Geography
Piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
The poor citizens of Rome
What are the plebeians
Major powers during the Punic Wars
What were Rome and Carthage
Was the most famous stadium in Rome
What was the Colosseum
An illness that helped cause the fall of Rome
What was the plague
River that flowed through Rome
The People's Assembly and the ? made all the laws
What is the Senate?
The Romans fought them in the Punic Wars
What was Carthage
He was the most famous gladiator
Who was Spartacus
When Rome wanted ALL of the territory for itself.
What is overexpansion
One of the natural defenses of Rome
What was the Alps?
The first emperor of Rome
Who was Augustus?
Hannibal Barca took his elephants and men over this mountain range
What was the Alps
Julius Caesar introduced the idea of this
What was the 12 month calendar
The Germanic tribes and this group was another cause of the fall of Rome
What are the barbarians
Rome was established between these two civilizations?
What are the Greeks and Etruscans
Form of government where people elect their leaders
What is a republic
He was the Carthaginian leader during the 2nd Punic War
Who was Hannibal Barca
Cart pulled by horses in the games
What was a chariot
He was the person who collected any amount of tax money he wanted
Who is the tax farmer
The third reasons why the river was important was
What was the military?
Class of citizens that held all the power
Who are the patricians
Won the fight to the death over control of Rome
Who was Romulus
Place of worship of the Roman gods
What is the Pantheon
Had a list of 282 laws that you must follow or you loose a body part/privilege/ or worse
Who was Hammurabi