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Who created Rome?

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Romulus and Remus

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Why did Romulus kill Remus?

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Because Romulus put limits to enter the city and Remus entered and because of that was killed by Romulus.

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When did the monarchy begin? And when did it finished?

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The monarchy began in the year 753 B.C. and finished in the 509 B.C.

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What did the senate do in the monarchy?

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They ellected the new king

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Who was the last king in the monarchy?

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Tarquin The Proud (he was expelled)

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When did the republic begin? And when did it finished?

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The republic began in the year 509 B.C. and finished in the 27 B.C.

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Whats the Compilation Of Laws?

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The Compilation Of Laws is when both plebeians and patricians were considerated CITIZENS: they had the same rights and duties.(Year 451 B.C.)

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What is the Consul? (Republic)

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The consul were the 2 persons that governed Rome and command the army. They were ellected and controlled by the the senate, and the were in power 1 year.

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What is the Senate? (Republic)

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The senate approves budget and made laws. It was composed by patricians +/- 300

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How was the army called? Who composed the army? (Republic)

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The army was called LEGIONS and was composed by slaves and allies.

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Whats the name of the last italian city conquered? And when did conquered it?

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It was called Tarent, and they conquered it in the 272 B.C.

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Against who were the punic wars?

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The punic wars were against Carthage

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Who won the Punic Wars?

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Rome defeated Carthage in the 149 B.C.

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When did they arrived at Greece?

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They arrived at Greece in the 146 B.C.

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When did they arrived at Hispania?

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They arrived at Hispania in the 218 B.C

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16
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How many time lasted the war against Hispania?

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It lasted 200 years.

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17
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What was giving Rome to those conquered territories? (Republic)

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Rome was giving the citizenship to all these conquered territories.

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18
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What were the consequences of the conquest?

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ECONOMY,POLITICAL,SOCIAL

ECONOMY: more lands available; distribution of lands between peasants.
SLAVES: new people to work (lands and army)
MONEY: to invest in improvements

POLITICAL: difficult to govern such a great territory. CORRUPTION

SOCIAL: plebeians wanted a better distribution of lands. SLAVES MADE A REVOLT (ESPARTACUS)

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What demmanded the plebeians in their revolt?

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They demmanded a better distribution of lands.

20
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Who was the leader of the revolt? And who kill him?

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The leader of the revolt was Gracus and the senate kill him.

21
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Who were the consuls in 49 B.C?

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Ponpeius and Julius Caesar.

22
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What did they do?

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PONPEIUS: Conquered Middle East, stoped the piracy and the revolt of Espartacus.
JULIUS CAESAR: Conquered Gaul, Britannia and Germania.

23
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When did Ponpeius and Caesar fight? Who won the battle?

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They fought in the 46 B.C. and Ponpeius was defeated.

24
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When and who killed Julius Caesar?

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Brutus and Casius killed him in the 46 B.C

25
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Who killed Brutus and Casius?

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Octavian and Marcus Antonius killed them

26
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Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra wanted to take the …………….. against ………………

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Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra wanted to take the POWER OF ROME against OCTAVIAN.

27
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Who won the Battle of Actium? And when?

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Octavian defeated M.A. in the 31 B.C.

28
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What did Octavian do after winning the war against M.A.?

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He burned Alexandria and made them to suicide.

29
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What happened on the 27 B.C.?

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That Octavian was proclamed Emperor by the senate and concentrated all the powers.

30
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When did the Empire began? And finished?

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27 B.C - 476. A.C

31
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How was the structure in the Empire?

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The Empire maintained the same structure of the Republic but it was an Emperor with all the powers and considered a God.

32
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Augustus 27 B.C- 14 A.C (explain)

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Here started the Pax Romana

33
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What’s the Pax Romana

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In the Pax Romana people didn’t fight and they had free time: Circus, theatre, gladiators… He distributed free bread and food to plebeians. BREAD 🍞 + SPECTACLES= Panem et circenses»>“pan y circo”

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Caligula 37-41 A.C (explain)

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He want to name his horse 🐴 a consul

35
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Claudius 41-54 A.C (explain)

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He was a good emperor and proposed a reformation in education. But his wife Agripina poisoned him with mushrooms 🍄 to make his son Nero the new Emperor.

36
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Nero 54-68 A.C (explain)

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When he became a Emperor he killed his mother. He started the persecution to Cristians. He fired rome and the city was almost destroyed. He suicided.

37
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Vespasian 69-79 A.C (explain)

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Since that moment, the pretorian guard is going to decide whos going to be the next emperor. He expand the territory in Europe.

38
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Titus 79-81 A.C (explain)

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  1. Vesubian volcanoe 🗻erupted and destruyed Pompei

80. Coliseum was opened

39
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Trajan 98-117 A.C. (explain)

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Rome achieved its maximun extension during these times. Trajan was born in Hispania.

40
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Hadrian 117-138 A.C. (explain)

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He made a lot of fortifications in the borders> > Wall of Hadrian
He made the Pantheon 🏛 in Rome

41
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Caracalla 198-217 A.C (explain)

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He gave Roman citizenship to all the inhabitants of the Empire in 212 A.C.

42
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When did the Pax Romana end?

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In the crisis of the 3rd century

43
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Who tried to solve the problem in the crisis?

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The Emperor Diocletian tried to solve this problems and he achieved that he had been a slave.

44
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In the 3rd crisis who proclaimed or killed the emperors?

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The army.

45
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Constantine 324-337 A.C. (explain)

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When Diocletian died, the Empire was divided into 4. Constantine reunified the whole Empire.
He made the christianism legal and converted in the 333 A.C.

46
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Theodosius 379-395 A.C. (explain)

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He made the christianism the official religion in the Roman Empire in 340 A.C.
He divided the Empire into 2 to protect it.
WESTERN: Honorius, until 476 A.C
EASTERN: Arcadius, until 1453 A.C. as Bizantine Empire.

47
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Who was the last emperor?

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Romulus Augustulus

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