Italian Peninsula
Society
Government
War
Miscellaneous
100
People who decided how early Roman kings should act.
Who are the kings and the senate?
100
Wealthy Romans' country homes.
What are villas?
100
People who could participate in the government of the Roman Republic.
Who are all free adult males?
100
Basic unit of the Roman army, approximately 5,000 soldiers.
What is a legion?
100
Small regions of an empire.
What are provinces?
200
Rome was built along this body of water.
What is the Tiber River?
200
To raise and bear children.
What is the main role of women?
200
Title of the top officials of the Roman Republic.
What are consuls?
200
A conflict between groups within the same country.
What is a civil war?
200
Official belief system, supported by the government.
What is an established religion.
300
Armies could easily traverse the Peninsula because of this geographic feature.
What is a flat (not rugged) landscape?
300
The head of a Roman household, the oldest adult male.
What is a paterfamilia?
300
To cancel or forbid.
What is a veto?
300
Marius did this to encourage soldiers to be loyal to the army.
What is giving land to retired soldiers?
300
Title of the first Roman Emperor.
Who is Augustus?
400
Allowed for easy boat travel across the peninsula.
What are many rivers?
400
40% of the roman population had this social status.
What are slaves?
400
The Roman Republic limited official's time in office to prevent this.
What is a king or powerful ruler?
400
After winning civil wars, these two commanders made themselves dictators.
Who are Caesar and Sulla?
400
Caesar angered the senate because he declared himself to be this.
What is "dictator for life"?
500
Created fertile soil, good for agriculture on the peninsula.
What are volcanoes, volcanic ash.
500
The population of the this group grew because of empire expansion.
What is the urban poor?
500
Two commonalities between the U.S. government and Roman Republic.
What are separation of powers, veto, senate... etc...
500
Three luxuries enjoyed by wealthy Romans.
What are running water, country villas, and slaves.
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