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| Italy is what type of land form? | Peninsula |
| Mountain Rage in the North of Italy. | Alps,  |
| Mountain Range that runs down the center of Italy . | Appenines,  |
| Rome is built on | seven Hills overlooking the Tiber River |
| Romans believe that their history could be traced back to what Trojan Hero? | Aeneas,  |
| The story of Aeneas's trip from Troy to Italy is told in | The Aeneid |
| Author of the Aeneid | Virgil |
| Legendary founders of Rome supposibily raised by wolves | Romulus and Remus,  |
| Why did Romulus kill Remus according to legend? | Remus mocked one of his ideas |
| Rome's last three Kings were | Etruscans |
| The last Roman King was Harsh and what happen as a result? | He was killed and the Romans wanted no further King |
| Government began by Romans where people elect people to rule for them | Republic |
| Wealthy of Rome they held all the power in the early Repbulic | Patricians |
| Chosen by the Romans during times of war and given absolute power | Dictators |
| Farmer chosen by the city to be dictator. He willingly given up power after defeating the enemies | Cincinntus |
| the common people of Rome | Plebeians |
| A government made up of three parts | Tripartite |
| elected officials in Rome, some were judges other organized festivals or managed finances. | Magistrates |
| the two most powerful magistrates in Rome's Government. They ran the city and lead the army. | Consuls |
| A council of wealthy and powerful Romans that advised the City's leaders. | Senate |
| Roman senators held office for how long? | life |
| Elected magistrates who ran the city | assemblies |
| Officals in Roman government that had the power to prohibit actions of other officials | Tribunes |
| word that means to prohibit or forbid | Veto |
| The Roman's official language | LaTIN |
| System in the Roman government where officials could limit or block the power of another group of officials so they would not become too powerful. | checks and balances |
| Written laws of the Romans | The twelve tables |
| Romes public meeting place and site of important government buildings and temples. | Forum |
| Why did Rome's territory grow in the early Republic? | Due to outside threats |
| A 6000 person unit of the Roman Army | Legion |
| A division of the Roman Army that consist of 100 men | Centuries |
| Before Rome conquered Italy it was made up mostly of | farmers |
| A series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage ( a city in North Africa) | Punic Wars,  |
| The word "Punic" means | Phoenician |
| War that began when Carthage sent its armies to Scicily an island southwest of Italy | First Punic War |
| War that began when Carthage attacked Italy and Rome by crossing the Alps | 2nd Punic war,  |
| General of Carthage that attacked Rome in the Second Punic War. He corssed the Alps with Elephants | Hannibal |
| How was Hannibal and Carthage defeated? | The romans unable to defeat him in Italy attacked his home city of Zama and Hannibal was forced to return there where he was defeated |
| War that began when Rome feeling threatened by Carthage decided to attack Carthage to end the Threat | Third Punic War |
| two borothers that were tribunes that wanted to create farm land for the poor. They were both assiassinated | Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus |
| Consul that encouraged poor people to join the army | Gaius Marius |
| Why did Gaius Marius become powerful? | because the poor were loyal to him because he won and shared what he captured with them |
| Roman Consul that was threathened by Marius's popularity and went to war agaisnt him in a civil war | Lucius Cornelius Sulla |
| A war between citizens of the same country | Civil |
| The site Where the Romans defeated Carthage in the second Punic War | Zama |
| War between Carthage and ROme that began because Rome felt that Carthage was getting too powerful again | Third Punic War |
| What happened as a result of the third Punic War? | women and children of Carthage were sold into slavery and the earth of Carthage was salted so nothing would grow |
| Slave that led a slave revolt in Rome | Spartacus,  |
