Rome And North America Ancient History

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Where is the Italian peninsula located

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Center of the Mediterranean sea

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Where is Rome in Italy?

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Centre, near west coast

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What helped Rome's expansion?

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It's location so it spread outwards in all directions

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What three factors increased unification in comparison to Greece

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fewer isolated valleys, Apennine Mountains less rugged, and more fertile plains

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Roman ancestors were the

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Latins

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Who did the Romans share the peninsula with?

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Greek colonists and Etruscans

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What four things did Romans learn from the Etruscans?

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alphabet, arches in buildings, field drainage techniques, and religion

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What year was the birth of the roman state

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509 BC

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What does Republic mean

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thing of the people

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Republican leaders where chosen by who?

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The people

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What was the most powerful governing body called?

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the senate

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who was in the senate?

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300 Patricians (landowning upper class)

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What was the position the senators elected for

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Consuls

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How many Consuls

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2

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What did the 2 consuls do?

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supervise government and command armes

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How long could consuls do

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1 term

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what would the senate do during wartime?

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empower a dictator and empower him up to 6 months

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Who were the plebeians?

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farmers merchants artisans and traders with no political power

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Who would pleabians elect to keep interests

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Tribunes (I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE)

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Tribunes could later do what?

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propose laws

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Who had absolute power in the family

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male head of the household

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As time passed what two places did women have access to and why was this important

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theatres, baths, where a lot of politics happened.

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Who learned to read/write in roman society

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boys and girls from upper and lower classes

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What was the basic Roman military unit called?

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Legion

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How many people were in a legion

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5000 people

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Who supplied legionnaires with supplies?

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themselves

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People who were conquered had to do two things

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acknowledge Roman leadership by paying taxes and supplying soldiers, and also allowed to keep customs, money, local government.

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What four main things did the romans take after from the greeks?

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art, literature, philosophy, and science

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What was the blending of Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic traditions.achievements called

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Greco-Roman civilization

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What two things helped with Greco-Roman expansion

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trade and travel

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Who wrote the famous poem presented as Roman History

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Virgil

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What was the poem's name

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Aeneid

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Who was the hero in aeneid

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aeneas

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What was the Aeneid modeled after?

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Homer's odyssey

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a historian who hoped to rouse patriotism

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Livy

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a historian who wrote of roman power and liberty

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Tacitus

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What two art forms did romans use in public buildings and homes?

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Mosaics and frescos

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A building with a dome out of concrete

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pantheon

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What two engineering points did Romans exceed in

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travel (roads, bridges, harbour) and aqueducts (plumbing)

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Who proposed in Alexandria, Egypt that the earth was the centre of the universe?

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Ptolemy

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How long was Ptolemy's theory accepted

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1500 years

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Who compiled a medical encyclopedia used for over 1000 years

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Galen

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What was the Law of Nations

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Laws applying to everyone citizens and noncitizens

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What weakened and crushed the Roman republic thus turning it into the Roman Empire

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expansion around the Mediterranean sea

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Who was Carthage

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North Africans and Phoenician traders

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What were wars between Carthage and Rome called

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Punic Wars

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What is Punicus

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Latin word for Phoenicians

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What happened in the first Punic war

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Rome defeated carthage and won sicily, Corsica and sarinia

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What happened in the second Punic war

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Carthaginians sought revenge, Hannibal led army all the way to Italy costing half his armies. Carthaginians still failed after 15 years. Rome wanted revenge.

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Who ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed"?

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Cato

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What happened in the Third Punic War

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Rome destroyed Carthage, survivors killed or sold, romans poured salt on ground, master western mediterranean

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What policy did Romans then commit to

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Imperialism

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What did Romans call Mediterranean

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Mare Nostrum (Our sea)

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what were huge estates bought by wealthy people

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latifundia

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Who were two patricians who first attempted reform

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Graccus brothers

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What did Tiberius do

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call upon state to distribute land to poor farmers

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Gaius elected ten years after his brother's call

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used public funds to buy grain to feed the poor

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Julius nine year conquest was completed in

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Gaul (France)

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Who else dominated roman politics

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Pompey

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Pompey feared Ceasar and got senate to do what

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order disbandment of his armies.

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Which river did Ceasar cross?

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Rubicon river

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Four things Ceasar did

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Launched many public works employing jobless, gave land to poor, granted roman citizenship to more people, julian calendar used for 1000 years

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Who teamed up to find Ceasar's killers but eventually fought each other.

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Marc Antony and Octavian