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Vocabulary 2
Geography
Rome is an excellent city
Miscellaneous
100
A volcano that will never erupt again
What is extinct volcano
100
Land that can be used to grow crops
What is arable
100
Sea to the south of Italy
What is Mediterranean
100
Had close supplies of these two materials for building
What is wood and stone
100
Valley that lies between the Alps and the Apennines
What is Po
200
To stop passage of a law.
What is veto
200
A form of government in which the citizens elect representatives to make all the government decisions.
What is Republic
200
Sea to the east of Italy
What is Adriatic
200
The number of hills on which Rome was built
What is seven
200
Island to the west of the Italian "toe"
What is Sicily
300
A ruler with absolute authority
What is dictator
300
A desecendant of Rome's earliest settlers
What is Patrician
300
Mountain Range that separates Italy from the rest of Europe.
What is Alps
300
Rome was close to these two sources
What is fish and salt
300
Where the Latins came from
What is Central Europe
400
A council of representatives
What is Senate
400
A public square in Rome that was the center of business, government, and religion.
What is forum
400
Sea to the west of Italy
What is Tyrrhenian
400
It inland location protected Roman from these people
What is pirates
400
River that is south of Rome
What is Tiber
500
A plebeian official who could attend meetings of the Assembly in Ancient Rome
What is tribune
500
A citizen whose family came to ancient Rome after the patricians
What is plebeian
500
Mountains that run the length of the Italian peninsula
What is Apennines
500
Rome's location in the center of Italy made it ideal for doing these two things with the rest of Italy.
What is traded and communication
500
Two reasons why the Italian peninsula had a large amount of arable land
What is 1) rivers carry mineral rich silt and 2) volcanic ash