Chapter 10 Section 3 The late Roman Republic

What is the best reason Rome's territory grew.

• As Rome's army defeated attackers they took over their land.
• They spent the money gained from a conquered territory and purchased land.
• They conquered new lands but allowed the conquered people to do what they wanted.
• The discovered new lands in the Mediterrean

The Roman army was divided up into legions. A legion is how many men?

• 5000
• 10,000
• 1000
• 6000

What was the advantage of dividing the Roman Army into a number of legions?

• They could be flexible and fight as small or large group
• They could divide their power all over the world
• This was the simplest way to manage troops
• It gave them more generals so they could easily replace any generals that were killed in battle.

How did Roman farming change as the empire grew

• They produced more crops on each farm
• They developed many new implements such as the forerunner to the tractor 
• they went from small farms to large Mega farms
• They stopped farming and relied on conquered territories to do the work

A series of Wars fought between Rome and Carthage, a city in North Africa.

• Punic Wars
• Persian Wrs
• Peloponnese Wars
• Gallic Wars

How did Rome gain territory?

• They bought more land with the money they captured in war.
• They discovered places others had never seen
• When other countries attacked them they took their land
• They held votes to see who wanted to join them and some did.

How did the first Punic War start?

• Rome Attacked Carthage to get their land
• Rome Attacked Carthage to get their gold
• Carthage attacked Rome because Rome had become too powerful.
• Carthage sent its troops to Scicily and Rome Responded

General of Carthage in the second Punic War that crossed the Alps and attacked Rome.

• Scipo
• Hannibal
• Ceasar
• Antony

The battle that ended the second Punic War was fought where?

• Sicily off the Coast of Rome
• The Alps
• Zama in North Africa
• In Gaul now France

Why was the third Punic War fought?

• Because Roman senators worried that Carthage was becomeing too powerful so they wanted to get them before it was too late.
• Because Carthage Attacked Rome Again
• Because Carthage went into Sicily
• Because Carthage was creating alliances with Roman slaves.