Ancient Rome

a mountain range that runs all the way down the boot from north to south

• Appennines
• Alps

mountains that separate Italy from the European lands to the north

• Appennines
• Alps

a form of government in which its citizens vote for the leader

• oligarchy
• monarchy
• republic

people who played a major role in shaping Roman civilization

• Egyptians
• Etruscans
• Mesopotamians

a group of 6,000 soldiers

• pilum
• legion

gave the Romans a source of water and a way to the rest of the Mediterranean world

• Alps
• Appennines
• Tiber River

Natural geographic barrier located north of Italy

• Mediterrean Sea
• Great Wall
• Alps Mountains 
• Himalayan Mountains 

A system that balances the distribution of power in a government; keeps any one part of government from becoming stronger or more important than the others

• Checks and balances
• Democracy
• Legislation
• Civil Law

An important Italian tribe from the north that eventually conquered Rome.

• Egyptians
• Carthagians
• Romans
• Etruscans

A political alliance that Julius Caesar used to unofficially gain control of the Roman Republic.

• First Triumvirate
• Second Triumvirate
• Senate
• Cabinet