Geography
The River Ancient Rome was founded on
What is the Tiber River?
The workers, common people, traders, soldiers and craftsmen who make up the lower class.
Who are the Plebeians?
When the Etruscans conquered Rome shortly before 600BC, they established this type of government
What is monarchy?
The First Punic War from 264-241 BC was between
Who were Rome and Carthage?
This leader declared himself the Roman dictator and took away power from the Senate. He lived from 100- 44 BC
Who was Julius Caesar?
The founder of Rome in 753 BC
Who is Romulus?
A member of the wealthy ruling class in Ancient Rome
What is a Patrician?
When the Latin people finally drove out the Etruscan King in 509 BC, they formed this type of government.
What is a republic?
A republic is a government ruled by representatives of the people
The First Punic War was fought because both sides wanted control of this central Island in the Mediterranean
What is Sicily?
This calendar is used in most countries today and replaced the Julian calendar
What is the Gregorian Calendar
The Two Seas surrounding the Italian Peninsula
What are the Adriatic Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea?
The inequalities between the Plebeians and Patricians
The could not intermarry, Plebeians could not vote
What are the consuls, senate, and assemblies
The famous Carthaginian General who was famous for the Second Punic War strategy of circling his enemies with an arc
Who was Hannibal?
Caesar was killed in 44 BC in March. This day is called
What is Ides of March
The fifteenth Day of March when Julius Caesar was assassinated
The countries surrounding Italy
What are France, Switzerland, Austria, and Turkey?
The method used by the Plebeians to gain social and political rights
The soldiers refused to fight in Rome's army without earning representation in government
The most powerful group of assemblies in the early government made up of patricians
What was the Assembly of Centuries?
The Turning point of the second Punic War occurred
Rome sent an army to attack Carthage itself and Hannibal immediately rushed back to protect his city
The seven hills of Rome
What are the Quirinal Hill, Viminal Hill, Capitoline Hill, Esquiline Hill, Palatine Hill, Caelian Hill and Aventine Hill?
The name of the entity of representation the Plebeians finally earned
What is the Tribal Assembly?
Originally in Rome, the laws were not written down. In this year ___________ the laws were written on this __________________ and displayed in the ___________________
In 450 BC, the laws were written on bronze tablets called the Law of the Twelve Tablets and displayed in the Roman Forum
The Romans sold the survivors into slavery
They plowed salt into Carthage soil to keep crops from growing