Geography & Location
This river provided Ancient Rome with fresh water, fertile land, and direct access to trade routes.
What is the Tiber River?
The term used to describe soil or land that is suitable for farming and growing crops.
What is arable?
The wealthy, land-owning noble class in Ancient Rome that held dominant political power.
What are Patricians?
Two elected leaders chosen to head the Roman Republic who served one-year terms.
What are Consuls?
The central city hub in Rome that served as the center for trade, commerce, banking, and public debate.
What is the Forum?
The geographical term for an attached body of land surrounded by water on three sides, such as Italy.
What is a peninsula?
This common Roman breakfast would leaving you buzzing after you were finished.
What are bread and honey?
The class of common citizens in Rome who fought for greater rights and representation in government.
What are Plebeians?
On March 15, 44 BCE, a group of senators assassinated this leader after he declared himself dictator for life.
Who is Julius Caesar?
A form of government where citizens with the right to vote select leaders to represent them and run the government.
What is a republic?
This geographic term describes a natural or man-made safe area used for docking Roman ships.
What is a harbor?
Left behind by ancient mountain eruptions, this material rich in nutrients fertilized the soil along the peninsula.
What is volcanic ash?
In 540 BCE, Roman laws were recorded on bronze tablets displayed in the forum, known as this.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Elected to protect plebeians, tribunes possessed this legal right to vote down or block unfair laws.
What is the veto?
The practice of adopting ideas, tools, architecture, and religion from neighboring civilizations, as Rome did with the Greeks.
What is cultural borrowing?
Rome culturally borrowed architectural, military, and religious ideas from these two civilizations.
Who are the Etruscans and the Greeks?
An artificial channel or bridge built across valleys to convey fresh water into Roman cities and farmland.
What is an aqueduct?
These two brothers tried to pass reforms for the plebeians but were murdered for their efforts.
Who are Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (the Gracchus brothers)?
Formerly named Octavian, this leader became Rome's very first emperor in 27 BCE.
Who is Augustus?
A political alliance formed between three powerful Roman political or military figures.
What is a Triumvirate?
Located to the north of Italy, this mountain range served as a natural land barrier above the peninsula.
What are the Alps?
This spread of a variety of foods such as eggs, meat, and fruit would remind us of a modern-day buffet.
What is a banquet?
This official post was created as a major reform allowing plebeians to veto unfair laws made by patrician officials.
What is the Tribune of the Plebs (or Tribune)?
Elected leaders originally chosen by Patricians formed this ruling advisory body of the Republic.
What is the Senate?
The historical name given to the ongoing political struggle and hostility between the patricians and the plebeians.
What is the Conflict of the Orders?