Rome

Question 1

Romulus and Remus

Answer 1

Demi-god twins raised by wolves/woodpecker, realized they were royal, Romulus killed Remus, Rome was created

Question 2

Aeneas

Answer 2

Trojan hero/refugee of Troy in Virgil’s Aeneid

Question 3

Etruscans

Answer 3

Originally from Anatolia, colonized Italy until Celtics, Greeks, and finally Romans invaded, who borrowed bronze, religion, (originally greek>) calendar, olives/grapes, alphabet, and military legions in phalanx formation

Question 4

Social classes?

Answer 4

Patricians (landowners) and plebeians (commoners)

Question 5

Roman republic organization?

Answer 5

Representative democracy of 2 consuls (exec.) praetor (jud.) 300 senate, assemblies of people, tribunes (legis.)

Question 6

Roman forum

Answer 6

Center of political and legal activity (senate, assemblies, trials, etc)

Question 7

Consuls

Answer 7

2 consuls, 1 yr term, commander of legions (army), kingly power, head of state, during war Romans chose a dictator

Question 8

Praetor

Answer 8

Judges court, assumed authority when a consul was away

Question 9

Senate

Answer 9

300 aristocratic elders, served for life, advised consuls, made and ratified laws

Question 10

Assemblies of the people

Answer 10

Centuriate and Tribal assembly voted on legislative

Question 11

Tribunes

Answer 11

Legislators elected by plebeians, to prevent civil war

Question 12

Magistrates

Answer 12

High govt officials who advised

Question 13

Twelve Tables

Answer 13

Written law code (everyone innocent until proven guilty, everyone equal under law, right for jury, criminal law, civil rights law, family, debt , business etc)

Question 14

Punic wars

Answer 14

Rome vs Carthage, Rome won b/c general Hannibal of carth tried to conquer surrounding land with elephants but his soldiers grew tired by the time they reached Rome and we defeated so land they conquered was gained/start of empire outside Italy

Question 15

1st Triumvirate

Answer 15

1st triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus), rises in popularity, names self dictator, centralize govt, land to poor, building projects, aristocrats threatened/assassinate

Question 16

2nd Triumvirate

Answer 16

(Caesars grandnephew) Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus, divided empire with Antony taking east with Cleopatra Egypt, Octavian kills them thought they were taking over Rome (renames himself Princeps), end of republic begins empire (renames himself Augustus)

Question 17

Augustus’ Empire

Answer 17

Monarchy disguises as republic w/ senate, increase centralization of political/military

Question 18

Pax Romana

Answer 18

Roman peace (roadwork [The Appian Way], trade, concrete, aqueducts, sewage, colosseum, Circus Maximus, gladiator games “bread and circuses” distracted ppl from boredom, poor class increase, rich richer) “5 good emperors” after Augustus’ death

Question 19

Paterfamilias

Answer 19

Dominant males, sons/male relative guardian, arranged young marraige

Question 20

Slavery

Answer 20

1/3 of pop, feared for murdering owners, more slaves more prestige

Question 21

Diocletian

Answer 21

Split the empire into east and west

Question 22

German groups that invaded western Rome

Answer 22

the Huns (like from that awful movie Mulan) and the franks

Question 23

Fall of western Rome

Answer 23

Invasion of Huns/Visigoths, inflation, Rome enters the dark/ Middle Ages 476, 1000 yrs later Byzantine empire invaded by Ottoman Empire Turks

Question 24

Christianity

Answer 24

teaching of Jesus of Nazareth (Palestinian Jew grew up in Galilee), not tolerated by polytheistic Romans and Jews, offered hope to poor

Question 25

Edict of Milan

Answer 25

Issued by Constantine, created tolerance of Christianity

Question 26

Acceptors or Christianity

Answer 26

Constantine: accepted Christianity as his own religionTheodosius: made Christianity the state religion

Question 27

Crucifixion

Answer 27

the Romans way to kill Jesus and followers of Christianity were crucified. After Christianity became the state religion crucifixion was used to kill a non follower

Question 28

Jews and the Romans

Answer 28

At first both groups were tolerant then the Jews revolted and the Romans burned down the temple in Jerusalem

Question 29

Constantine

Answer 29

Moved capital to Constantinople in the eastern half of the Roman Empire (Byzantium)