I’m Etruscan You Can Answer These | Gladiatorial To Meet You | You've Got Some Gaul | The Not-So Puny Punic Wars | What a Back Stabber |
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What is a soothsayer?
This priestly group of aristocrats were consulted by others to predict future events.
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What is the triumph?
This Etruscan custom was continued by the Romans, where a parade was given to a returning war hero.
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Who were the plebians?
While the patricians were the wealthy upper class, this lower class was forced to pay taxes and serve in the military.
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What is Carthage?
This powerful city controlled the naval trade routes through the Mediterranean from its location in northern Africa.
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Who is Tiberius Gracchus?
This tribune and reformer wanted to limit the mount of land that one person could own. His idea was vetoed and his was murdered by the Senate as a result.
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Who is Lucius Tarquinius?
This man became the first Etruscan ruler of Rome in 616 B.C.E.
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What are the gladiatorial games?
These were fights between men and animals, between women and dwarfs, and between animals.
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What is a consul?
There were two of these placed above the Senate and they could either agree that a law be passed or one could veto the other and refuse a law being passed.
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What is the corvus?
In the First Punic War, Rome had to develop its navy from nothing, and one addition it made to its ships was the use of this platform that could be lowered onto enemy ships to allow Roman troops to board the ships.
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Who is Gaius Marius?
This general thought that developing a professional army would help employ and empower poor Romans by opening up the army to everyone.
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What is Palatine?
This is the name of the hill where the earliest people settle to form the city of Rome.
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What is a funeral banquet?
The gladiatorial games grew from this Etruscan ceremony where slaves were forced to fight to the death.
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What is a tribune?
These were government officials who protected the rights of the lower class and could also declare war or agree to treaties.
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Who is Hannibal Barca?
In the Second Punic War, this Carthaginian general likely marched his army and elephants through a pass in the Alps and attacked Rome from the north.
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Who is Lucius Cornelius Sulla?
This frienemy of Marius took over Rome, made himself a dictator, started a civil war, doubled the size of the Senate, and weakened the power of the tribunes. (Hint) He was "Fulla" himself.
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What are closed toes shoes or boots?
The Etruscans famously improved this laced "weapon" to improve their soldiers performance on hilly terrain as well as to better protect their body.
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What is the Fasces?
This symbol of Roman rulers power to beat or execute people was an ax bound by a bundle of rods.
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What is the legion?
This fighting style and army organizational style had several advantages over the Greek phalanx, such as its ability to protect its sides and back while separating and regrouping.
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What are latifundias?
After the Third Punic War, Rome's economy changed from small, individual farms to these large estates.
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What is the triumvirate?
Political power in Rome shifted to this group of three people who shared equal power and control of Rome.
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What is social order?
Etruscans had a strong sense of this, they way that people are classed. There was a huge divide between the lower and upper classes.
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What is the mundus?
This was the first intersection in Rome and was believed to be the meeting points between the worlds of the living and the dead.
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What is the Twelve Tables?
This set of written Roman laws was carved on bronze tablets.
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What are publicans?
After the dramatic spread of Rome, contracts were sold to these people, who would them collect the Roman taxes in their region.
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What is citizenship?
Julius Caesar was brilliant in making happy the common man. One tactic he used was granting this Roman right to the conquered people in Greece, Spain, and Britain.
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What is March 15, 44 B.C. E.
This date is known as the Ides of March, and is famously remembered as the day that members of the Senate conspired to assassinate Julius Caesar.
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