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38 Cards in this Set
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What city did Aeneas' son Ascanius found?
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Alba Longa
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What two brothers, wrongfully deprived of the throne of Alba Longa, founded Rome? In what year did this supposedly happen? Why was it called Rome?
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Romulus and Remus; 753 BC; because Romulus killed Remus and named it after himself
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What are two names for the group of one hundred older men, fathers of the first hundred families accepted into the settlement at Rome?
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senate or patres conscripti
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What tribe's women did Romulus steal because the Romans needed wives?
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Sabines
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Rather than dying, what does legend hold happened to Romulus?
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that he was snatched up into the sky
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Who were the earliest inhabitants of Italy?
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farmers
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Why was the site of Rome especially advantageous?
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Because it lay at the ford of the Tiber and they could control the north-south route of the river, as well as boat traffic up and down it.
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What people settled to the north of Rome in Etruria?
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Etruscans
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Identify: Cloaca Maxima
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the main drain
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Identify: toga
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long draped mantle
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Identify: fasces
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a ceremonial bundle of sticks with an axe protruding from it
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Identify: augury
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reading omens in the thunder and lightning, bird behavior, or the arrangement of organs of sacrificed animals
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How many kings of Rome were there? Where did the last three come from?
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seven; Etruria
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Why, and in what year, were the Tarquins expelled from Rome?
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Because Sextus raped a woman, who then killed herself, and her husband took revenge; 509 BC
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Who were the first two consuls of the Republic?
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Collantinus and Lucius Junius Brutus
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What are the the three parts of a typical Roman's name?
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personal (praenomen), family (nomen), and connections/achievements/features (cognomen)
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Who was the head of the family?
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paterfamilias
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Who were the patricians? Plebs?
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aristocratic descendants of Romulus's 1st 100 senators; small farmers, tradesmen, etc.
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When did the plebs go strike?
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494
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When was the 12 Tables written?
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450
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When was intermarriage acceptable?
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445
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When was the law passed that at least one consul had to be a pleb?
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367
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When did it become illegal to force someone into slavery because of their inability to pay debts?
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326
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When was "lex hortansia", all pleb decisons had force of law?
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287
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Define imperium.
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The authority for magistrates to oversee domestic and judicial affairs and to lead armies to war.
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What were the responsibilities of praetors? Quaestors?
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operating the lawcourts nad interpreting law; financial affairs
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What magistrates controlled membership in the senate and public works? Who was the most famous of these and what did he build?
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censors; Appius Claudius; Via Appia and aqueducts
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How many tribunes were elected annually? What were their powers?
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10; propose legislation and the power to veto
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What were the eventual responsibilities of the aediles?
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check on accuracy of measures and weights; keep public ways clean; develop public games
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Who were the nobiles? What was a novus homo?
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those who could claim a consul as an ancestor; anyone who was the first consul in their family
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How were senators easily identified? What were they not allowed to be involved in?
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the purple stripe; trade or leaving Italy without permission
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What were the Senate's only true legal powers? What was its primary role?
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finance and foreign affairs; giving advice
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According to legend why was Quintus Mucius nicknamed Scaevola?
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Because he stuck his right hand in a fire to prove his loyalty to Rome. He was therefore "left-handed".
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In what year did the Etruscan stronghold of Veii fall to Rome?
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396
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What kind of power did a dictator have? For how long?
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all power; 6 mos.
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In what year did the Gauls defeat the Romans? What creatures saved the capital?
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390; geese
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What was another name for southern Italy? Whom did the city of Tarentum call on for help against Rome in 280? What were his high cost victories called?
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Magna Graecia; King Pyrhus,; Pyrhic victory
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What was the population of Rome by 279? How many of the these were men of military age?
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million; three hundred thousand
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