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Chapter 6 Punic Wars
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12/11/2012

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What river was Rome built on?
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Tiber
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Original Romans
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latins
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Republic
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Peopel who elect officials
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Legendary founder of Rome
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Romulus
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Who fought the Punic Wars?
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Carthrage and Rome
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What was wrong with the Roman ships during the 1st Punic war and what happens to Romes navy?
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Too top heavy

Loses navy in 2 bad storms

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Prize of 1st Punic War
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Sicily
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Alleged father of Romulus and Remus
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Mars (god of war)
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Second Triumvirate
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Octavian, Marc Antony, Marcus Lepidus
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1st Triumvirate
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Juliues Caesar, Pompay, Crasus
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Carthaginina general of the First Punic War
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Hamilcar Barca
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Carthagian general of the second Punic war
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Hannibal
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How long were Roman dictators allowed to rule?
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6 months
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Why did Carthage not have a large standing army?
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Government feared military takeover
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Who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama
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Scipio the Elder
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Dictator that suffered a terrible defeat at the Battle of Cannae?
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Farro
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Victory with heavy losses
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Chief executives of Rome
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Council
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What are mercenaries?
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Paid to fight in conflicts
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What emperor called for a census to be taken, so taxes could be adjusted?
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Caesar Augustus
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What is Rome's seaport called
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OSTIA
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Aqueducts
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man made tunnels that carry water.
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Period of Roman Peace 27 BC to 180 AD
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Pax romana
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What did Rome do to Carthage after the Third Punic War?
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Plowed salt onto the field 
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Patricians
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Wealthy upperclass --- Noble birth

abt 300

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Plebians 
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Common people
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what does Augustus mean?
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Exalted one
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Who was the first Roman Emperor ?
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Octavian (Augustus)
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Who was the 2nd Roman Emperor?
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Tiberius (ordered for the Crucification of Jesus)
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Emperor that brought the ROman Empire to its largest size?
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Tajan
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Emperor that built a wall across Britain to keep out Scottish invaders?
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Hadrian
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Cautious dictator that refused an all out battle with Hannibal
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Fabius Maximus
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Who wrote the Aeneid?
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Virgil
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When was Julius Caesar assasinated?
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March 15, 44 BC
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Emperor rumored to have started a fire which destroyed half of Rome?
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Nero
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Roman governor that had Jesus put to death?
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Pontius Pilate
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Roman emperor made Christianity Rome's official religion?
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Theodosius
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Group of officials that protected rights of Plebians
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Tribunes
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Roman emperor that ended persecution of Christians
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Constantine
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Engineering
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Etruskians
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1st foregin invader with elephants
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Pieris
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