History Test Flashcards
Roman architecture features
1) influenced by Hellenistic
2) used concrete
3) used arch and vaulted dome
Story of Spartacus
1) Thracian by birth
2) roman soldier
3) prisoner
4) sold to be a gladiator
5) gladiator school in Capua
6) ran away to Mt. Vesuvius
7) army of 70,000
8) sacrificed 300 prisoners
9) vs. Crassus
10) 6,000 captured and crucified
What are aqueducts?
1) underground tunnel and bridge like structures used to transport water from the mountains
2) their were 11
What is the colosseum?
1) seated 50,000
2) used for gladiator combat
3) Vespasian first built it
4) needed 6 acres
5) built over a lake
6) sold Jews for money
7) brick factories
8) opened when Titus was emperor
What is the pantheon?
1) temple for the gods
2) roof called oculus
3) domed roof
4) portico
What is circus Maximus?
1) seated 260,000
2) chariot racing
What is Hadrian’s Wall?
1) built by soldiers
2) ordered by Hadrian
3) built in Britain
4) marked north boundary
Who is Cicero?
1) famous orator of the republic
2) wrote on politics
Who is Virgil?
1) roman poet
2) wrote Aeneid sequel to homers Iliad
Who is Galen?
1) Greek doctor
2) lived in Rome
3) organized and summarized all medical info
Carthage
1) established by Dido
2) located in Africa
3) rich and big
4) sewer system
5) harbor with two parts
6) Sicily
7) conquered Spain
8) Hannibal defeated by Rome
9) Cato threatened by Carthage
10) Rome burnt Carthage to ground
What was the Julius clan?
1) Augustus
2) Tiberius
3) Caligula
4) Claudius
5) Nero
What’s after the Julius clan?
6) Vespasian
7) Titus
8) Domitian
Latium plain?
South of Tiber river
Rights of the plebeians
1) choose 10 tribunes each year
2) call a veto
3) twelve table were made
4) marry patricians
5) hold office consul
6) sit in senate
7) assembly could pass laws without senates approval
