Rome Test~1/10/17

Question 1

What country is Rome located in?

Answer 1

Italy

Question 2

What land form is Italy?

Answer 2

Peninsula

Question 3

Where was Rome generally located in Italy?

Answer 3

Middle

Question 4

Where were the fertile plains of Italy?

Answer 4

In the north and the west

Question 5

Who were the first form of civilization for Rome?

Answer 5

Latins

Question 6

When did the Latins migrate into Italy?

Answer 6

800BC

Question 7

Where did the Latins settle?

Answer 7

The Tiber River

Question 8

Who were the second form of civilization for Rome?

Answer 8

Etruscans

Question 9

When did the Etruscans appear?

Answer 9

500BC

Question 10

What was Rome’s first form of government?

Answer 10

Monarchy

Question 11

Who overthrew the monarchy?

Answer 11

Brutus overthrew the monarchy.

Question 12

What was Rome’s second form of government?

Answer 12

Republic

Question 13

What is a republic?

Answer 13

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives.

Question 14

How many Censors were there and what did they do?

Answer 14

2 Censors collected taxes.

Question 15

How many Consuls were there and what did they do?

Answer 15

2 Consuls, one to act as a president and the other leading the military.

Question 16

How many Dictators were there and when were they in power?

Answer 16

There was 1 dictator and they were only in power for the duration of war (led during that time.)

Question 17

How many Praetors were there and what were they?

Answer 17

There were 8 Praetors, they acted as judges.

Question 18

How many Aediles were there and what did they do?

Answer 18

There were 4 Aediles and they were planners.

Question 19

How many Quaestors were there and what did they have control over?

Answer 19

There were 20 Quaestors and they kept track of treasury and military.

Question 20

How many Tribunes were there and what group of people did they represent?

Answer 20

There were 10 Tribunes and they represented the plebians.

Question 21

Who were the Patricians?

Answer 21

The landholding upper class of Rome

Question 22

Who were the Plebians?

Answer 22

Farmers, merchants, and artisans.

Question 23

Did males or females have more power?

Answer 23

Males had more power than females in the household.

Question 24

Did women have more rights in Rome than in Greece?

Answer 24

Yes, some even owned property and ran businesses but most worked at home.

Question 25

Did only males or only females get education in Rome?

Answer 25

All children got equal education despite their classes.

Question 26

Was Rome’s religion polytheistic or monotheistic?

Answer 26

Polytheistic, they adapted religion from the Greeks.

Question 27

When was Caesar born?

Answer 27

100BC

Question 28

What three people were involved with the First Triumirate?

Answer 28

Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey

Question 29

When was Caesar betrayed and stabbed to death?

Answer 29

44BC