ANCIENT ROME
Use information from Chapter 7, the video and teacher lecture to complete the following.
1. According to legend, the builders of Rome were two brothers named _______ and
_________.
2. What happened to them when they were children?
3. Which became the first king of Rome?
What happened to his brother?
4. Rome was founded on the banks of which river?
5. What were the indigenous people of the area called?
6. Who were the people from the north that later became the kings?
7. The Romans got their gods from another culture which had settlements on the
southern part of the Italian peninsula. Name it.
8. After overthrowing the Etruscan king, which type of government did the Romans
establish?
9. How was power divided in the Roman government?
10. Who could vote?
11. Who could be elected to the Senate?
12. What was one of the greatest victories for the plebeians during the early
Republic?
13. What was the Roman code of laws called?
14. Where was it displayed?
15. What were the elected representatives of the plebeians called?
16. About which year did the distinction between plebeian and patrician fade?
17. Who was required to serve in the Roman army?
18. Describe the area ruled by Rome in 509 B.C.
By 265 B.C.
By 133 B.C.
19. What were the wars between Rome and Carthage, lasting from 264 B.C. to 146
B.C., called?
20. Where was Carthage located?
21. Which earlier empire had it been a colony of?
22. What was the reason for the wars?
23. What is Hannibal famous for?
24. Name the Roman general who defeated him?
25. What became of Carthage?
26. How did the treatment of the territories conquered by Rome during the Punic
Wars differ from that of the territories Rome had conquered earlier?
What problems did this create?
27. List some other problems faced by the Romans following the Punic Wars?
28. Who was the leader of Rome’s worst slave revolt?
29. Name the members of the first triumvirate.
Which of them conquered most of present day France, then called Gaul, for
Rome?
Which of the other two did he defeat in battle to become sole ruler of Rome?
How did this effectively end the Roman Republic?
30. Even though Julius Caesar had designated his grandnephew, Octavian, as his heir
another ruling triumvirate was formed after his assassination. Who were the other
members?
Which of them formed a military and romantic alliance with Cleopatra?
31. How did Octavian finally become the first emperor of Rome?
What did he call himself?
Which title did the Senate give him?
33. What was the most common way for a Roman Emperor to die?
34. Describe the boundaries and territory of the Roman Empire in A.D. 117.
35. List some of the Roman accomplishments during the Pax Romana.
36. Why was the Roman road system important?
37. What was a pater familias?
38. What were the Roman staple foods?
39. What happened to the city of Pompeii?
How did its excavation help us understand Roman life?
How did wealthy Romans decorate their walls and floors?
40. What were some popular public entertainments?
41. Who was the first non-Italian Roman emperor?
What were some of his accomplishments?
42. Describe Roman religious attitudes and practices.
43. Who was the first emperor to wear a beard?
What were some of his accomplishments?
44. Describe the Pantheon.
45. Which was the most troublesome province in the Roman Empire?
How was the Jewish religion at the root of the region’s problems with Rome?
What happened to Jerusalem in A.D. 70?
What did the Jews at Masada do?
46. Which new religion from Judea was viewed as a threat to the empire? Why?
47. Describe the Roman persecution of early Christians?
48. Describe the Emperor Constantine’s “conversion” to Christianity.
49. When was he, finally, baptized?
Why the delay?
50. How did he influence and consolidate Christian doctrine?
51. What were some of the problems that faced the Roman Empire by A.D. 200?
52. Which emperor divided the empire into eastern and western halves?
53. After Constantine reunited the two empires, where did he move the capital?
54. When did the empire split again?
55. Why was the western part weaker than the eastern part?
56. What happened to the western part during the 300’s and 400’s?
57. What happened to the western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in A.D. 476?
58. List at least 4 reasons for the fall of the western empire.
59. What became the new name for the eastern part of the old Roman Empire?
60. Who was the new eastern empire’s greatest emperor?
61. Which famous church, now a mosque, did he have built?
62. List some of his other accomplishments.
63. When did the eastern empire finally fall?
64. List at least 4 things the modern western world got from the Romans?