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44 Cards in this Set
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Antiginous took over where?
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Greece & Macedonia
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Seleceos took over where?
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Bactria & Anatolia
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Ptolemy took over where?
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Egypt
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When Alexanders empire dissappears, who takes over?
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Rome
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Rome is know for what...3 things
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Military, Administrative Skills, & adapting Greek culture for its own uses
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Italian Peninsula divides what into halves?
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Mediterreanean Sea
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Italian Peninsula has what kind of natural harbers?
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few good ones
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Rome owes it's beginning to...3 things
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Tiber River, Ford, 7 Hills
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Po R was known for what?
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half Italy fertile land by it
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Robicon R was known for what?
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His faithful decision
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The early people of rome where who? 3
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Latins, Etruscans, & Greeks
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Who was in the Aeneas? 2
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Romolus & Remus
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Founding Fathers looked at Rome why? 3 things
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Royal, Republican, & Imperial
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Republican means...?
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Gov't officials chosen by the people
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Tarquin the Proud is remembered why?
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Etruscan King thrown out in 509 BC & his removal establishes an antiking tradition
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why problems between the Patricians and the Plebeians?
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Pat... 10-30% population, 70% of community's wealth, 100% political voice.
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How did the Plebeians attack the Patricians?
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Taking Strikes
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Good Results of War... 2
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New land & more pride
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Bad results of war... 3
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Cause social & economic problems, & growing gap between rich & poor, & overcrowded cities
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Latifundia means...?
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Large farms
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Tiberius known for...
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Land reform
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Gaius known for...
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Cheap grain
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Generals that attempted to save the republic... 2
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Marius & Solla
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What happened at the battle of Actium?
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Octavians naval forces win against Marc Antony
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All of the following are Rome achievements...3 things
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Establishes long lasting system of gov't, establishes a civil service system, & expands Roman road network
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All of the following are reasons why the Civil Service System started...3 reasons
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efficient gov't, challenge power of senate, & opportunites to plebians
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what is the term for 200 years of peace, prosperity, & order?
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Pax Romana
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Romans influenced by Greeks in what 2 catagories?
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Art & Literature
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Virgils Aeneid was designed to do what?
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Arrouse patriotism
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Livy chose to write about what?
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Romes past heros
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Roman Architecture was characterized by what?
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grandeur
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Roman aquaducts did what?
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carried water to city
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What was a new building material used by Romans?
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concrete
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What was the most important temple of Roman Times?
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Pantheon
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ROmes most lasting legacy was its what?
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law
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3 principals with Roman Law was what?
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innocent until proven guilty, right to face an accouser, & entitled to a jury of your peers
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What was the major weakness of Romans imperial government?
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succession
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What are the military causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 2
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Germanic invasions & mercenaries
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What are the social causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 2
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Values & Luxery
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What are the political causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 3
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corruption, involvemnt, & economic reasons
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What year did it fall in?
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476 AD
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Diocletion did what?
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Double size of army, Divide empire
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Constantine did what?
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Capital, Christianity
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Who arrived in territory in order to escape huns?
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Germanic invaders
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