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21 Cards in this Set
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Lake Dwellers lived on what?
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Stilt homes above the lake.
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Etruscans can be described as what.
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Well planned, urban people
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Etruscans did what.
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Fortified cities, encouraged tribes to move to cities
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Etruscans influence what.
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Role of Women, wearing a toga, very intricate iron work, round tombs for soldiers and round houses, and banquets, terracotta ( reddish –brown clay)
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Fasces was what.
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bundle of rods ties with red cord, symbolizing unification of people
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Romulus and Remes were created how.
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. Created by mars who slept with an Earth woman. She is required to abandon children. Rather than dying they are adopted by a she wolf. Years later they grow up and go to the site of what will be rome.
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Who was a trojan hero that led his trojan followers on the journey from troy which led the founding of the city that would later be named Rome.
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Aeneas
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Virgil wrote what latin epic which was what
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Aeneid, latin epic that tells the legendary story of Aeneas
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Who does Rome ally with against thieving, covetous hillsmen
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Veii
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Where does Pyrrhus win the pyrrhic victories over Rome?
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Heraclea and Ausculum
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Rome allies with who under Pyrrhus?
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Carthage
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particular power father has where he has absolute control over his children lives as long as father is alive.
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pater familias
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Who is the goddess of the hearth and family?
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Vesta
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What was used as an execution site for murderes and traitors?
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Tarpeian rock
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2 officials in almost every office because this was how to end political corruption. No one holds public office until they have served 10 years in the military.
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Collegiality
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The senate was made up of 300 high court officials known as what
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patricians
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Patricians responsibilities in the senate were what?
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make treaties,-supervise administration
-administer provinces -conduct wars -investigate major crimes |
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General body of the Roman Citizens
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Plebians
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most famous dictator in history. A dictator on six separate occasions.
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Cincinnatus
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Plebians demanded political rights in exchange for what?
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military service
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first written roman code of law
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12 tables
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