The Rise of Rome

According to a traditional legend, who founded the city of Rome?

• Helen of Troy
• Romulus and Remus
• Aristotle and Plato
• Julius Caesar

Who could hold political office in early Rome?

• any citizen
• women
• only plebeians
• only patricians

What important political reform occurred in 287 B.C.?

• Council of the Plebs could pass laws
• Council of the Plebs was created
• Women earned the right to vote
• Plebeians could marry paticians

Adopted around 451 B.C., Rome's forest code of law was called the...

• Twelve Tables

• Rule of Law

• Forum

• New Roman Law

In the Second Punic War

• Carthage attacked Rome.
• most battles took place at sea.
• Carthage defeated Rome.
• Rome invaded Spain.

What happened on March 15 in the year 44 B.C.?

• Caesar began a civil war.
• Caesar's enemies killed him.
• The Council of the Plebs met.
• All enslaved people were freed.

What title did Octavian take?

• Cicero
• Antony
• King
• Augustus

What was Hadrian's Wall?

• a wall built for defense in Britain

• an aqueduct

• a great wall in Italy

• a memorial to Hadrian in Rome

Which of the following helped Rome's trade?

• the Punic Wars
• Hannibal's invasion
• Hadrian's Wall
• Roman currency

Italy is 

• an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
• a peninsula shaped like a boot.
• a large country in Central Europe.
• part of Scandinavia.