roman imperialism

Question 1

When was Rome founded?

Answer 1

753 BCE

Question 2

When is the founding of Rome to the Republican Period?

Answer 2

753 -509 BCE

Question 3

What are the 5 Key Names?

Answer 3

1. Alba Long (city)
2. Romulus and Remus
3. Rhea Silvia (mother)
4. Numitor
5. Amulius

Question 4

Who is Aeneas?

Answer 4

Trojan hero who survives the Trojan War

Question 5

Which city did Aeneas find?

Answer 5

Lavinium

Question 6

Who found Alba Longa?

Answer 6

Aeneas song Lulus

Question 7

Who found Alba Longa?

Answer 7

Romulus and Remus (last in royal line from Aeneas)

Question 8

Who claimed descent from Aeneas?

Answer 8

Julius Ceaser, (thru him Augustus) and by extension, Aphrodite

Question 9

How did Romulus populate Rome? (mythology)

Answer 9

1. criminals

2. Sabine women

Question 10

Who are the Seven Kings of Rome? (753-509 BCE)

Answer 10

1. Romulus
2. Numa Pompilius
3. Tullus Hostilius
4. Tarquinius Priscus (Etruscan)
5. Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud)

Question 11

After the expulsion of the kings and establishment of the republic in 509 BCE who was the King of Rome?

Answer 11

Lucius Junius Brutus

Question 12

When was there a conflict in Rome with Italy?

Answer 12

3rd and 2nd c. BCE

Question 13

When was the conflict between Rome and the Latins?

Answer 13

340-338 BCE

Question 14

When was the conflict between Rome and the Samnites?

Answer 14

326-282 c. BCE

Question 15

When was the conflict between Etruscans and Gauls?

Answer 15

326-282 c. BCE

Question 16

What is the early 3rd c. Greeks in Southern Italy?

Answer 16

Kind Pyrrhus: 208 and 279 BCE

Question 17

When and who was the Punic War with?

Answer 17

Rome vs Carthage 3rd c. BCE

Question 18

Which three cities does Rome take control of in the First Punic War in 2640-241 BC

Answer 18

1. Sicily
2. Sardinia
3. Corscia

Question 19

When was the Second Punic War?

Answer 19

218 to 201 BCE

Question 20

Who wins Second Punic War?

Answer 20

Rome defeats Carthage: becomes dominant power in the western Meditterranean

Question 21

When is the destruction of Carthage and Final conquest of Greece?

Answer 21

146 BCE

Question 22

when was the year of the destruction of Carthage and Final Conquest of Greece?

Answer 22

146 BCe

Question 23

When was the assissination of Roman politician Tiberius Sempronius Graachus? (agrarian reform law)

Answer 23

133 BCE

Question 24

What years are the social wars?

Answer 24

91-87 BCE

Question 25

What year are the Mithridatic Wars?

Answer 25

89/88-63 BCE

Question 26

What are the Mirthridates Wars?

Answer 26

when King Mirthridates (Kingdom of Pontus annexes Roman province of Asia and supports Greek uprising

Question 27

When was the end of the Republican Party?

Answer 27

1st c. BCE

Question 28

What was the first Triumvirate?

Answer 28

60 BCE (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus)

Question 29

What year did Julius Ceasar conquer Gaul (France)?

Answer 29

58-50 BCE

Question 30

Which year did Caesar first land in Britain?

Answer 30

55 BCE

Question 31

When did the First Triumvirate break down?

Answer 31

49 BCE Caesar crosses the Rubicon River with his army leading to civil war

Question 32

Which year did Caesar defeat Pompey’s forces and enters Rome and makes himself dictator?

Answer 32

46 BCE

Question 33

Which year was the Ides of March? What was it?

Answer 33

44 BCE and Cesar’s assissination by members of the senate

Question 34

Who make up the 2nd Triumvirate? and When?

Answer 34

43-32 BC Octavian, Mark Anthony, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Triumvirate breaks down and civil war breaks out (Octaavian vs Mark Anthony and Cleopatra)

Question 35

Which year did Octavian defeat Anthony and Cleopatra end the internal conflicts that followed Caesar’s death?

Answer 35

31 BCE

Question 36

Which year was the formal establishment of the Principate with Octavian as first citizen in theory, emperor in practice (given title Augustus)

Answer 36

27 BCE

Question 37

What year was the reign of Augustus?

Answer 37

27 BCE- 14 CE