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What does Italy lie on?

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A peninsula in the Mediterranean

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What is Italy attached to Europe by?

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a massive range of snow-covered mountains called the Alps

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What mountain range runs down the centre of Italy?

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the Appennines

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What did Romans call the Mediterranean?

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“Our Sea”

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Where was Rome founded?

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On seven hills on the volcanic west coast of italy

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Where was Rome located?

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At a key crossing point of the Tiber river

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Where was Rome in terms of trading routes?

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It was a natural stopping point on a valuable trade route

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Rome was far enough from the coast to escape what?

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Pirates and enemies

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Rome was lose enough to the coast for what?

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To benefit from the Mediterranean’s busy sea trade

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Name 2 of Rome’s most commonly traded items

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Olive oil, wine

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How did the circles of seven hills help Rome?

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Provided protection against attack

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What did the seven hills become?

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Rome’s centre

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What did Romans build in the seven hills?

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Important government buildings

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What were the seven hills home to?

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Religious temples and entertainment facilities

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Where did roads branching off from the seven hills area go to?

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the outside world

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What did the land around the city have?

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Fertile soil, good water supply, mild climate

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How did the qualities of fertile soil, good water supply, and mild climate help Rome?

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Helped their agriculture flourish and support the large population

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What did Rome’s central location help do?

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Take over much of Italy

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How did Italy’s central location help Rome?

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Helped rome become a powerful force in the Mediterranean

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What is a popular legend in Rome?

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The founding or Rome?

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What was the trojan hero Aeneas the ancestor of?

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Rome’s founders- Romulus and Remus

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Explain the story of Romulus and Remus

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They were abandoned as babies but were rescued by a wolf and raised by a shepherd. When they grew up, they founded their own cities.

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Who became the first king of Rome?

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Romulus

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What evidence have archaeologists found about the founding of Rome?

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They uncovered ruins suggesting that the hills around Rome contained small villages, and those villages merged with villages to create a larger stllement.

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What were most of Rome's original residents?
Latins who came from around the tiber river area
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What were the Latins like?
They were united, and their cities were often at war with one another
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What helped Rome become strong?
It welcomed many different people from many different lands
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Who stayed in Rome and helped it grow in size and strength?
Foreigners of different classes and professions
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Who influenced Rome the most?
Greeks to the south and Etruscans to the north
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What did the Greeks introduce Rome to?
important advances in agriculture, architecture, and learning
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How did the Greeks introduce such things to Rome?
Through travel and trade
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What were the Etruscans skilled at?
trading, metalworking, engineering
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What did Romans do with what they learned from Greece?
They grew olives, modified the Greek alphabet for writing, and poets copied the Greek style of the long epic poem
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Who was Tarquin the Proud?
A cruel Etruscan leader
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What did the 3 etruscan kings do?
they laid out the city's streets in a grid plan around the central square. Replaced mud huts with stone houses and built Rome's first temples and public buildings
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How did the Etruscans introduce their skills to Rome?
3 Etruscan kings who came to rule rome
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What happened to tarquin?
Romans overthrew him and established a new form of governemnt
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What happens in a republic?
Citizens vote for their leaders
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Who were considered citizens in Rome?
Free adult men, but not all citizens were equal
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What two groups were the Roman society divided into?
Patricians, Plebians
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What were the patricians?
wealthy landowners
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What were the plebians?
included poorer farmers and craftsmen
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What made up the majority of Rome's citizens?
Plebians
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What were plebians like in government?
They were under-represented
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What did plebians do in order to get a say in Rome's governemnt?
they went on strike
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How did the plebians go on strike?
They left the city, shutting down Roman shops and businesses, and set up their own government
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What happened to economic activity after the plebians went on strike?
They came to a halt
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What did the particians agree to do after the plebians went on strike?
to share their power
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What was the name of the representatives elected by plebians?
Tribunes
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What did the tribunes do?
They fought to protect the rights of ordinary citizens
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Why did Plebians want Rome's laws to be written down?
patricians often interpreted them to favour their rich friends
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What are the Twelve Tables
Roman rules carved into bronze tablets and displayed for everyone to see
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What did the twelve tables do?
They protected all Roman citizens from injustice
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How did the twelve tables affect our society?
Some of these laws are the basis of our own laws today
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What did Rome's new government consist of?
3 branches- executive, legislative, judicial
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What did the executive branch do?
led the government and army
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What did the legislative branch do?
They made the laws
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What did the judicial branch do?
They applied the laws
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What did the Romans do in order to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful?
They put checks and balances
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What did the Romans replace the position of king with?
2 leaders called consuls
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What did the consuls have the authority to do?
They had the authority of a king but only for one year
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Why were there 2 consuls?
So that the consuls had the right to veto (reject) each other's decisions
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What did the assemblies do?
represented the plebians
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what was the legislative branch made up of?
The Senate, elected judicial officers, and two assemblies
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What did the senate do?
advised the consuls
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What did Senators often speak about in the senate house and public squares?
Issues
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What was a skill highly valued in rome?
Delivering speeches
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Who was one of Rome(s most brilliant speakers?
Cicero
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What did Cicero use his speaking abilities for?
To attack those who he believed were a threat to the public
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In times of crisis, who did the Romans appoint?
Dictators
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What's a dictator?
Someone who has complete control but were expected to give up power after danger had passed
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name a dictator
Cincinnatus
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What did Cincinnatus do?
When Rome was facing defeat by a fierce enemy, he took charge, defeated the enemy, then returned to his farm
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Why was cincinnatus celebrated by the Romans>
They valued the idea of civic duty- putting service to the community ahead of personal interest
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Where did the forum develop?
in a valley between the palatine and capitoline hills
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What had the forum previously?
a burial ground for when the tiber river flooded
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Why did the swamp become a piece of desired real estate?
Once rome began to grow, its population spilled down the hills
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What was the forum?
It was the city's open-air market
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How was the Roman Forum born?
An Etruscan king built a sewer to drain the area and created an open public square paved with pebbles
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What are some things Romans bought at the forum?
local fruits and vegetables, imported greek pottery
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What looped through the forum?
Rome's oldest road- the Via Sacra
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What were the buildings along via sacra like?
Were little mud huts, over time they got replaced with permanent structures
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What did kings build along the via sacra?
a royal residence, shops, houses and temples dedicated to gods
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What was the forum the centre of?
Rome's religious, economic, and social acitivity
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What did the forum become, after the republic was founded?
The centre of roman politics
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What was built around the small forum?
Huge public and government buildings
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What was the temple of saturn?
it was dedicated to one of Rome's most important gods, and it was the treasury, holding the growing riches of the republic
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What was the Curia?
the meeting place of the roman senate
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What political things took place at the forum?
public speeches to rioting mobs
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What was displayed at the forum?
the twelve tables
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What did the forum also provide a setting for?
public spectacles
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Name 3public things held at the forum
theatrical performances, athletic games, funerals
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