Rome

Question 1

Who essentially founded Rome?

Answer 1

Romulus and Remus

Question 2

What was the year Rome was founded?

Answer 2

753

Question 3

What was the significance in 509?

Answer 3

When the Roman Republic was founded

Question 4

What Greek aspect has finished?

Answer 4

There superpower/military strength

Question 5

How many empires divided after Alexander The Great?

Answer 5

4 after his 4 main generals

Question 6

What do Romans speak?

Answer 6

Latin and Greek

Question 7

What are some ways that Greece has influenced Rome?

Answer 7

Art/Sculpture/Architecture
Religion/Mythology
Philosophy and Rhetoric

Question 8

True or False: Greek city-states set up colonies in Southern Italy

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Why is Italy a central location for trade and safe transport?

Answer 9

The Italian Peninsula juts into the Mediterranean Sea

Question 9

Who was Romulus and Remus raised by?

Answer 9

Wolves

Question 10

Why does Romulus kill Remus?

Answer 10

Because Remus gets jealous that Romulus built this great city and Romulus kills him in a fit of rage

Question 11

Where was Rome built on?

Answer 11

Tiber River

Question 12

Who did Romulus descend from?

Answer 12

Aeneas, who after the Trojan War came to Italy and settled in the area of Rome (Latium)

Question 13

Who exapnded and built colonies in Early Rome?

Answer 13

Etruscans

Question 14

Who destroyed the Etrsucans?

Answer 14

Romans

Question 15

How long did Early Rome last?

Answer 15

753-509

Question 16

Who was considered the first Italians?

Answer 16

Etruscans

Question 17

What happened in 509?

Answer 17

Rome is set up as a Republic

Question 18

What is democracy?

Answer 18

Rule of the people, majority rules

Question 19

What is republic?

Answer 19

Elected leaders make decisions on people’ behalf and are bound by the law

Question 20

What is the U.S.?

Answer 20

Democratic republic

Question 21

What is Democratic Republic?

Answer 21

We are a republic (bound by the law) but also a representative democracy

Question 22

Who are the Patricians?

Answer 22

Nobles/Wealthy elite/Landowners

Question 23

Who are the Plebeians?

Answer 23

Townspeople/Farmers/Laborers

Question 24

True or False: Both had rights and Plebians could vote

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or False: Plebians could marry Patricians by law in early Republic

Answer 25

False: They had to marry there own hierachy/class

Question 26

What is a magistrate?

Answer 26

Basic name for elected officals

Question 27

What is a consul?

Answer 27

2 of them had to agree, supreme power in republic

Question 28

Who was the supreme power?

Answer 28

Consul

Question 29

What is a dictator?

Answer 29

Leader whose law would overrule the consuls during time of need for 6 months

Question 30

What is a senator?

Answer 30

300 former magistrates, did not make laws but could advise magistrates

Question 31

How many senators were there?

Answer 31

300

Question 32

True or False: In order to be a senator they would have to be a former magistrate

Answer 32

True

Question 33

What are assemblies?

Answer 33

Made up of patricians and plebians main job to elect magistrates

Question 34

What are the tribunes?

Answer 34

Leaders of the plebians eventually had veto power

Question 35

What does veto mean?

Answer 35

I forbid

Question 36

How many parts are there in the tribune?

Answer 36

3 parts

Question 37

Who was one of the most admired dictators?

Answer 37

Cincinnatus

Question 38

Who was said to have been inspired by the fact that this dictator won a famous war then went to his farm?

Answer 38

George Washington

Question 39

What are the twelve tables?

Answer 39

Creation of a written code of laws

Question 40

Who demanded that laws needed to be written down?

Answer 40

Plebians

Question 41

What is a Roman Legion?

Answer 41

A battle formation

Question 42

What is a Centurion?

Answer 42

Professional leader of about 80 men in a legion

Question 43

What is Decimation?

Answer 43

A practice of beating/stoning every tenth man in a legion that tried to abandon a fight/mutiny against a leader

Question 44

How long is military service?

Answer 44

10 years

Question 45

What are Roman soldiers called?

Answer 45

Legionaries

Question 46

Who did the Romans go against in the Punic Wars?

Answer 46

Carthage

Question 47

What was the first war about? What was the second war about? What was the last war about?

Answer 47

Sicily Hannibal Destruction of Carthage

Question 48

Where was Hannibal from?

Answer 48

The Iberian Peninsula-Carthage had conquered it

Question 49

Why did Hannibal decide to march to Italy instead of use boats across the water?

Answer 49

Italy had allies that could block Hannibal and his crew and would slaughter his men before he even got to Italy

Question 50

How many elephants did Hannibal take through the Alps?

Answer 50

40

Question 51

Who was Scipio?

Answer 51

One of the greatest generals of Rome- who came up with a plan to defeat Carthage

Question 52

Why did the Romans put salt in African Soil?

Answer 52

So that if a new group arose there, there wouldn't be any way to get resources