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72 Cards in this Set
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Initial roman attack and defeat of roman cavalry in Punic war |
Battle of Cannae |
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_______ inhabited Italian peninsula (about 750-500 BC) and predated romans |
Etruscans |
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Brothers who prophesied they would become leaders of a great empire |
Romulus and Remus |
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Dragged from a river by wolves and raised by them |
Romulus and Remus |
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Imperium |
A right to rule |
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Patricians |
Upper class |
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Plebeians |
Commoner class |
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Tribunes |
Officials who protected plebeians from patricians; judges |
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Consuls |
Elected magistrates |
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______ put _____ on boats to Spain and marched them through the alps to attack the romans |
Hannibal; elephants |
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Scipio "Africanus" defeated |
Hannibal |
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_______ burned all the _______ between Carthaginian land and Rome, forcing them to retreat |
Scipio; cropland |
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How does Rome pay Carthage back for forcing them to retreat? |
Burning the entire city to the ground |
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Land redistribution scheme for poor Reelection bid / limiting emperors to 1-year terms Him and 300 allies assassinated |
Tiberius Grachus |
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Moderate land scheme Made reelection legal Expanded voter base Granted citizenship to roman allies Assassinated 3,000 allies in power grab |
Gaius Grachus |
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Power ran through Rome through the |
Patricians |
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Caesar was _______ class, not patrician, but the power began running through the ______ |
Upper middle class; military class |
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First Triumvirate Crassus died in ________ campaigns |
Persian |
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was given imperium over Mediterranean Swept it clear of pirates |
Pompey |
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Preconsulships |
Extension of a consul appointment |
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Assassinated in Egypt by pre-Caesar faction |
Pompey |
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Became de facto head of Rome; suspicion is he bribed them |
Pompey |
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Kidnapped by pirates because they assumed he was wealthy; promised to show them mercy before killing them one day |
Caesar |
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Beheaded the pirates that kidnapped him before crucifying them |
Caesar |
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Fought in Gaul, France and England/Britain |
Caesar |
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Triggered a civil war in Rome |
Caesar |
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Had Pompey killed in Egypt |
Caesar |
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Bore a child with cleopatra Assassinated in 44 BC in Rome by people of his inner circle after taking cleopatra and his son back to Rome |
Caesar |
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Is told by Pompey to come to Rome without his armies, but he shows up with his army anyway |
Caesar |
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Site of his assassination is now a cat sanctuary |
Caesar |
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Censors |
Men of high integrity; demographic and tax work |
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Census every ____ years |
10 |
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Popularies |
Political innovators like Julius Caesar |
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Optimates |
Political traditionalists |
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_______ Wars (264-146 BC) |
Punic |
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_______ and Rome got involved with the ______ civil war, because neither wanted the other to have ___________. |
Carthage; Sicilian; a naval base on Sicily |
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Romans developed the ______, which helped their navy get from their boats to the Carthaginian boats by creating a bridge |
Corvus |
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Carthaginian leader during Punic wars |
Hannibal |
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Mysteriously died of poisoning Member of second triumvirate |
M. Aurelius Lepidus |
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Married cleopatra Member of second triumvirate |
Mark Anthony |
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Rome convinced of an alliance between them |
Mark Anthony |
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Nephew of Julius Caesar |
Mark Anthony |
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Three members of the second triumvirate |
M Aurelius Lepidus Mark Anthony Gauius Octavius |
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Octavian = ??? |
Augustus, the title that he took |
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Roman republic officially dead; Roman Empire born under |
Octavian/Augustus |
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Emperor at the time of Christ's birth |
Augustus |
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Stormed the shores of Egypt and deemed it one with the Roman Empire |
Augustus |
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In the Roman Empire, the ______ was like the president while the _______ was like the Vice President or second-in-command |
Emperor; Caesar |
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First Roman emperor to become Christian |
Constantine |
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Emperor who legalized Christian faith |
Constantine |
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Constantine's successor |
Theodosius |
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Made Christianity official religion of Roman Empire |
Theodosius |
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Aqueducts and _____ houses |
Bath |
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_______ colosseums |
Totally round, walled in |
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_______ wall ran the length of the English Scottish border |
Hadrian's |
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______ roads |
Concrete |
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Egypt officially becomes part of Rome after what battle? |
Battle of aetium |
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During the time of the battle of aetium (when Egypt was officially part of Rome), what were the three biggest empires of the world? |
Persia, Rome, and the han dynasty |
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The Romans accused christians of being ________ because _________ represented flesh and ______ |
Cannibals; they ate bread and wine; blood |
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Romans accused Christians of being ______ because they called each other ________ |
Incest; brother and sister |
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Christians were the Romans' ________ |
Scapegoat, to be blamed when anything negative happened |
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One of the reasons romans didn't like Christianity was because it was a _____ religion |
New |
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Roman abortion and infanticide Gladiatorial games Social and economic rank |
Aspects of Roman life that Christians opposed |
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Christians were the first to found _______ |
Universal hospitals Roman hospitals were reserved for military and the wealthy |
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Christians in Rome were some of the first to begin practicing _____ |
Adoption, often taking in unwanted children |
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Roman doctor One of first to categorize bodily functions |
Galen |
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Basic political unit of Greek world |
Polis |
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Main external rival of the Greeks Sparked battles of marathon, salamis, and Thermopylae |
Persia |
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300 year period of Greek expansion in Middle East |
Hellenistic world or period |
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Main rival of Caesar who recalled him from his campaigns in Gaul |
Pompey |
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Roman general who won second Punic war for Rome against Carthage |
Scipio Africanus |
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War fought between the Delian league of Athens and the ______ league of Sparta |
Peloponnesian |
