Geography of Rome
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Rome is the capital of this modern-day country.
What is Italy?
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These were the legendary brothers that supposedly played a large part of Rome's founding.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
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This is the name given to the wealthy land-owning elite in Roman society.
Who are the Patricians?
This is the code of law written for the Roman Republic. It provided all Roman citizens protection under the law.
What are the Twelve (12) Tables?
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Roman class that held the most power and was most involved in government.
Who are the Patricians?
The mountain range located to the north of Rome.
What are the Alps?
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Tarquin the Elder & Tarquin the Proud are this nationality.
Who are the Etruscans? (or Etruria)
Roman commoners, usually farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders.
Who are the Plebeians?
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This is the name of the set of wars between Rome and Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
These are the government roles that could be held by Patricians in the early Roman Republic. (4)
What are the Consuls, Magistrates, Senators, and Assembly?
The sea to the east of Rome.
What is the Adriatic Sea?
Ancient Romans swore they would never be ruled by a ______ again.
What is a king/monarch/autocrat/tyrant?
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These groups are considered the non-citizens of Rome.
Who are women, freedmen, and slaves?
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Massive amounts of slaves entering Rome was entirely good for the Republic's economy. True or false?
False, the middle class lost housing, jobs, and living space because of the mass influx of slaves.
This is one weakness of the Roman Republic.
What is corruption, power vacuums/struggles, civil wars, unequal wealth, etc.
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Carthage, located in northern Africa, was a settlement of this civilization.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Two civilizations that heavily influenced Regal Rome the most.
Who are the Etruscans/Greeks/Latins/Sabines?
This is the most important characteristic that defined a Patrician. You can not gain or earn this.
What is having noble blood (being born into a noble family)?
This is the form of government that the Roman Republic had.
What is a Representative Democracy?
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The Patrician-led Legislative branch of the Roman government, and two (2) of its responsibilities.
What is the Roman Senate?
Any two: managed foreign policy, proposed and recommended laws, approved treaties, appointed provincial governors, elected consuls, and chose temporary dictators.
Rome acquired these three Mediterranean islands after the first Punic War.
What are Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica?
This is the consequence of Tarquin the Proud's actions, including killing dissenting members of the senate, forced Plebeians to complete hard labor on public works, and causing great frustration for the Romans.
What is the end of the Regal Roman period?
This is what happened to Rome after the Punic wars and other foreign campaigns of expansion.
What is the disappearance of a middle class and a widening gap between rich and poor? Economic problems.
This leader effectively ended the Roman Republic by taking power for himself.
Who is Julius Caesar?
These are two ways that the executive branch in Rome differs from the executive branch of American democracy.
In Rome, there were two consuls. In America, one president.
In Rome, consults served 1 year terms. In America, presidents serve 4 year terms.
Roman consuls acted as judges, and elected dictators and senators to power. In America presidents do not do those things.