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Geography & Founding
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100
What were the names of the twin brothers that found Rome?
Romulus and Remus.
100
What year was Rome founded?
753 B.C.E.
100
What language did early Romans speak?
Latin.
100
Name 2/4 enemies Rome had.
Etruscans, Sabines, Volscians, and Aequi.
200
What was the name of the upper class in roman society?
Patricians
200
In what year did the council of the plebs receive the right to pass laws for all Romans?
287 B.C.E.
200
When did The First Punic War begin?
264 B.C.E.
200
In 216 B.C.E., how many men were killed at Cannae?
40,000.
300
Name the general who recruited the armies in a new way in the second century B.C.E.
Marius.
300
Who was known as the richest man in Rome and had successfully put down a major slave rebellion?
Crassus.
300
Who was known as a military hero?
Pompey.
300
Who was third to join Crassus and Pompey to form a coalition that historians call the First Triumvirate?
Julius Caesar.
400
What three basic classes were Roman citizens divided into?
The Senatorial, Equestrian, and the lower classes.
400
What is the Latin word for emperor?
Imperator.
400
What happened to Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.E.?
He was assassinated by a group of leading senators.
400
How did Cleopatra and Antony die?
They committed suicide after fleeing to Egypt.
500
At the age when boys were going into secondary schools, what were girls doing?
Getting married.
500
What is the name of Rome's first code of laws?
The Twelve Tables.
500
What was the name of the person whom Julius Caesar and Antony fell deeply in love with?
Cleopatra VII.
500
What fraction did Rome's population decline during the fall of the Roman empire?
1/3