Geo Geo Geo
Another name for the Italian Peninsula.
Apennine Peninsula
Rome's first type of government.
Monarchy
Itali
Most famous of the Roman temples.
Pantheon
Could be appointed with the advice of the Senate to rule Rome for six months.
Dictator
The chief city of Italy.
A group representing the city's patrician families/clans that was composed of all adult males of the upper class.
Assembly
Colonized the Mediterranean world during the 700s B.C. and settled in southern Italy (renaming it after their home country).
Greeks
The written law of Rome.
Twelve Tables
The founding of Rome.
753 B.C.
The name of Italy's climate.
Mediterranean climate
Represented 193 military units of 100 men each in the government.
Assembly of Centuries
The tribe that founded Rome on the Tiber River.
Latins
The place in Rome that became the city's civic and legal center.
The Forum
Was elected by the plebeian assembly to represent the plebs; could block any action by the Senate, patrician assembly, or consuls.
Tribune
A North African colony that became Rome's greatest rival.
Carthage
A representative form of civil government in which political power is vested in the people.
Republic
Wild, Celtic barbarians from Western Europe who were the last to colonize Italy.
Gauls
The Roman terms for the upper and lower classes (say which is which!).
Patricians and plebeians.
The establishment of the Roman Republic.
509 B.C.
THROWBACK
The peninsula on which Greece resides.
Balkan Peninsula
The two equal chief executives of Rome's government.
Consuls
A seafaring people from Asia Minor who settled in Italy c. 800 B.C.
Etruscans
The three Roman ideals.
Pietas (piety), gravitas (gravity), dignitas (dignity)
Rome's two greatest contributions to Western Civilization.
Republican government and reverence for the rule of law.