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CHAPTER 8 TEST REVIEW
1. Who was Rome’s greatest public speaker?
CICERO
14. What helped Rome’s trade?
ROMAN CURRENCY
2. Who were the rich people that greatly
influenced the growth of Rome?
ETRUSCANS
15. What important political reform occurred in
287 B.C.?
COUNCIL OF PLEBS COULD PASS LAWS
3. What was the first war Rome defeated
Carthage?
FIRST PUNIC WAR
16. What was the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall?
DEFEND BRITAIN
4. What position interpreted laws and acted as
judges?
PRAETOR
5. What is the port city on the Bay of Naples?
PUTEOLI
6. What were large farming estates worked by
enslaved people?
LATIFUNDIA
7. Who were the artisans, shopkeepers, and
owners of small farms in ancient Rome?
PLEBEIANS
8. What included Crassus, Pompey, and Julius
Caesar?
FIRST TRIUMVIRATE
9. What island was part of Italy?
SICILY
10. What is a human-made channel for carrying
water long distances?
AQUEDUCT
11. Who founded the city of Rome according to
legend?
ROMULUS AND REMUS
12. In early Rome what social class could hold
political office?
PATRICIANS
13. In what year did the Romans take over most
of Italy?
267 B.C.
17. What were Rome’s first written laws?
TWELVE TABLES
18. What was Augustus’s former name?
OCTAVIAN
19. What happened in the Second Punic War?
CARTHAGE ATTACKED ROME
20. What happened on March 15, 44 B.C.?
CAESAR’S ENEMIES KILLED HIM
ESSAY
21. How did the Greeks influence the Romans?
- GREEKS TAUGHT THE ROMANS THEIR
ALPHABET
-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE,
AND LITERATURE ARE MODELED AFTER
GREEKS
- GREEKS TAUGHT THE ROMANS HOW TO
GROW GRAPES AND OLIVES
22. How are modern dictators different from
Roman dictators?
- ROMAN DICTATORS WERE APPOINTED
BY THE SENATE IN TIMES OF DANGER
AND GAVE UP THEIR POWER AFTER THE
DANGER PASSED
- MODERN DICTATORS TAKE POWER BY
MILITARY FORCE AND DO NOT GIVE UP
THEIR POWER VOLUNTARILY