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ROMAN HISTORY EXAM #1B : NAME: _______________________________________________
1. On the map below, color in the ITALIAN PENINSULA.
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2. Who is shown in the photo above?
What is their story? What’s up with this?
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3. ___________________________ What sea
is most important to Rome for trade and
defense?
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4. ___________________________ What
mountain range runs across northern Italy,
protecting them from attack?
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5. ___________________________ What
group of people did the Romans learn from,
before they wiped them out?
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6. ___________________________ What is
the name of the River that Rome was built
around?
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7. ___________________________ What
peninsula is Rome on?
8. ___________________________ What is
the name of the mountain range running down
the “spine” of the Italian Peninsula?
9. On the map to the right, show the furthest
extent of the Roman Empire. Shade it or color
it.
Word Bank for SHORT ANSWERS: Agean, Alps,
Appenines, Balkan, Etruscans, Italian, Tiber,
Mediterranean, Tuscany.
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10. On the map below, color in the MEDITERRANEAN SEA.
11. On the map to the right, label ROME, CARTHAGE,
and
SYRACUSE.
12. ____________________ What island saw most of the land fighting on?
13. ____________________ What did mountains did he cross to surprise the Romans?
14. ____________________ What language did the Romans speak?
15. ____________________ What country had asked Rome for help, getting them into the war?
16. ____________________ What device on Roman ships helped them to board ships, but might have caused
them to sink in heavy storms?
17. ____________________ Who won the 1st Punic War?
18. ____________________ What Carthagian general wanted revenge, therby starting the 2nd Punic War?
19. ____________________ What animal was his secret weapon?
20. ____________________ What was the name of the war in which Rome first fought Carthage?
Word Bank for SHORT ANSWERS: ALPS, APPENINES, CORVUS, ELEPHANTS,
GREEK, HANNIBAL, LATIN, PUNIC WAR, ROME, SICILY, SYRACUSE, ZAMA.
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21. On the map below, put a “C” for the Battle of Cannae, and a “Z” for Zama.
22. ON THE BOX TO THE RIGHT, show how
Hannibal was able to defeat the Romans at Cannae
using blocks and arrows.
23. ____________________ What battle finally defeated Hannibal?
24. ____________________ What do you call it when you try to surround a city and starve them out?
25. ____________________ What Roman general finally was able to outsmart Hannibal?
26. ____________________ What sea were these two empires fighting for control over?
27. ____________________ What “weapon” did the Romans make worthless at Zama?
28. ____________________ How did Hannibal die?
29. ____________________ What continent was the Battle of Zama fought on?
30. ____________________ How many Romans were killed at Cannae?
Word Bank for SHORT ANSWERS: 35,000, 70,000, AFRICA, ATLANTIC, ELEPHANTS,
EUROPE, HISPANIA, MEDITERRANEAN, SCIPIO, SIEGE, SUICIDE, ZAMA
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31. In the box below, diagram how a Roman city was planned out.
32. ON THE BOX TO THE RIGHT, diagram how a
Roman aqueduct was made. Use three levels.
33. ____________________ What city was the Roman Empire based in? (easy!)
34. ____________________ What did the Romans call the province that is present day France?
35. ____________________ Just inside the wall, the Romans built this for the gods.
36. ____________________ What do you call a person that designs a city?
37. ____________________ What mountain range protected the Italian Peninsula from invasion... mostly.
38. ____________________ What country that we just studied is east of Rome?
39. ____________________ What was the center of the Roman city called?
40. ____________________ What stone held all the arches together?
41. ____________________ What body of water was called “Middle Earth” by the Romans?
42. ____________________ What city was buried by a volcano, preserved today, so we can study Roman life?
Word Bank for SHORT ANSWERS: ALPS, EGYPT, ENGINEER, FORUM, GAUL, GREECE,
HERCULANEUM, KEYSTONE, MEDITERRANEAN, POMPEII, ROME, TRENCH.
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43. In the box below, diagram how the Romans made a barrel arch to support large structures.
44. ON THE BOX TO THE RIGHT, diagram how the
COLOSEUM was laid out... what it looked like!
45. ____________________ What was the name of a slave who had to fight in the Coloseum?
46. ____________________ What was the name of his nephew how documented much of what we know
about the erruption?
47. ____________________ What is the name of the light stones, that float, that were first shot out, landing
mostly as pebbles?
48. ____________________ Where was the most famous Coloseum of them all?
49. ____________________ What was the formal name for Coloseum? Starts with a “A” and ends in “theater”
50. ____________________ What was the name of the city on the Bay that was destroyed by a mudslide?
51. ____________________ How many tons of debris were being shot out of the volcano per second?
52. ____________________ What kind of execution took the prisoner and nailed him/her to a cross?
53. ____________________ What was the name of the Volanco that destroy Pompeii?
54. ____________________ In what year did the city become destroyed?
54. ____________________ What was the name of the Roman admiral that set out on a rescue mission?
Word Bank for SHORT ANSWERS: 79 AD, 79 BC, 1000 TONS, 100,000 TONS,
AMPHITHEATERS, CRUCIFIXION, EXECUTION, GAIUS, GLADIATORS, HERCULANEUM,
MARSEILLES, PLINIAN ERUPTION, PLINY, PUMICE, ROME, THEATER, VESUVIUS.
KEY: PAGE 1
3. MEDITERRANEAN
4. ALPS
5. ETRUSCANS
6. TIBER
7. ITALIAN (ITALY)
8. APPENINES
2. Romulus and Remus were two boys cast
out by their father and raised by a wolf. They
founded a city on the Tiber River. They got in a
fight about who should be the king, and Romulus
killed Remus. That’s why Rome is called Rome.