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55 Cards in this Set
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He authored the Aeneid...
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Virgil
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This was the province governed by Julius Caesar....
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Gaul
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This is the modern day country that once was Gaul....
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France
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The number of years Caesar governed Gaul....
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nine years
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Caesar was which of these....dictator, emperor, consul, governor
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consul, dictator, governor
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This is the main river near the original location of Rome...
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Tiber River
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Name the wars between Rome and Carthage...
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Punic Wars
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Carthage was located on this continent....
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Africa
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To get from Rome to Carthage, Romans had to sail across this sea...
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Mediterranean
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The Punic Wars began over a dispute about this island...
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Sicily
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Who were the Etruscans?
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early settlers of the Italian peninsula
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Name the 2 classes of Roman citizens.....
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Plebeians....Patricians
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Of the 2 classes, which was the group of common people?
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Plebeians
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Who won the Punic Wars?
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Rome
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The first Roman Emperor...
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Octavian (also known Augustus)
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Named after Emperor Constantine.....
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Constantinople
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The city-victim of Mount Vesuvius....
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Pompeii
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Slavery was/was not legal in Ancient Rome...
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was legal
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I wonder what the details are of Julius Caesar coming to power in Rome...
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....so do I. That's a great essay question
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Are the details of the Roman persecution of the Christians and the eventual end of the persecution important to Roman history?
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Why, yes...and what a good essay topic that is!!!!
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The reason the book says that the Romans put Jesus to death....
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fear of him setting up a new government.
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The Roman official at Jerusalem...
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Pontius Pilate
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What are the Twelve Tables?
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first collection of Roman laws written down
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These structures helped with Roman irrigation....
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aqueducts
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The Romans did or did not develop an alphabet that other used....
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did
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Name the huge Roman stadium where events were held...
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Colosseum
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This was the chief of the Roman gods....
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Jupiter
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The Aeneid is the "sequel" to this literary classic....
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The Iliad
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The Roman version of Hera...
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Juno
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Dido was the beautiful queen of this city-state.....
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Carthage
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"Republic" is a Latin word that means...
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"people's affair"
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The plebeians made up this fraction of the Roman population....
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9/10
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This was the Roman farmer who became a kind dictator then returned to being a farmer....
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Cincinnatus
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"Punic" means...
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Phoencian
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Carthage ruled this European city whose capital today is Madrid...
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Spain
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This Carthaginian general led is troops over mountains into the Italian peninsula....
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Hannibal
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Hannibal led his soldiers across these mountains to invade Italy....
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The Pyrennes and the Alps
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Hannibal's cavalry rode these...
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elephants and horses
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This Roman senator repeatedly urged theat Rome destroy Carthage...
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Cato
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Gaul included France and this modern day European country...
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Italy at first, later Belgium and Switzerland
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This man began as a political partner of Caesar's but became his enemy.....
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Pompey
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The manner of Caesar's death....
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assassination
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This relative of Caesar took control of Rome after the assassination....
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Octavian
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How did Octavian's name get changed to Augustus?
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The Senate re-named him
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Roman emperors ruled for these many centuries....
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four
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Emperor Constantine located the "New Rome" in the Eastern Empire on the site of this Greek city...
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Byzantium
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Today Constantinople is known as...
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Istanbul
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Which was the first Roman Emperor to adopt the Christian religion?
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Constantine
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What country would you be in if you were having a picnic lunch at the foot of Mount Vesuvius?
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Italy
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This name is given to the four books written about the life and teachings of Jesus....
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The Gospels
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The early followers of Jesus were practicioners of this religion....
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Jewish
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Emperor Constantine granted religious freedom to the Christians after this....
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a vision of a flaming cross in the sky before going into battle
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This emperor made Christianity the official religon of the empire...
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Theodosius
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Quarreling between patricians and plebeians about what laws meant led to the creation of these....
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Twelve Tables
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Which are the Romance languages?
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Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian
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