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Geography
Early Rome
Roman Republic
Roman Expansion and Punic Wars
Vocabulary
100
The plain Rome is located on.
What is the Latium Plain?
100
According to legend, the city of Rome was built here by Romulus.
What is Palatine Hill?
100
These people overthrew the Etruscan kings and set up the Roman Republic.
Who are the patricians.
100
Rome first expanded into this area before 264 BCE.
What is the Italian peninsula.
100
a long underground trench connected to the Earth above by long shafts (ancient sewer system)
What is a cuniculus?
200
The three main geographic features that form the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.
What are the Rhine River, the Danube River, and the Carpathian Mountains?
200
These people first ruled early Rome.
Who are the Etruscan kings?
200
Many plebeians served as this during the early years of the Roman Republic.
What are soldiers.
200
Rome's main enemy during their second period of expansion.
Who are Carthage in North Africa?
200
one of the common people and soldiers in the Roman Republic who originally had very little say in the government.
Who is the plebeians?
300
The river that connects the city of Rome to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Tiber River?
300
These people had settlements in southern Italy and on Sicily.
Who are the Greeks?
300
To refuse to approve a law.
To veto.
300
Taking prisoners as slaves during expansion led to this problem in the Roman Empire.
What is unemployment since landowners put slaves to work instead of paying free workers?
300
A government official of the Roman Republic who was elected by the Plebeians to protect their rights and speak to the Senate on their behalf.
Who is the tribune?
400
The three min bodies of water that the Roman Empire touched.
What are the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.
400
These brothers are at the center of the myth of the founding of Rome.
Who are Remus and Romulus.
400
In the Roman Republic, every adult male citizen was called this.
A patrician.
400
This issue led to war between Carthage and Rome.
What is fighting over trade in the Mediterranean (think Sicily!)?
400
One of the two chief leaders in the Roman Republic, originally both were Patricians.
Who are the consuls?
500
The island that was key for trade in the Mediterranean and fought over at the start of the Punic Wars.
What is Sicily.
500
The Etruscans adopted this civilization's alphabet and changed it.
Who are the Greeks.
500
The laws of the Roman Republic were written on this so patricians could not change the laws whenever they wished.
What is the Twelve Tables.
500
Augustus began a period of peace (Pax Romana) in Rome that lasted almost 200 years during this period of expansion.
What is the fourth period of expansion, Rome is a an Empire?
500
A city in North Africa that was a powerful empire and enemy of Rome.
Who is Carthage?