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What were the names of the twin brothers that found Rome?
Romulus and Remus.
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What year was Rome founded?
753 B.C.E.
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What language did early Romans speak?

Latin.

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Name 2/4 enemies Rome had.
Etruscans, Sabines, Volscians, and Aequi.
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What was the year when Rome had crushed the Latin states in Latium?
340 B.C.E.
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What two Roman groups were most noticeable in the social organization?
Patricians and Plebeians.
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In what year did the council of the plebs receive the right to pass laws for all Romans?
287 B.C.E.
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When did The First Punic War begin?

264 B.C.E.

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In 216 B.C.E., how many men were killed at Cannae?
40,000.
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The territory of Carthage became a Roman province in 146 B.C.E. What was the territory's new name?
Africa.
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Name the general who recruited the armies in a new way in the second century B.C.E.
Marius.
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Who was known as the richest man in Rome and had successfully put down a major slave rebellion?
Crassus.
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Who was known as a military hero?

Pompey.

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Who was third to join Crassus and Pompey to form a coalition that historians call the First Triumvirate?
Julius Caesar.
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When was Julius Cesar made dictator for life?
44 B.C.E.
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What three basic classes were Roman citizens divided into?
The Senatorial, Equestrian, and the lower classes.
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What is the Latin word for emperor?
Imperator.
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What happened to Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.?

He was assassinated by a group of leading senators.

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How did Cleopatra and Antony die?
They committed suicide after fleeing to Egypt.
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Who was the first Roman emperor?
Octavian.
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At the age when boys were going into secondary schools, what were girls doing?
Getting married.
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What is the name of Rome's first code of laws?
The Twelve Tables.
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What was the name of the person whom Julius Caesar and Antony fell deeply in love with?

Cleopatra VII.

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What fraction did Rome's population decline during the fall of the Roman empire?
1/3
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Which three new civilizations did the heirs of Rome develop?
European, Islamic, and Byzantine.