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A small mountain chain that runs through much of Europe and specifically borders the Italian Peninsula. It protected Rome by acting as a natural barrier.
What are the Alps?
A poorer class of people in Rome, they made up most of the population and could not hold official office.
What was the Plebeian class?
They were raised by a She-Wolf, in myth, and went on to found the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
He was the Roman version of Zeus, King of the Gods.
Who was Zeus?
This happens when money loses its value and people can't buy as much with it.
What is inflation?
This technique allowed the Romans to make bigger buildings, longer roads, and better aqueducts
What are arches?
a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia, it acted as a natural barrier to help in protecting Rome, and the Roman empire surrounded it.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Workers who were often foreigners captured as prisoners of war, those who owed a debt they couldn't pay off any other way, or the children of slaves
Who were slaves in ancient Rome?
He was the member of Triumvirate who was most trusted by the Plebeians, but was warned to "Beware the Ides of March" before being assassinated by members of the Patrician class in the Senate.
Who was Julius Caesar?
She was the Roman goddess of the moon and the hunt, twin sister of Apollo, who got to keep his name from the Greek.
These were a series of wars fought between Carthage and Rome over control of the Mediterranean Sea, won by Rome.
What were the Punic Wars?
These two bronze tablets marked the beginning of a new approach to laws, where they would be posted where everyone could see them, to be treated equally before them.
What were the Twelve Tables?
a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean. It is the location of the city of Rome.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
The class in Rome that had the majority of the power, even if they did not represent the majority of the population; the wealthy and those that could hold office.
Who were the Patricians?
He was the founder of the First Triumvirate, eventually defeated by Julius Caesar for control of Rome.
Who was Pompey?
She was the goddess of marriage, the Roman Queen of the gods.
It was his election to the role of Dictator-for-life that sparked a civil war between his supporters and the (mostly) Patricians of Rome.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Many of these are still standing today, examples of Roman inventiveness and engineering, as they can still carry water from sources thousands of years later.
What are aqueducts?
Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, to the Roman Republic, to Imperial Rome, to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD
What is Rome?
The groups/tribes of "savages" that Rome fought to their north, specifically in Gaul and Britain, to expand their Republic and later Empire.
Who were the Barbarians?
He was a Carthaginian general who won some major victories against Rome in the Punic Wars, most famous for bringing elephants over the Alps to attack Rome.
Who was Hannibal?
She was the Roman goddess of wisdom and handicrafts.
Who was Minerva?
There were more slaves being used in agriculture, which led to a fear of this, as seen with the slave Spartacus.
This temple stands as a example of Roman effectiveness with concrete, given the massive size of its dome.
What is the Pantheon?
Home to various groups of "barbarian" tribes, it was conquered by the Romans and makes up most of the present-day nation of France.
What is Gaul?
They took the citizenship status of their most immediate male relatives (husband, father, etc.).
What status did women have in Roman society?
He was the less-known member of the First Triumvirate who was most trusted by the Patrician class.
Who was Crassus?
He is a god who is known by the same name in the Greek and Roman pantheons, the god of music, light and the sun, and destiny.
Who was Apollo?
"Et tu, Brute?" was all that Caesar could say as this protege of his stabbed him, according to the stories about Caesar's assassination.
Who was Brutus?
The Aeneid, a story about the Trojan war by Virgil, was likely written in this language, which forms the basis of many modern European languages, such as French, Spanish, and Italian.
What is Latin?