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| Dates for the Republic? | 509-27 B.C. |
| Romes's first consuls | Brutus and Collatinus |
| King of Clusium in 509 B.C. | Lars Porsenna |
| Who killed Brutus? | Aruns - son of L.T. Superbus |
| Who killed Aruns? | Brutus |
| Who single-handedly help off the Etruscans at the Sublician Bridge? | Horatius Cocles |
| What does "Cocles" mean? | one-eyed |
| Who unsuccessfully attempted to kill Lars Porsenna? | Mucius Scaevola |
| What famous battle occurred in 496 B.C.? | Lake Regillus |
| Against whom did the Romans fight in 496 B.C.? | Latins |
| Who led the Romans to victory at Lake Regillus? | Castor and Pollux |
| Who were the Dioscuri? | Castor and Pollux |
| To what location did the plebeians go when they abandoned Rome in 494 B.C.? | Mons Sacra |
| What did the patricians offer the plebeians to get them to return to Rome in 494 B.C.? | tribuneship |
| What is the name for the group of men given the task of establishing Rome's first written code of law? | Decemviri |
| What is the name of Rome's first code of law? | 12 Tables |
| What did the Lex Canuelia allow? | intermarriage between plebs and patricians |
| Which Roman general was exiled for conspiring to be a tyrant? | Coriolanus |
| Who stopped Coriolanus and the Volsci army? | Veturia and Volumnia |
| Who left his plow to lead Rome against the Aequi? | Cincinnatus |
| Against what tribe did Cincinnatus lead the Romams? | the Aequi |
| Who was the leader in the Roman siege of Veii? | Camillus |
| How long was the siege of Veii? | 10 years |
| What Etruscan town was captured and destroyed by Camillus? | Veii |
| In what year did Veii fall? | 396 |
| Why was Camillus sent into exile? | Wouldn't loot town of Falerii |
| In what year did the Gauls sack Rome? | 390 |
| Who was the Gallic leader in the invasion of Rome? | Brennus |
| What structure on the Capitoline was not destroyed by the Gauls? | Arx or Citadel |
| On what hill was the Arx? | Capitoline |
| Who led the defense of the Arx during the Gallic invasion? | Manlius |
| Who alerted the Romans that the Gauls were making a night attack on the Arx? | sacred geese of Juno |
| What were the Gauls given to leave Rome? | 1000 lbs. of gold |
| What were Brennus words when the Romans complained about the scales? | Vae victis! |
| Who resolved to stop the fighting between the classes by offering one consulship to the plebeians? | Camillus |
| What did Camillus have built to commemorate the peace/harmony between the classes | Temple of Concord |
| With what rugged mountain Italian tribe did the Romans have three wars in the last half of the 4th century B.C.? | Samnites |
| What was the great disaster for the Romans during the 2nd Samnite war? | Caudine Forks |
| How many wars did Rome have with the Samnites? | 3 |
| What happened in Roman history in 321 B.C. | Caudine Forks disaster |
| When did the Samnite Wars end? | 290 B.C. |
| Who came to the aid of Tarentum in 280 B.C.? | King Pyrrhus of Epirus |
| What city did Pyrrhus come to the aid of against Rome? | Tarentum |
| Against what foreign invader did the Romans first encounter elephants? | Pyrrhus |
| What was the last battle of the war against Pyrrhus? | Beneventum |
| What is the term for a victory won at an excessively high cost? | pyrrhic victory |
| Why did Pyrrhus abandon the war with Rome? | couldn't afford another victory |
| By what year did Rome control Italy south of the Rubicon | 266 B.C. |
