Early Rome
The earliest inhabitants of Italy were a group of settlers from central Europe called_________.
What are Latins?
The Latins established a new form of government called a ___________. In this form of government, citizens can vote and control the power of government through officials they elect.
What is a republic?
The three major wars between Rome and Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
Name one of the problems that arose from Rome’s expansion.
What is
–Farmers who had left their farms to be soldiers came home to find their properties ruined from neglect?
–The wealthy profited from the wars?
–The plebeians tried to gain from selling their votes?
–The Senate increased in power and dominated the Republic?
–Publicans became despised in the Roman provinces?
After Ceasar's death, men were eager to take Ceasar's place and led Rome into a third civil war. Two men formed an alliance and divided the empire.
Who is Octavian and Mark Antony?
The Latins traveled to this peninsula.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
The newly established Roman republic was divided into three governing branches:
•Two patricians were elected as consuls in place of a king.
•The Senate, made up of three hundred patricians who served for life, was the most powerful branch.
•The Assembly of ________ was the most powerful of the groups of assemblies.
What is the Centuries?
Rome’s strength came from its military forces. The infantry was divided into legions.
What are military forces?
The name of an alliance among three rulers.
What is a triumvirate?
Octavian’s reign began a period of peace and prosperity that Rome enjoyed for the next 200 years. The name of this period is called this.
What is the Pax Romana?
The Phoenicians, Greeks, and _________ also inhabited the Italian Peninsula.
What are the Etruscans?
The plebeians were finally allowed to have their own assembly, which was called the __________ ____________.
What is the Tribal Assembly?
Rome battled Carthage for control of this sea and the lands along the coast.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Roman soldiers were more devoted to their commanders than to Rome. Name one commander.
Who Marius or Sulla?
A boy was enrolled as a Roman citizen when he turned this age. He was given an official citizen’s garment, a ______.
What is 16 and a toga?
The __________ made up the ruling class. They were the wealthy landowners and nobles.
The __________ made up the working class. They were the common people, such as farmers, traders, and craftsmen.
Answer in order.
What are the patricians and plebeians?
The plebeians pressured the Senate to write down the law. The Roman law was engraved on twelve bronze tablets. These tablets were called the ________________________________. The tablets were displayed in the Roman Forum.
What is the Law of the Twelve Tables?
During the First Punic War (264–241 BC) both Rome and Carthage wanted control of this city.
What is Sicily?
Name the three men that formed the triumvirate?
Who is Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar?
This man was known as the greatest orator of his day, and this man was considered the greatest Roman poet.
Who is Cicero and Virgil?
The _______ was used as a symbol of the king’s power.
What is fasces?
The name of a leader of the Tribal Assembly in ancient Rome.
What is tribune?
During this war, Hannibal marched his soldiers and war elephants over the rugged, snow-covered Alps.
What is the Second Punic War?
This happened on the fifteenth day of March and is called this.
What is the assassination of Julius Ceasar and the Ides of March?
Name the two Greek philosophies that were practiced as religions in Rome.
What are Epicureanism and Stoicism?