The Ancient Rome

Question 1

Who created Rome?

Answer 1

Romulus and Remus

Question 2

Why did Romulus kill Remus?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What did the senate do in the monarchy?

Answer 4

They ellected the new king

Question 5

Who was the last king in the monarchy?

Answer 5

Tarquin The Proud (he was expelled)

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Whats the Compilation Of Laws?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is the Consul? (Republic)

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

What is the Senate? (Republic)

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Against who were the punic wars?

Answer 12

The punic wars were against Carthage

Question 13

Who won the Punic Wars?

Answer 13

Rome defeated Carthage in the 149 B.C.

Question 14

When did they arrived at Greece?

Answer 14

They arrived at Greece in the 146 B.C.

Question 15

When did they arrived at Hispania?

Answer 15

They arrived at Hispania in the 218 B.C

Question 16

How many time lasted the war against Hispania?

Answer 16

It lasted 200 years.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Rome was giving the citizenship to all these conquered territories.

Question 18

What were the consequences of the conquest?

Answer 18

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)

Question 19

What demmanded the plebeians in their revolt?

Answer 19

They demmanded a better distribution of lands.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Who were the consuls in 49 B.C?

Answer 21

Ponpeius and Julius Caesar.

Question 22

What did they do?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

When and who killed Julius Caesar?

Answer 24

Brutus and Casius killed him in the 46 B.C

Question 25

Who killed Brutus and Casius?

Answer 25

Octavian and Marcus Antonius killed them

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Who won the Battle of Actium? And when?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

He burned Alexandria and made them to suicide.

Question 29

What happened on the 27 B.C.?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

When did the Empire began? And finished?

Answer 30

27 B.C - 476. A.C

Question 31

How was the structure in the Empire?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Here started the Pax Romana

Question 33

What’s the Pax Romana

Answer 33

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”

Question 34

Caligula 37-41 A.C (explain)

Answer 34

He want to name his horse 🐴 a consul

Question 35

Claudius 41-54 A.C (explain)

Answer 35

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.

Question 36

Nero 54-68 A.C (explain)

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

Vespasian 69-79 A.C (explain)

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Titus 79-81 A.C (explain)

Answer 38

79. Vesubian volcanoe 🗻erupted and destruyed Pompei | 80. Coliseum was opened

Question 39

Trajan 98-117 A.C. (explain)

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Hadrian 117-138 A.C. (explain)

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Caracalla 198-217 A.C (explain)

Answer 41

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

Question 42

When did the Pax Romana end?

Answer 42

In the crisis of the 3rd century

Question 43

Who tried to solve the problem in the crisis?

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

The army.

Question 45

Constantine 324-337 A.C. (explain)

Answer 45

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.

Question 46

Theodosius 379-395 A.C. (explain)

Answer 46

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.

Question 47

Who was the last emperor?

Answer 47

Romulus Augustulus