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Took care of Romulus and Remus when they were found after their birth.
Who is the she-wolf?
100
Tombs beneath the ground with paintings on the walls and often filled with treasures.
What is a catacomb?
100
Traditionally thought of as the first king of Rome.
Who is Romulus?
100
Troops that march strategically close together; a tactic borrowed from the Greeks.
What is a phalanx?
100
The Etruscan use of drains and tunnels for waterways became the foundation for these.
What are aqueducts?
200
Used to bring salt and other items from the coast.
What are gravel roads?
200
Built on hilltops and surrounded by thick walls, they had water and sewage systems
What are Etruscan cities?
200
This council of family chiefs and other elderly men advised the king.
What is the senate?
200
This group was made up of farmers, traders, and city workers.
What is the middle class?
200
The main entrance to a city always faced this because they believed that the gods lived there.
What is East?
300
The shepherd who found and cared for Romulus and Remus when they were older.
Who is Faustulus?
300
They made weapons, utensils, and jewelry.
Who are metalworkers and sculptors?
300
A name for the men from the wealthy and oldest families.
What is a patriarch or patrician?
300
These people would serve food and/or entertain at lavish banquets. Name three.
Who were slaves, musicians, dancers, and acrobats.
300
This custom of slaves fighting to the death at a funeral became a major form of entertainment for the Romans.
What were gladiatorial games?
400
The omen that the augurs saw over Palatine Hill that convinced them that Romulus should be king.
What were twelve flying vultures?
400
Twelve of these were connected by roads and often formed alliances to fight enemies.
What are city-states?
400
Coming to Rome to make his fortune, this man was named in the king's will to be the guardian of the previous kings children. After the king's death, he sent the children on a hunting trip and convinced the Romans to elect him as king. In 616 BCE he became the first Etruscan king of the Romans.
Who is Tarquinius Priscus?
400
Men and women both wore these.
What are tunics?
400
A monument built to show success in a battle.
What is a triumphal arch?
500
How we know the name of the first rulers of Rome.
What are inscriptions?
500
The Etruscan language was different from any other spoken in the ancient world. The only written records of them people come from these groups.
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
500
This king built this wall to fortify Rome and surrounded all seven hills.
What is the Servian Wall?
500
Used for worship, these were built of wood, mud-brick, and clay on stone foundations. The peaked roofs were adorned with sculptures and the entrances faced East.
What are temples?
500
A soothsayer used a plow with a bronze blade pulled by a white bull and a cow to mark boundaries for cities in a religious ceremony that resulted in these marks.
What is a grid pattern?