Myth or Legend?
Romulus and His Nutty Family
The Seven Hills of Rome
Paragraph Writing 101
Geography/People of Rome
100
These are stories rooted in religion.
What are myths?
100
He was the father of the twin boys.
Who is Numitor?
100
Romulus began to build his city on this hill.
What is Palatine Hill?
100
The Greeks settled here.
What is Magna Graecia?
100
These mountains lay to the north of the Italian Peninsula.
What are the Alps.
200
These are set in recognizable places, and main characters are human.
What are legends?
200
She took care of Romulus and Remus when they were babies.
Who is a she-wolf?
200
Romulus and his men kidnapped the women from this neighboring tribe.
Who are the Sabines?
200
Phoenicians were prosperous because they traded this precious commodity.
What is purple dye?
200
This group of people settled in the southern portion of the Italian Peninsula around the same time that Rome was founded.
Who are the Greeks?
300
Myth or Legend? Zeus ate his children.
What is myth?
300
She was the mother of Romulus and Remus.
Who is Rhea Silvia?
300
The eldest living male in a family is known as this.
What is the paterfamilia?
300
This is the Latin for Greater Greece
What is Magna Graecia.
300
This group of people lived just north of the Latins who settled Rome.
Who are the Etruscans?
400
Myth or Legend? Saint Nicholas brings presents to children.
What is a legend?
400
This is the ancestral city of Romulus and Remus.
What is Alba Longa?
400
People living on the seven hills of Rome had this in common.
What is language and culture?
400
Greeks and Romans came into contact because of this.
What is trade?
400
This island looks like a football at the base of the Italian Peninsula "boot."
What is Sicily?
500
Myth or Legend? Romulus and Remus were suckled by a wolf.
What is a legend?
500
The birds flying over the hills of Romulus and Remus were seen as this.
An augury from the gods.
500
A group of individuals with a common ancestor were known as this.
What is gens?
500
The Phoenicians settled here.
What is Sardinia, western Sicily and North Africa.
500
The Italian Peninsula is surrounded by these three bodies of water.
What are the Tyrrhenian, Ionian and Adriatic Seas?