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22 Cards in this Set
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Numitor
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rightful king of Alba Longa
grandfather of Romulus and Remus brother of Amulius father of Sylvia |
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Amulius
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usurped throne of Alba Longa
great-uncle of Romulus and Remus brother of Numitor killed by Romulus and Remus |
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Sylvia
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daughter of Numitor
wife of the war-god Mars (Ares) mother of Romulus and Remus |
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Vestal Virgins
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young girls who served in Vesta's temple
could not get married for 30 years Sylvia was made one of these by Amulius |
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Alba Longa
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town near Rome founded by a descendant of Aeneas
home of Numitor, Amulius, and Sylvia home of the Curiatii brothers |
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Aeneas
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Trojan chieftain who fled from the sack of Troy to Italy and
became the forefather of the Romans |
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Tiber
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The river on whose banks Rome was built
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753 B.C.
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The year Rome was founded
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Mars
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The war-god
married Sylvia and fathered Romulus and Remus known as Ares among the Greeks |
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Faustulus
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The shepherd who took Romulus and Remus away from the wolf and raised them as his own children
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12
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The number of vultures Romulus claimed he saw, an omen that the city should be named after him
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6
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The number of vultures Remus claimed he saw, an omen that the city should be named after him
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Sabines
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a tribe near Rome, whose women the Romans stole and made their wives
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Tarpeia
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a foolish Roman girl who let the Sabine soldiers into Rome when they came to reclaim their women
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Titus Tatius
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King of the Sabines at the time the Romans stole their women
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she-wolf
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Romulus and Remus' first "nurse"
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taken into the clouds in a golden chariot by Mars
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what a citizen named Julius told the Romans had happened to Romulus when he disappeared
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Palatine Hill
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one of the seven hills of Rome
the original hill on which Romulus and Remus started building Rome |
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Quirinal Hill
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place where the Romans built a temple to Romulus after he disappeared from the earth
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Quirinus
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name the Romans gave to Romulus after he disappeared from the earth
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"So perish anyone who shall hereafter attempt to leap over my wall!"
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What Romulus said to Remus after he had struck him on the head and killed him
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how the conflict with the Sabines ended
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the Sabine women, now married to the Romans, rushed between the Romans and the Sabine men and begged them to stop fighting
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