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Conquest of the Italian Peninsula
Punic Wars
Final Years of the Republic
Rome Becomes an Empire
Map Study
100
He was driven out of power in 509 B.C.E. (page 324)
Who is the last Etruscan king?
100
This was a powerful city in North Africa. (page 328)
What is Carthage?
100
This collapsed at the end of Rome's third period of expansion. (page 330)
What is the republic?
100
His murder plunged Rome into a series of civil wars that lasted more than 10 years. (page 332)
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
This is an island nation north of Gaul. (map on page 333)
What is Britain?
200
This is another name for an agreement that Roman leaders signed with their Latin neighbors to the south in 493 B.C.E. (page 326)
What is a treaty?
200
The Romans took over this island after a decisive victory at sea over the Carthaginian navy in 241 B.C.E. (page 328)
What is Sicily?
200
They rebelled against Rome in 91 B.C.E. (page 330)
What are Rome's allies?
200
He was Caesars grandnephew and the first absolute dictator of Rome. (page 332)
Who is Octavian?
200
The Roman Empire surrounded this body of water. (map on page 333)
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
300
In 390 B.C.E., these warlike people from the north crushed a Roman army and burned most of the city down. (page 326)
Who are the Gauls?
300
This brilliant Carthaginian general surprised the Romans by marching his army from Spain across the Alps and into Italy. (page 328)
Who is Hannibal?
300
This slave led a famous revolt against Rome in 73 B.C.E. page 330)
Who is Spartacus?
300
In 31 B.C.E., Octavian defeated this married couple in a sea battle. (page 332)
Who are Marc Antony and Cleopatra?
300
This mountain range is south of Gaul and north of the Italian peninsula. (map on page 333)
What is the Alps?
400
This social class made up most of the Roman army. (page 327)
Who are the plebeians?
400
Carthage was forced to give this country to Rome after the Second Punic War. (page 329)
What is Spain?
400
This is the number of Romans killed in a civil war in the 80s B.C.E. (page 330)
What is 200,000?
400
As supreme ruler of Rome, Augustus encouraged this. (page 332)
What is education, art, and literature?
400
The number of years that it took for the Creation of the Roman Empire. (map on page 333)
What is 160 years?
500
Roman allies were not happy about having to do this. (page 327)
What is pay taxes and supply soldiers?
500
Hannibal's army destroyed thousands of these, and many were replaced by large estates owned by wealthy landowners or patricians. (page 329)
What are small farms?
500
This ambitious Roman general expanded Roman rule in such eastern lands as Syria and the island of Cyprus. (page 331)
Who is Pompey?
500
This is the name for a period of over 200 years of peace in the Mediterranean world under Roman rule. (page 333)
What is Pax Romana?
500
The approximate distance in miles between Carthage and Rome. (map on page 333)
What is 400 miles?