Rise of the civilization
This geographic features of Italy led to the development of its civilization.
What is the Tiber River?
These people believe that the goal of life is to give glory and praise to God.
Who are Christians?
The 2 main social classes in Rome.
What were the plebeians and the patricians?
The triumvirate included Crassus, Pompey, and this man.
Who was Julius Caesar?
After Carthage fought one of Rome's allies, Rome declared war on Carthage. After three years of battles, Rome captured and destroyed Carthage.
What was the Third Punic War?
The reasons the Tiber River was so important to the development of the Roman civilization
What are fertile farm land, water for farming and livestock, fishing, transportation, trade routes?
This man traveled throughout Galilee teaching and healing sicknesses among the people.
Who was Jesus?
Plebeians were eventually given this power.
What is veto power?
This was a period of peace that began under Octavian.
What was the Pax Romana?
The Romans developed a ship that dropped a plank with a spiked tip. Rome defeated the Carthaginian navy and gained control of Sicily.
What was the First Punic War?
This contributed to Latins becoming the first settlers in the Italian peninsula.
What were fertile soil and a climate that supported agriculture?
These people believed that true happiness in this life can be found if people are free from fear.
Who were the Epicureans?
These were eventually written down and place in a public place so that plebeians could be familiar with them.
What were the Laws of the Twelve Tables?
This ruler divided the empire in half, keeping the eastern part under his control and appointing a ruler for the western half.
Hannibal led his soldiers and war elephants through the Alps to make a surprise attack on Rome. Hannibal returned to Carthage after hearing it was under attack, but the Roam commander, Scipio, was victorious.
What was the Second Punic War?
The Etruscans improved the Roman way of life in these ways.
What were developing a writing system based on the Greek alphabet, paved roads, built arches, drained marshes, and built sewage systems?
These people believed that doing one's duty leads to happiness and that fate governs all things.
Who were the Stoics?
Plebeians were eventually allowed to do these things.
What were marry patricians, be elected as consuls, and have their own assembly and serve as tribunes?
This man divided the empire, and the western part fell to barbarians.
Who was Theodosius I?
This most powerful governing branch controlled the finances, passed laws, and oversaw foreign affairs.
What was the Senate?
Three differences between Rome and Carthage in battle strategy and war
Carthage: more skillful in military science, hired foreign mercenaries, had difficulty repairing their armies
Peter preached at this event and almost 3000 people repented of their sins and were baptized.
What was Pentecost?
Explain the importance of the Law of the Twelve Tables and its location.
Everyone could know what the laws were, they were recorded and displayed publicly, prevented the plebeians from being at a disadvantage in court, Roman law was built on the Law of the Twelve Tables.
What are:
dividing the empire, assigning assistant rulers, persecution of Christians, division in the Roman Catholic church, soldiers giving their allegiance to their officers rather than to the empire
Several of this type of group existed in the early republic with this group being the most powerful by voting on new laws, making declarations of war, and electing members of another governing branch.
What was the Assembly of Centuries?