Roman Empire

Question 1

By 800 BC this is the dominant culture

Romans borrowed ideas from them

Answer 1

Etruscans

Question 2

The rich/wealthy
More influence than the poor
Created tribunes

Answer 2

Patricians

Question 3

Represent rome and usually two so one can be a check and balances on the other

Answer 3

Consuls

Question 4

Election to elect yearly representatives of Rome

Answer 4

Centuriate assembly

Question 5

The poor free citizens

Answer 5

Plebeians

Question 6

Plebeian assembly able to elect their own consuls

Answer 6

Tribal assembly

Question 7

Wars against Carthage

Who can get central Sicily

Answer 7

Punic Wars

Question 8

Military leader of Carthage

Won victory in Italy over in Rome

Answer 8

Hannibal

Question 9

Farm land/ plantations

Worked by slaves

Answer 9

Latifundia

Question 10

Elected consul in 107 BC
Had a prob to recruit soldiers
Solved it by bribing soldiers that they’ll have a plot of land after being there for 16 yrs
Resulted in loyalty to general and not to law

Answer 10

Marius

Question 11

After Marius’s death he takes over and becomes dictator

Steps down in 79 BC

Answer 11

Sulla

Question 12

First triumvirate

Answer 12

Crasus, rompey, Julius Caesar

Question 13

Introduced reforms: population, reformed th calendar called the Julian calendar
Unpopular w Senate: 44 BC he becomes assassinated

Answer 13

Julius Caesar

Question 14

Second Triumvirate

Answer 14

Mark Antony
Octavia Mom
Leupedis

Question 15

Becomes ruler/dictator for 40 yrs

Renamed himself Augustus

Answer 15

Octavian

Question 16

Battle of Actium

Answer 16

Mark Antony v Octavian to decide who will rule Rome

Octavian won and Mark Antony commits suicide