Power Players
Can't We Just Get Along?
Where Are You?
Taking the Republic
This and That
100
To reject a bill or a law
What is a veto
100
Rome's enemy during the Punic Wars.
Who is Carthage?
100
The mountain range that acts as a natural barrier between the Italian Peninsula and the rest of Europe.
What are the Alps
100
Generals Marius and Sulla used this to seize power.
What is the army
100
The common people of Rome, they held the least amount of wealth and power.
Who are the plebeians
200
They elected government officials and declared war or peace
What is the assembly
200
During this event, the Carthaginians invaded Saguntum and crossed the Alps. Once Hannibal left, the Romans were able to retake the Italian Peninsula.
What is the Second Punic War
200
The river on which the city of Rome was built.
What is the Tiber River
200
The grandnephew of Julius Caesar, he was the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus Caesar
200
The leaders of Rome, they held the most wealth and power.
Who are the Patricians
300
These two, chosen every year, ran the army and the government
What are the consuls
300
Once the Punic Wars were over, Rome had gained control of this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea
300
The island directly south of the Italian Peninsula.
What is Sicily
300
The descendants of Augustus Caesar, they were considered ineffective and weak....and probably a little crazy!
Who are the Julio-Claudians
300
They gave the early inhabitants of the Italian Peninsula the toga and turned Rome into a city.
Who are the Etruscans
400
These 300 patricians were the advisers to government officials.
What is the Senate
400
This event occurred because Plebeians demanded political and social equality.
What is the Struggle of the Orders
400
The city first founded by the Latins
What is Rome
400
These leaders expanded Rome, had many construction projects and strengthened laws.
Who are the Five Good Emperors
400
They gave Rome its language.
Who are the Latins
500
A government in which three people share power
What is a Triumvirate
500
In their attempt to end Latifundia, they paid for their beliefs with their lives.
Who are Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
500
The mountain range that goes through the Italian Peninsula like a spine.
What are the Apennines
500
The one hundred year period of peace and prosperity in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana
500
Large estates owned by Patricians and worked by slaves.
What is a Latifundia
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