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World History Chapter 8 Flashcards

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1
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What year was Rome founded

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753 BC.

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Another name for Italy

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Apennine Peninsula

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Who were the ancestors of the Romans

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The Itali

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Common marketplace or meeting place for Latin settlers

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Forum

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A seafaring people from Asia Minor who appeared in Italy about 800 B.C.

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The Etruscans

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Two social classes developed by the Etruscans

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Patricians (upper-class insiders)
Plebeians (lower-class outsiders)

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A temple dedicated to the numerous gods of the Roman Empire

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Pantheon

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Slave hired to tutor and discipline Greek sons

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Pedagogue

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A group of citizens, in an ancient Greek and Roman democracy, with the power to pass laws

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Assembly

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In ancient Rome, the supreme governing body originally made up only of aristocrats

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Senate

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The branch of the Roman republic that voted on you laws, and made declarations of war

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Assembly of centuries

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Group of people that began colonizing the Mediterranean world extensively during the 700s B.C.

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Greeks

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“Greater Greece”

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Magna Graecia

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City founded in 814 B.C.

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Carthage

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Wild Celtic barbarians from Western Europe

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Gauls

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What are the Roman ideals

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Pietas (piety)
Gravitas (gravity)
Dignitas (dignity)

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In what year did the nobles of Rome lead a revolt of both patricians and plebeians against the tyranny of the last Etruscan king, Tarquin the Proud?

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509 B.C.

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18
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What became Rome’s two greatest contributions to Western civilization

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Her republican form of limited, representative government
Her reverence for the rule of law

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Roman military units of 3000-5000 foot soldiers and cavalry

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Légions

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20
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Which group of people were the one major rivals of the western Mediterranean

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Carthage

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21
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Who fought in the Punic Wars?

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Rome and Carthage

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Who won the First Punic War?

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Rome

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Carthaginian général that annihilated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae

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Hannibal

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Roman général that was dispatched to North Africa to fight Hannibal; what was the name of the battle

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Scipio; thé Battle of Zama

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Who won the Battle of Zama?

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The Romans

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Who participated in the Third Punic War?

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Thé Numidians, the Romans, and the Carthaginians

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What did the Romans do to the Carthaginians in the third Punic War?

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They burned Carthage for 17 days and poured salt all the over the land to prevent it from growing food?

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By the year ….., the Romans were he masters of the Mediterranean world

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133 B.C.

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What problems did the Romans encounter because of the expansion of their land?

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Moral breakdown and economic decline

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30
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What did the rich Romans give the poor Romans

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“Bread and circuses”

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Évent in which prisoners of war, slaves, or criminals were forced to fight in public shows

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Gladiators

32
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Who became tribune in 133 B.C.

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Tiberius Gracchus

33
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Who was elected tribune in 123 BC. after his brother

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Gaius Gracchus

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which two people fought Rome’s first civil war? idol of the masses? Champion of the senate? who ended up winning?

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Marius and Sulla; Marius; Sulla; Sulla

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who were the two chief competitors after Sulla’s death

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Pompey and Julius Ceasar

36
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Alliance formed by Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus/ meaning «rule by three men»

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First Triumvirate

37
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Who was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty

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Cleopatra

38
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Who introduced the Julian Calendar

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Julius Caesar

39
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Julius Caesar’s date of death

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March 15, 44 B.C.

40
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Where Caesar lead his army to in order to attack Rome

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The Rubicon River

41
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Which three peoples formed the Second Triumvirate

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Mark Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus

42
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Republican Rome’s greatest orator and statesman

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Cicero

43
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Where did Octavian defeat Antony’s fleet in 31 B.C.

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Actium

44
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Which brothers tried to bring aid to the poor and reform to Rome?

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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

45
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Who were the opposing generals in Rome’s first civil war?

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Marius and Sulla

46
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Who was the great Roman orator and statesman assassinated by the Second Triumvirate

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Cicero

47
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In which naval battle was the fleet of Antony defeated by Octavian

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Actium

48
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What are the titles attributed to Octavian

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Princeps
Caesar
Imperator
Pontifex Maximus
Augustus

49
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What does the New Testament refer to Octavian as

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Caesar Augustus

50
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Jesus Christ was born around …..?….. in Bethlehem of ….?…..

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4 B.C.; Judaea

51
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Who were the Claudian emperors? Which one ruled during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ? Which one initiated the first great outbreak of persecution against the Christians?

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  1. A series of rulers after Caesar Augustus’s death
  2. Tiberius
  3. Nero
52
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Under Caesar Augustus began the famed Pax …..?….. from ….-….

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Romana ; 30 B.C.- A.D. 180

53
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Who were the Flavian emperors

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Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian

54
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In …?… Titus captured Jerusalem

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A.D. 70

55
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Who were the “Five Good” emperors

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Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Antonius Pius
Marcus Aurelius

56
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Diocletian ruled as Augustus in West

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East

57
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Who became the Augustus of the West

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Maximian

58
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What are Rome’s greatest contributions to civilization

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Latin language
Roman law
Republican government

59
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What is common every Latin called

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Vernacular or Vulgar Latin

60
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…?…. Latin is spoken and understood by churchmen and scholars all over Western Europe

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Medieval

61
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What is the source of about one half of the words in the English language

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Latin

62
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Time frame from the birth of Cicero to the death of Augustus

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Golden Age of Latin Literature

63
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Who was the greatest poet of the Golden Age?

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Virgil

64
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Epic poem written by Virgil that describes the legendary events that led to the founding of Rome

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Aeneid

65
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Who became Rome’s leading poem after Virgil’s death

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Horace

66
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What is Horace’s lyric called

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Odes

67
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Whose work transmitted classical Greco-Roman mythology to the modern world

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Ovid

68
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Greek biographer best known for his masterpiece “Parallel Lives”

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Plutarch

69
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What are the chief principles of Roman law?

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  • single sovereignty
  • universality
  • equity
70
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The notion that all law derived from a single central source

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Single sovereignty

71
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The belief that all men share a common human nature

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Universality

72
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The principle that laws should be sufficiently flexible to fit a large number of particular cases

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Equity

73
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What is Rome’s greatest heritage in the realm of law?

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Justinian Code

74
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What is the focal point of all world history

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The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

75
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Muscles always (push/pull), they never (push/pull)

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Pull, push

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