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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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What did the Romans cover the ground with in Carthage?
Salt
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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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What was the name of the general for the Punics who brought war elephants to cross the Alps?
Hannibal
300
Who did Caesar name as his heir in his will?
Octavian
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What Roman general led the final attack on Carthage in the Third Punic War?
General Scipio
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What was built in Rome to be the center of Roman politics?
Forum
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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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In the First Punic War, Rome won control of Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia. These were three what?
Islands
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Who was in the 2nd Triumvirate?
Marc Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus
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What is Octavian's name after he becomes emperor?
Caesar Augustus
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What happened to Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.?
He was stabbed in the Senate.
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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?
Learning to manage the household.
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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
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What river was Rome built on?
Tiber River
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What Etruscan King was overthrown by the Romans?
King Tarquin