RISE OF ROME
GOVERNMENT
EARLY REPUBLIC
VOCABULARY
CONFLICTS/LATE REPUBLIC
100
Rome is located in what country
What is Italy
100
The first rulers of Rome.
What is Etruscan King?
100
In the early republic, the social class was divided into two class
What is the patricians and the plebeians
100
A government where the people elect their leaders.
What is a republic?
100
In Roman Republic, the patricians were
What is the wealthy landowners
200
The two mythological founders of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
200
Who set up the Roman Republic
What is patricians
200
Who retained all the power in the early republic
What is patricians
200
A set of basic laws
What is constitution?
200
In Roman Republic, the plebeians were referred to
What is the common people
300
The geographic landform of Italy.
What is a peninsula?
300
The length of a consul's term in office.
What is one year?
300
The Plebeians were unhappy when Republic government was first set up.
What is they had no say in making the laws and/or laws were not written down.
300
Two elected leaders who shared the command of the army were called
What is consul?
300
Who were the plebeians
What is the peasants, laborers, craftspeople, and shopkeepers
400
The religion of Ancient Rome is taken from this civilization.
Who are the Greeks?
400
The written set of laws that Romans had to protect citizens.
What were the Twelve Tables?
400
Because the laws were not written down, patricians were able to do what
What is change or interpret laws to benefit them (the pats)
400
A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome
What is the Senate?
400
The conflict between the patricians and the plebeians
What is the Conflict of the Orders?
500
Who led the revolt against the Etruscans
Who is Lucius Junius Brutus
500
The Plebeians did this to get more rights in 494 BCE.
What is revolt or strike (accept equivalents)?
500
How were plebeians able to serve the republic during its early years
What is as soldiers?
500
To overrule or refuse to approve proposals of government
What is veto?
500
When plebeians gained equality, what were they able to do?
What is pass laws for all Romans.