Ancient Rome Review Sheet
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What river did the Rome begin around?
Who were the original people that lived in this area?
Who was the civilizations that lived to the north?
Why was it easier to unite Rome than Greece?
What does republic mean in its original Latin term?
What is a republic? What was the role of the senate?
Who were the patricians and the plebeians? How were each represented in Senate?
Why were Consuls elected? Dictators? Tribunes?
What ideas did the U.S. take from the Romans?
What was the Society of Rome like? Women? Children?
Where did they originally get their religion from?
Why do they call the Mediterranean mare nostrum?
Why were the first, second and third Punic wars fought? Know who attacked whom in each
Who was Hannibal and where did he attack from? What type of animal did he use? What was
their experience traveling to Rome?
How did Rome end up winning all three wars?
How does this mark the beginning of imperialism for the Romans?
Who was Julius Caesar? The first triumvirate- names, who falls first and second? Who is left in
charge?
What did Julius Caesar become? What are his contributions to Rome?
What becomes of Julius? When is he killed? What is this called? Who kills him?
Who forms the second triumvirate? What do eventually becomes of them?
What does Octavius become? New name? How long does he rule? What does he contribute?
Under whom does Rome become an empire?
What is the Pax Romana?
What did the Roman government provide to the people as forms of entertainment? How did
they provide for the poor?
Who was Virgil? What did he write and what was it about?
How did Romans satirize make fun of the government?
What art forms do they use?
What great things did they engineer?
What type of laws did they develop?