Rome Flashcards
Why did people from Sparta and other cities move to Rome?
To start new colonies
While Sparta and Athens rose power another city named _________ was growing too!
Rome
What type of land is Rome?
Peninsula
The _____ border Italy.
Alps
What mountains form the “backbone” of the Italian Peninsula?
Apennine
How is Italy alike Greece?
Many mountains. Little fertile soil.
What was an important plain?
Latium
What river runs through the center of Latium?
Tiber River
Who was Rome named after?
Romulous
What river was the fine “highway” for travel?
Tiber
What was the Latium Plain surrounded by?
Active Volcanoes
What did the ashes of the active volcanoes bring?
fertile land
What did Latium farmers grow?
Beans, cabbage, lettuce, figs and other fruits. And most importantly grapes!
What did wine help with?
Healing people.
What was Italy’s most important good?
Wine!
What was a group of peoples before founding Rome?
Etructians
What did the Etructians do after they conquered much of the Italian Peninsula?
Led victories to many Latanium neighbors.
What Chinese king did Romans overthrow?
Tarquinius.
What stood atop Rome’s hills?
A temple.
What were the 2 groups called that Rome was divided into??
Plebeians and Patricians
What did plebeians do?
Men who farmed, traded, and made things for a living.
Who were Partitions?
Members whopper members of Rome’s nobles families. They owned farms and had plebeians work the land for them.
What happened after Rome’s last king was overthrown?
Partitions took power.
Since plebeians rebelled what did Livy do?
He sent a popular leader to speak with them.
what does republic mean?
The new government that meant “public things”.
What were Roman citizens allowed to do that Athenians could not?
Vote for Representatives.
How long did Rome’s republic last?
500 years
What were the 3 different branches that were run by city affairs during Rome’s republic?
The Senate Tribunes and Consuls.
Which branch was the oldest ands ruled by partitions?
The Senate
What were tribunes?
Plebeians who worked to gain rights for the Plebeians of Rome.
What could happen at a citizen assembly?
People could veto, or stop, any of the consuls actions.
Rome was _________ shared.
Unevenly shared.
Partitions and Plebeians agreed to write a collection of written laws or ____________________ _____________.
Twelve Tables
The forum was ____________________________
where people posted the Twelve Tables
How did the republic expand?
Roman army conquered more areas.
