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World History/Geo I
Chapter 6 Study Guide
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1.) What type of geographical feature is Italy?
2.) What is Italy shaped like?
3.) What mountain range is located in northern Italy?
4.) What is the name of the mysterious group of people that came to inhabit Italy?
5.) What two brothers are given credit as the builders of Rome?
6.) What group of people probably built villages and then a central city that they will call
Rome?
7.) Who were the patricians?
8.) Who were the plebeians?
9.) What made up the executive branch in the Roman Republic?
10.)
What made up the legislative branch in the Roman Republic?
11.) Describe the struggle between the patricians and plebians.
12.)What were the Twelve Tables?
13.) Who was the head of the household in an early Roman family?
14.)How many soldiers constituted a Roman Legion?
15.) What happened in the 1st Punic War? (Causes, fighting, and effects)
16.) What happened in the 2nd Punic War? (Causes, fighting, and effects)
17.) What happened in the 3rd Punic War? (Causes, fighting, and effects)
18.) Who was Tiberius Gracchus?
19.) Who was Gaius Gracchus?
20.)
Who made up the 1st Triumvirate?
21.)Why was Julius Caesar killed?
22.)
What was the Ides of March?
23.)
What significance does the Rubicon River play in the life of Julius Caesar?
24.)
Who were the members of the 2nd Triumvirate?
25.)
Who was the 1st emperor of the Roman Empire?
26.)
Explain why Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero were all considered bad emperors.
27.)
Who was the 1st of the good emperors?
28.)
Who was the last of the good emperors?
29.)
What was the Pax Romana?
30.)
What was the jus gentium?
31.) Under Augustus, to what number were the Roman Legions reduced?
32.)
What is an aqueduct?
33.)
What language was spoken by the Roman people?
34.)
What are the Romance languages?
35.)
Christianity developed from what major religion?
36.)
What was the Talmud?
37.)
Who were the disciples?
38.)
What was the message preached by Jesus of Nazareth?
39.)
Who was the leader teacher of Christian belief in the non-Jewish community?
40.)
Which part of the Bible is devoted mostly to the Christian religion?
41.)Why did many Christians face persecution?
42.)
Who was the 1st Christian Roman Emperor?
43.)
What emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?
44.) What is the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, from most important to least
important?
45.)
What was the Church in the west called?
46.)
What was the Church in the east called?
47.)
What is inflation?
48.)
What causes the Roman Empire to be easily invaded by so many Germanic Tribes?
49.)
In order to more easily rule over the vast Roman empire, what does Diocletian do?
50.)
Who is put in charge of the western empire under Diocletian?
51.) What city becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire under Constantine?
52.)
After the death of what emperor does the Roman Empire finally split into an eastern
and western empire?
53.)
What was the name of the eastern empire?
54.)
What was the name of the western empire?
55.)
What Germanic group invaded Adrinople, Italy, and Rome, eventually killing the
emperor of the eastern Empire?
56.)
Who was the famous leader of the Huns?
57.)
What two Germanic groups divided the area of Gaul between themselves?
58.)
What Germanic soldier killed the Roman Emperor and then took control of Rome?
59.)
What language was used in the western empire?
60.)
What language was used in the eastern empire?