1 WHAT WERE THE FAVORABLE GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT ROME? THE ALPS MOUNTAINS AND SEAS PROVIDED PROTECTION IT WAS NOT TOO NEAR OTHER MEDITERRANEAN POWERS IT WAS LOCATED AT A NATURAL CROSSROADS FOR TRADE

2 WHAT WERE PRESIDENTS OF THE ROMAN SENATE CALLED? CONSULS

3 TO WHOM DID ROMANS GIVE DECISION MAKING POWER IN TIMES OF CRISIS? DICTATORS

4 AN EXTENSION OF DEMOCRATIC FEATURES BECAUSE THEY FOUGHT TO GET EQUALITY WITH THE PATRICIANS WHAT DID CLASS STRUGGLES IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC LEAD TO?

5 WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE ROMAN SENATE? PATRICIANS-UPPER CLASS LANDOWNERS

6 WHAT TYPE OF DEMOCRACY DID THE ROMAN REPUBLIC HAVE? REPRESENTATIVE/ INDIRECT DEMOCRACY

7 WHO WERE SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE RIGHTS OF PLEBEIANS IN THE ASSEMBLIES? TRIBUNES

8 WHO LED REFORMS TO NARROW THE GAP BETWEEN THE WEALTHY AND THE POOR? THE GRACCHUS BROTHERS

9 WHAT PRINCIPLE CAME FROM THE TWELVE TABLES? A MAN IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY

10 WHO FOUGHT EACH OTHER DURING THE PUNIC WARS? ROME AND CARTHAGE

11 WHO WAS THE GENERAL FROM CARTHAGE THAT WENT OVER THE ALPS MOUNTAINS TO REACH ROME? HANNIBAL

12 WHAT WERE THE CAUSES OF THE PUNIC WARS? ROME AND CARTHAGE WERE IN COMPETITION FOR TRADE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN HANNIBAL INVADED THE ITALIAN PENINSULA BY GOING OVER THE ALPS (2 ND WAR)

13 WHAT WERE THE THREE MAIN RESULTS OF THE PUNIC WARS? ROME WAS VICTORIOUS DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE (3 RD WAR) EXPANDED TRADE AND WEALTH FOR ROME

14 WHERE DID ROMAN CULTURE SPREAD AFTER THE PUNIC WARS? MEDITERRANEAN BASIN (NORTH AFRICA, ASIA, THE HELLENISTIC WORLD) WESTERN EUROPE (GAUL, BRITISH ISLES)

15 WHO IS THE ROMAN GODDESS OF LOVE? VENUS (COMPARES TO APHRODITE IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY)

16 ROMAN-GREEK GODS: JUPITER- ZEUS JUNO-HERA MINERVA-ATHENA VENUS-APHRODITE

17 WHERE CAN REMNANTS OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY BE SEEN TODAY? NAMES OF PLANETS, SPACE PROGRAM AND IN ART, LITERATURE ETC.

18 WHO COULD BE CITIZENS IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC? PATRICIAN AND PLEBEIAN MEN AND SOME FOREIGNERS

19 WHO ARE PATRICIANS? LANDOWNING ARISTOCRATS WHAT ARE PLEBEIANS? COMMON PEOPLE: FARMERS, MERCHANTS

20 WHAT WERE THE THREE MAIN SOCIAL CLASSES IN ROME? PATRICIANS PLEBEIANS SLAVES

21 WHAT WAS ROMAN SLAVERY BASED ON? NOT ON RACE- WAR CAPTIVES AND DEBT SLAVERY

22 HOW DID MILITARY CONQUESTS AFFECT THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC? TREMENDOUS WEALTH WAS BROUGHT BACK TO ROME WHICH CAUSED INFLATION

23 WHAT FACTORS LED TO THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC? -THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY IN THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM -WIDESPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT -CIVIL WAR

24 TIMELINE ORDER: 1. FIRST TRIUMVERATE 2.ASSASINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR 3. AUGUSTUS CAESAR BECAME EMPEROR 4. THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS UNIFIED AND ENLARGED

25 WHOM DID AUGUSTUS CAESAR DEFEAT TO BECOME FIRST EMPEROR: MARC ANTONY

26 WHAT GROUP ASSASINATED JULIUS CAESAR? OTHR MEMBERS OF THE ROMAN SENATE

27 WHO WAS OCTAVIAN AFTER CASESAR’S DEATH, HE FOUGHT MARC ANTONY AND BECAME THE FIRST EMPEROR OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR AND TOOK THE NAME AUGUSTUS CAESAR

28 THE PRIMARY POLITICAL PROBLEM THAT EMMERGED IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS THE FAILURE TO… PROVIDE FOR A PEACEFUL SUCCESSION OF EMPERORS

29 WHAT ARE THE DATES OF THE PAX ROMANA? 20 B.C.E.-180 C.E.

30 WHEN DID THE ROMANS DEVELOP THE CIVIL SERVICE EXAM AND A UNIFORM CURRENCY? DURING THE PAX ROMANA

31 WHAT DID A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF MONEY LEAD TO DURING THE ROMAN EMPIRE? EXPANDED TRADE

32 WHAT IS ROME’S MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF LITERATURE? THE AENEID

33 WHO WAS VIRGIL?? HE WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE AENEID

34 WHAT ARE EXAMPLE OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES? ITALIAN, FRENCH, SPANISH

35 WHAT CLASSIC FEATURE OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE IS FOUND IN AN AQUEDUCT? THE ARCH

36 WHAT DID PTOLEMY SAY WAS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE? THE EARTH (GEOCENTRIC)

37 WHAT EARLIER CLASSIC CIVILIZATION GREATLY INFLUENCED ROME? GREECE

38 IN WHAT WAYS DID ROMANS IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH? MEDICAL SCHOOLS PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS EMPHASIS ON CLEANLINESS

39 WHAT IS THE ROMAN FORUM? THE ROMAN MARKETPLACE

40 WHAT IS THE RULE OF LAW? THE CONCEPT THAT NO ONE, NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL, IS ABOVE THE LAW

41 WHAT WERE THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FALL OF ROME? M-MORAL DECAY A- ARMY MEMBERSHIP INCLUDED NON-ROMANS D-DIVISION OF EMPIRE P-POLITICAL CORRUPTION I-INVASIONS E- ECONOMY COST OF MILITARY AND DEVALUATION OF CURRENCY

42 WHEN DID THE ROMAN EMPIRE “FALL”? 476 C.E.

43 WHAT ROMAN EMPEROR LEGALIZED CHRISTIANITY? CONSTANTINE

44 WHAT SLOWED THE GROWTH OF CHRISTINITY? PERSECUTION DUE TO ITS CONFLICT WITH THE POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION OF THE ROMANS

45 WHO SPREAD CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE? MISSIONARIES, ESPECIALLY THE APOSTLE PAUL

46 WHO ESTABLISHED EARLY CHURCH DOCTRINE? CHURCH COUNCILS

47 IN WHAT RELIGION DID CHRISTIANITY HAVE ITS ROOTS? JUDAISM

48 WHAT EGYPTIAN GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE IS SIMILAR TO THE ROMAN ROAD SYSTEM? THE NILE RIVER

49 WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY? JESUS OF NAZARETH

50 WHAT IS THE RULE OF LAW? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW-EVEN THE EMPEROR

51 WHAT CITY IS IMPORTANT TO BOTH JEWS AND CHRISTIANS? JERUSALEM

52 WHERE ARE THE RECORDINGS OF THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS? THE NEW TESTAMENT

53 WHERE DID THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH EVENTUALLY BECOME THE MAIN UNIFYING FORCE? WESTERN EUROPE