Rome

Question 1

Pleabians

Answer 1

Lower class

Question 2

Patricians

Answer 2

Upper class

Question 3

Republican period

Answer 3

Tension between upper and lower class.
Through compromise and negotiation, Plebians gained greater social and political equality.
rome began expanding into a Mediterranean power-By

Question 4

Senate

Answer 4

Dominated by Patrician class.

Most important governing body.

Question 5

Punic Wars

Answer 5

Three campaigns spanning from 264-146BCE against Carthage.

Question 6

Carthage

Answer 6

A phoenician colony on the African coast.

Serious rival to Rome.

Question 7

Collapse of Roman Republic

Answer 7

Rapid territorial gain caused a number of political, economic, and socials throughout first century CE.
Small farmers went bankrupt-falling grain prices and increase in slave labor.
Urban poor joined violent mobs.

Question 8

Pax Romana

Answer 8

Roman Peace lasting 200 years. 20BCE-180CE

Question 9

Roman civil wars

Answer 9

91-30 BCE

Republican government began to fail.

Question 10

Julius Caesar

Answer 10

Assumed doctoral leadership during second civil war(49-45BCE). Assassinated in 44 BCE by the senators.
Republic came to an end in 31BCE.

Question 11

Roman Empire

Answer 11

Remained in place for apps. 500 years. 31 BCE to 476CE.

First emperor was Octavian-Julius Caesar’s grand nephew. Renamed himself Augustus.

Question 12

Caesar Augustus

Answer 12

Restored order, revived roman strength and wealth.

had a long reign as a respected ruler.

Question 13

Emperor

Answer 13

Power grew over time

Rome’s military and economic power grew.

Question 14

Splitting if Rome

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Eastern half separated in 300sCE and formally broke away in 395 CE

Question 15

Fall of Rome

Answer 15

Centuries of attacks by tribes left the empire open to attack by 400s CE. Rome itself sacked by Gothic tribes in 410CE. Goths took over completely in 476CE.