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Chapter 8 and 9 Vocabulary
Republic
Legions
Patricians
Plebeians
Consuls
Veto
Praetors
Dictator
Latifundia
Triumvirate
Aqueduct
Currency
Vault
Satires
Odes
Anatomy
Forum
Gladiators
Rhetoric
Plague
Inflation
Barter
Reforms
Chapter 8 Study Guide
Sections 1 and 2
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9.
What language did the early people in Rome speak? ___________________
How did geography play a part in the location of Rome?
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Who are the twins in the legend of the founding of Rome?
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What two groups helped to shape Roman Civilization? __________________
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What did the Romans learn from the Greeks?
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What did the Romans learn from the Etruscans?
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How did Rome become the masters of all Italy?
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What was the Roman Confederation?
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What could allies do?
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16.
What were the similarities and differences in the rights of the patricians
and plebeians?
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Who was Rome’s most important legislative body?
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How did the plebeians try to get more rights? What rights did they get?
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Who was Cincinnatus?
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What famous American is compared to him?____________________________
What were the Twelve Tables?
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Who did Rome fight in the Punic Wars? __________________________________
How many wars were there?____________________________________________
What famous leader fought against Rome in the 2nd Punic Wars?
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Sections 3 and 4
1.
What problems did the Roman Republic have?
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2.
What 3 men were the first Triumvirate?
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Who finally ruled alone? ______________________________
How did he march into Rome?___________________________
3.
What did Julius Caesar call himself? _____________________
4.
Who did Julius Caesar put in the Senate?
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5.
What were some of Caesar’s reforms?
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6.
What did Caesar’s enemies think of him?
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7.
When is the Ides of March? ___________________________
8.
What happened on the Ides of March?
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9.
Who was in the second Triumvirate? _____________________
10.
Who did Octavian fight in the Battle of Actium? ____________
11.
What title did Octavian take for himself? _________________
12.
What was the Pax Romano?
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13.
Name several of Augustus’s accomplishments as emperor?
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14.
What did Vespasian build? _____________________________
15.
What disaster occurred during Vespasian’s rule? ____________
16.
What was Hadrian’s Wall built for? ______________________
17.
What unified the Roman Empire?
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Chapter 9 Study Guide
1.
What was significant about Roman art?
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2.
What designs were used for Roman buildings?
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3.
What were they the first to create? _____________________
4.
What famous concrete building is still standing today?
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5.
What building is built to honor Roman gods? ________________
6.
What was Livy? _____________________________________
Who was Tactitus? __________________________________
7.
Who was Ptolemy? ___________________________________
8.
What were Roman engineers famous for building?
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9.
What were 2 forms of sport for the Romans?
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10.
What age did boys become adults? _____ Girls? ______
11.
What kind of clothes did they wear? _____________________
12.
What freedoms did women have?
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13.
Who was Spartacus? _________________________________
14.
What religion faced hardships in the Roman Empire?
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15.
What are the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire?
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16.
What did Diocletian do?
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