question 17

800 BCE

Answer 17

identification of Etruscan culture

Question 18

775 BCE

Answer 18

Greeks and Phoenicians at Cumae

Question 19

753 BCE

Answer 19

traditional date for the foundation of Rome

Question 20

750 BCE

Answer 20

small settlements start to pop up on the 7 hills of Rome, especially the Palatine hill

Question 21

725 BCE

Answer 21

villages on Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills become unified as Rome

Question 22

625 BCE

Answer 22

Etruscan pottery and houses with tiled roofs suggest that the Etruscans are moving into Rome, the Forum gets drained using the cloaca maxima

Question 23

550 BCE

Answer 23

the Senate House (Curia Hostilia) gets built

Question 24

525 BCE

Answer 24

Sacred Way, Regia (king’s house), and the Jupiter Optimus Maximus temple are built

Question 25

509 BCE

Answer 25

conspiracy against the rule of Etruscan kings

Question 26

494 BCE

Answer 26

First Secession of the Plebs