4. The 5th century

Question 1

What is Clusium?

Answer 1

An Etruscan city that goes to war with Rome

Question 2

Who was the King of Clusium?

Answer 2

Lars Porsenna of Clusium, a tarquinii.

Question 3

What may have caused the cal apse of Roman Monarchy?

Answer 3

Lucretia?

An anti-etruscan movement

Question 4

Why is an anti-etruscan movement considered going to far?

Answer 4

Most of the elite were related to the kings.

Question 5

What effect did the fall of the monarchy have?

Answer 5

War, wall skirmishes and raiding.

Question 6

what did Lars Porsenna of Clusium attempt to do?

Answer 6

re-establish the Targunii in rome

Question 7

What did tacitus write in his histories, 3.72?

Answer 7

Lars Porsenna may be successful in taking rome

Question 8

Lars Porsenna is defeated when?

Answer 8

In the battle of Aricia in 504 BC

Question 9

what does livy say about Lars Porsenna?

Answer 9

Romans are successful, a very positive view

Question 10

What city sates exist in 5th-4th century BC?

Answer 10

Etruscans, Latins, Greeks and communities influenced by them

Question 11

What tribes exist in 5th-4th century BC?

Answer 11

Gauls and Samnites

Question 12

Which was the 2nd largest Roman city state?

Answer 12

Tibur

Question 13

Advantages of Rome’s location?

Answer 13

Vital connections due to river Tiber and is well defendable

Question 14

Date the Sack of Rome.

Answer 14

c. 387 BC

Question 15

When was Veil conquered by Romans?

Answer 15

396 BC

Question 16

What is Gallic invasion an explanation of for some Romans

Answer 16

The lack of literary sources of their history - Livy claims they were all burnt or destroyed

Question 17

Why the Treaty of Cassius?

Answer 17

Refused to accept Romes new rule

Question 18

Consequences of the Latin War?

Answer 18

Took control of the Latins and Aequians and the Volscians

Question 19

Consequences of the Samnite Wars?

Answer 19

The Latin League dissolved
Roman colonie in Latium
Capua allience

Question 20

What was involved in the Capua allience?

Answer 20

Campanian aristocracy accepted into the Roman Senate
involvement in war between Italians and Greeks of Magna Gracie
Increased contact and trade with Carthage through Carthaginian Sicily

Question 21

Rome had full control over Italy by?

Answer 21

175 BC

Question 22

List the Pros and Cons of Citizenship.

Answer 22

Cons:
Loss of independence
Full citizen responsibilities (war time ect..)

Pros:
Votes
Accepted in the army
Official ‘Romans’

Question 23

What did Citizenship without suffrage mean?

Answer 23

no influence in the Senate or the opportunity of a political career

Question 24

What are Roman/citizen colonies?

Answer 24

Small scale Roman cities or villages, made up of Roman citizens, who have retained their citizenship.

Question 25

Locations of colonies

Answer 25

strategically placed, usually near or surrounding Samnite territory

Question 26

What was Cosa?

Answer 26

An initial colony made up of small and large houses, temples, cisterns and a fully fledged forum.

Question 27

What was the problem with Cosa?

Answer 27

it was built in an undesirable location

Question 28

Influence of Rome on the modern world?

Answer 28

Establishment of the major road network, via Appia.

Question 29

Who is Pyrrhus of Epirus?

Answer 29

A greek king

Question 30

War against Pyrrhus?

Answer 30

The Thuri asked Rome for help against the Lucanians and Tarentum gets worried about increasing Roman involvement in Sicily and calls in Pyrrhus

Question 31

Who won the Battle of Heracles?

Answer 31

Pyrrhus

Question 32

Who supported Pyrrhus?

Answer 32

Samnites, Lucanians, Bruttians and southern Greek cities

Question 33

Defeat of Pyrrhus?

Answer 33

275 BC