Rome

Question 1

Why did people from Sparta and other cities move to Rome?

Answer 1

To start new colonies

Question 2

While Sparta and Athens rose power another city named _________ was growing too!

Answer 2

Rome

Question 3

What type of land is Rome?

Answer 3

Peninsula

Question 4

The _____ border Italy.

Answer 4

Alps

Question 5

What mountains form the “backbone” of the Italian Peninsula?

Answer 5

Apennine

Question 6

How is Italy alike Greece?

Answer 6

Many mountains. Little fertile soil.

Question 7

What was an important plain?

Answer 7

Latium

Question 8

What river runs through the center of Latium?

Answer 8

Tiber River

Question 9

Who was Rome named after?

Answer 9

Romulous

Question 10

What river was the fine “highway” for travel?

Answer 10

Tiber

Question 11

What was the Latium Plain surrounded by?

Answer 11

Active Volcanoes

Question 12

What did the ashes of the active volcanoes bring?

Answer 12

fertile land

Question 13

What did Latium farmers grow?

Answer 13

Beans, cabbage, lettuce, figs and other fruits. And most importantly grapes!

Question 14

What did wine help with?

Answer 14

Healing people.

Question 15

What was Italy’s most important good?

Answer 15

Wine!

Question 16

What was a group of peoples before founding Rome?

Answer 16

Etructians

Question 17

What did the Etructians do after they conquered much of the Italian Peninsula?

Answer 17

Led victories to many Latanium neighbors.

Question 18

What Chinese king did Romans overthrow?

Answer 18

Tarquinius.

Question 19

What stood atop Rome’s hills?

Answer 19

A temple.

Question 20

What were the 2 groups called that Rome was divided into??

Answer 20

Plebeians and Patricians

Question 21

What did plebeians do?

Answer 21

Men who farmed, traded, and made things for a living.

Question 22

Who were Partitions?

Answer 22

Members whopper members of Rome’s nobles families. They owned farms and had plebeians work the land for them.

Question 23

What happened after Rome’s last king was overthrown?

Answer 23

Partitions took power.

Question 24

Since plebeians rebelled what did Livy do?

Answer 24

He sent a popular leader to speak with them.

Question 25

what does republic mean?

Answer 25

The new government that meant “public things”.

Question 26

What were Roman citizens allowed to do that Athenians could not?

Answer 26

Vote for Representatives.

Question 27

How long did Rome’s republic last?

Answer 27

500 years

Question 28

What were the 3 different branches that were run by city affairs during Rome’s republic?

Answer 28

The Senate Tribunes and Consuls.

Question 29

Which branch was the oldest ands ruled by partitions?

Answer 29

The Senate

Question 30

What were tribunes?

Answer 30

Plebeians who worked to gain rights for the Plebeians of Rome.

Question 31

What could happen at a citizen assembly?

Answer 31

People could veto, or stop, any of the consuls actions.

Question 32

Rome was _________ shared.

Answer 32

Unevenly shared.

Question 33

Partitions and Plebeians agreed to write a collection of written laws or ____________________ _____________.

Answer 33

Twelve Tables

Question 34

The forum was ____________________________

Answer 34

where people posted the Twelve Tables

Question 35

How did the republic expand?

Answer 35

Roman army conquered more areas.