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What were the names of the twin brothers that found Rome?
Romulus and Remus.
What year was Rome founded?
753 B.C.E.
What language did early Romans speak?
Latin.
Name 2/4 enemies Rome had.
Carthage and Picts
What was the organization that ruled the Republic?
the Senate
What two Roman groups were most noticeable in the social organization?
Patricians and Plebeians.
In what year did the council of the plebs receive the right to pass laws for all Romans?
287 B.C.E.
When did The First Punic War begin?
264 B.C.E.
In 216 B.C.E., who killed at 40,000 Romans at Cannae in the 2nd Punic War?
Hannibal Barca
The territory of Carthage became a Roman province in 146 B.C.E. What was the territory's new name?
Africa.
Name the general who recruited the armies in a new way in the second century B.C.E.
Marius.
Who was known as the richest man in Rome and had successfully put down a major slave rebellion?
Crassus.
Who was known as a military hero?
Julius Caesar
Who was third to join Crassus and Pompey to form a coalition that historians call the First Triumvirate?
Julius Caesar.
When was Julius Cesar made dictator for life?
44 B.C.E.
What three basic classes were Roman citizens divided into?
The Senatorial, Equestrian, and the lower classes.
What is the Latin word for emperor?
Imperator.
What happened to Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.?
He was assassinated by a group of leading senators.
How did Cleopatra and Antony die?
They committed suicide after fleeing to Egypt.
Who was the first Roman emperor?
Octavian or Julius Caesar
At the age when boys were going into secondary schools, what were girls doing?
Getting married.
What is the name of Rome's first code of laws?
The Twelve Tables.
What was the name of the person whom Julius Caesar and Antony fell deeply in love with?
Cleopatra VII.
What led to the fall of Rome?
Military collapse
Constantine