Name:______Per._____ Date:______
Order of Attack! 1) Use your Brains! (always check to confirm) 2) Then Notes, Then book, Then me.
1) What is the fancy geographic term for Italy? (page 294)
2) Where was the center of life in ancient Rome? (my wife would LOVE it there!) (page 306-307)
3) What role does the system of checks and balances play in the U.S. and Roman governments? (page 305)
4) Who fought in the Punic Wars? (page 309)
5) Describe no less than three similarities between the Roman Republic and the U.S. government. (page 303-305)
6) Explain no less than two ways that the landscape of the Italian Peninsula affected early settlement there. (page 294-295)
7) What culture did Rome get influenced by after they conquered them? (page 311)
8) Who were Rome’s common people? What did they create to gain power in the government? (page 299)
9) What do you call a government in which people elect their leaders? (page 298)
10) What do you call a ruler with almost absolute power? (page 298)
11) How was civic duty demonstrated in Rome? (give me two ways!) (page 304)
12) What do you call Rome’s two most powerful magistrates? Why are there two? (page 303)
13) What was the purpose of the Law of the Twelve Tables? (kind of like our constitution) (page 305)
14) Which general led an attack on Rome around 218 BC? (page 310)
15) Describe Italy’s climate. What did it provide Romans with? (page 295)
16) Briefly describe Rome’s military. (what type of formation did they use?) (page 309)
17) Why did the Roman’s trade grow so much? (they needed something!) (page 309)
18) What was a 3 part government called? (think tricycle!) (page 203)
19) What was a legion? (page 309)
20) Who was Spartacus, and why was he so special? (page 313)