RISE OF ROME
This type of government was established after the Romans overthrew their kings in 509 B.C.
What is a republic?
This Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with war elephants to fight Rome.
Who was Hannibal?
This river did Caesar cross in 49 B.C., defying the Senate and beginning a civil war?
What is the Rubicon?
This massive Roman amphitheater hosted gladiatorial contests and other public spectacles.
What is the Colosseum?
DAILY DOUBLE: This emperor issued the census decree mentioned in Luke chapter 2.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
These wealthy landowners held most of the political power in early Rome.
Who were the patricians?
These three wars were fought between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean.
What were the Punic Wars?
This Roman general was Caesar's rival during the civil war.
Who was Pompey?
These were Rome's first formal written laws, established during the Republic.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This emperor was deposed in 476 A.D., marking the traditional fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Who was Romulus Augustulus?
This social class included small farmers, merchants and craftspeople who struggled for greater political rights.
Who were the plebeians?
This island was the central point of conflict that sparked the First Punic War.
What is Sicily?
This wealthy Roman joined Caesar and Pompey in the First Triumvirate.
Who was Crassus?
This language was predominantly spoken in the western Roman Empire and became the foundation of the Romance languages.
What is Latin?
This emperor established Constantinople as a new imperial capital on the Bosporus.
Who is Constantine?
This group from the region north of Rome controlled the city before the establishment of the Republic.
Who were the Etruscans?
After this war ended in 146 B.C., Rome destroyed Carthage and expanded its control over the Mediterranean.
What was the Third Punic War?
___________ assassanated Ceasar.
A group of senators.
This period of relative peace and stability began under Augustus and lasted roughly two centuries.
What is the Pax Romana?
What is splitting it?
Like the Roman Republic, the Galactic Republic in Star Wars eventually experiences a shift from a representative government toward rule by a single powerful leader. What is one similarity between how these governments changed?
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Were the Punic Wars fought during the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire?
What was the Roman Republic?
This is the date the Julius Ceasar was assassanated.
When is March 15, 44 B.C?
Explain how Roman law influenced later Western legal systems.
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Identify three major factors that contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire and explain how at least one weakened Rome's ability to survive.
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