Download Ancient Rome Anticipation Guide Downey Ch. 7

Ancient Rome Anticipation Guide
Downey Ch. 7
Name____________________
Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check
mark if you agree or think the statement is true.
After reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which
you have changed your mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional
“worksheet.” You may have to “read between the lines” (remember
inferences?) Use the space under each statement to write the
phrase/sentence as well as the page and paragraph(s) where you found
information to support your thinking. Do this for all statements.
_____1. Our government in the United States is more like the government
of Greece than Rome.
_____2. Although plebians gained more political power they really didn’t
have the time to serve in public office.
_____3. by 44 BCE the Roman Republic was the superpower of the
Mediterranean.
_____4. There were more reasons to make an alliance with Rome than there
were reasons not to.
_____5. In the Roman Republic the rich got richer and more powerful and
the poor got poorer.
_____6. The civil wars were caused by greed.
_____7. Ceasar was a general, a member of the First Triumvirate, and a
consul, however his most powerful position was that of dictator.
_____8. Caesar was assassinated because he increased the size of the
Senate from 300 to 900.
_____9. The First and Second Triumvirates failed because the men who
belonged to them were too ambitious.
_____10. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were to generous and both were
killed because senators didn’t want to give up their land or money to the
poor.
_____11. Augustus was a traitor to the Roman Republic because he took
power away from the people.
_____12. The political causes were the most important reasons for the fall
of the Roman Republic.
_____13. The early Roman ideas about loyalty and duty to one another were
more important to them than they are to us today.
_____14. Roman emperors tried to stop the spread of Christianity and then
they gave up because they realized Christians were not a threat to the
Roman Empire.