Ancient Rome 11-3-05
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- Antiginous took over where?
- Greece & Macedonia
- Seleceos took over where?
- Bactria & Anatolia
- Ptolemy took over where?
- Egypt
- When Alexanders empire dissappears, who takes over?
- Rome
- Rome is know for what...3 things
- Military, Administrative Skills, & adapting Greek culture for its own uses
- Italian Peninsula divides what into halves?
- Mediterreanean Sea
- Italian Peninsula has what kind of natural harbers?
- few good ones
- Rome owes it's beginning to...3 things
- Tiber River, Ford, 7 Hills
- Po R was known for what?
- half Italy fertile land by it
- Robicon R was known for what?
- His faithful decision
- The early people of rome where who? 3
- Latins, Etruscans, & Greeks
- Who was in the Aeneas? 2
- Romolus & Remus
- Founding Fathers looked at Rome why? 3 things
- Royal, Republican, & Imperial
- Republican means...?
- Gov't officials chosen by the people
- Tarquin the Proud is remembered why?
- Etruscan King thrown out in 509 BC & his removal establishes an antiking tradition
- why problems between the Patricians and the Plebeians?
- Pat... 10-30% population, 70% of community's wealth, 100% political voice.
- How did the Plebeians attack the Patricians?
- Taking Strikes
- Good Results of War... 2
- New land & more pride
- Bad results of war... 3
- Cause social & economic problems, & growing gap between rich & poor, & overcrowded cities
- Latifundia means...?
- Large farms
- Tiberius known for...
- Land reform
- Gaius known for...
- Cheap grain
- Generals that attempted to save the republic... 2
- Marius & Solla
- What happened at the battle of Actium?
- Octavians naval forces win against Marc Antony
- All of the following are Rome achievements...3 things
- Establishes long lasting system of gov't, establishes a civil service system, & expands Roman road network
- All of the following are reasons why the Civil Service System started...3 reasons
- efficient gov't, challenge power of senate, & opportunites to plebians
- what is the term for 200 years of peace, prosperity, & order?
- Pax Romana
- Romans influenced by Greeks in what 2 catagories?
- Art & Literature
- Virgils Aeneid was designed to do what?
- Arrouse patriotism
- Livy chose to write about what?
- Romes past heros
- Roman Architecture was characterized by what?
- grandeur
- Roman aquaducts did what?
- carried water to city
- What was a new building material used by Romans?
- concrete
- What was the most important temple of Roman Times?
- Pantheon
- ROmes most lasting legacy was its what?
- law
- 3 principals with Roman Law was what?
- innocent until proven guilty, right to face an accouser, & entitled to a jury of your peers
- What was the major weakness of Romans imperial government?
- succession
- What are the military causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 2
- Germanic invasions & mercenaries
- What are the social causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 2
- Values & Luxery
- What are the political causes of the decline and fall of Rome? 3
- corruption, involvemnt, & economic reasons
- What year did it fall in?
- 476 AD
- Diocletion did what?
- Double size of army, Divide empire
- Constantine did what?
- Capital, Christianity
- Who arrived in territory in order to escape huns?
- Germanic invaders