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Rome Jeopardy
2012
Vocab
Government
Daily Life
Gifts
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Vocab for 100
• The term for the class of poor
people.
• What are plebeians?
Vocab for 200
• The 200 year period of peace
started by Augustus.
• What is Pax Romana?
Vocab for 300
• The term for taxes on
imported goods.
• What are tariffs?
Vocab for 400
• Two types of people who
became gladiators.
• Who are criminals,
prisoners of war, or wealthy
thrill-seekers?
Vocab for 500
• He came up with the idea that
emperors “rule by divine right.”
• Who was Diocletian?
Government for 100
• Rome fought this city-state
during the Punic Wars.
• What was Carthage?
Government for 200
• Two similarities between the
Justinian Code and our law
code today.
• What are:
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Use of witnesses, judges, lawyers
Would consider motivation of witnesses
Innocent until proven guilty
Some standardized national laws
Government for 300
• He started the professional
army.
• Who is Gaius Marius?
Government for 400
• Three causes of the fall of
Rome.
• Some possibilities:
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Weak/crazy emperors
No rule about inheriting throne
Not enough soldiers
Population drop from plague, earthquake, floods
Germanic groups attack
Empire too large to govern effectively
Government for 500
• These people were chosen to
protect the rights of the poor.
• Who were tribunes?
Daily Life for 100
• The volcano that errupted in 79
A.D., preserving artifacts and
bodies in Pompeii
• What is a Mount Vesuvius?
Daily Life for 200
• Two differences between
patricians and plebeians.
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Rich vs. poor
Small % of population vs. larger
Could hold office vs. could not
*both paid taxes, were in the army, were
citizens!
Daily Life for 300
• Two changes made by Julius
Caesar.
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Gave land to former soldiers
Roads and buildings
Funded gladiatorial games
Doubled Senate
Extended citizenship
Daily Life for 400
• Famous Carthaginian general
who brought elephants over the
Alps to invade Italy.
• Who is Hannibal Barca?
Daily Life for 500
• Advantages of a legion over a
phalanx
• Smaller and faster
• Soldiers could split up/ change
direction
• Well trained
Gifts for 100
• An invention used as a “glue”
to hold parts of buildings
together.
• What is concrete?
Gifts for 200
• Two advantages of a
professional army.
• What are:
– Motivated- choice
– Trained
– Paid (also helped motivation)
– Gov’t supplied weapons
Gifts for 300
• Two places you might see a
dome today.
• Sports arenas, theaters,
capitol buildings, igloos…
Gifts for 400
• The term for when laws are the
same in all parts of a country.
• What is standardized?
Gifts for 500
• Advisors to the consuls in the
Roman Republic… we have
officials with the same name
today!
• What is the Senate?