Rome

The Code of Hammurabi and the Twelve Tables of Rome are examples of

• written laws

• religious rules of conduct

• economic sanctions

• early constitutions

The Twelve Tables were the written laws of

• ancient Babylonia

• the Mauryan Empire

• the British Empire

• ancient Rome

One contribution of ancient Roman culture was the development of

• the concept of zero

• the process of making silk

• a republican form of government

• the printing press

A major contribution of the Roman Republic to Western European culture was the

• concept of government by laws

• belief that political power should be controlled by the military

• establishment of agricultural communes

• rejection of the concept of slavery

Descendants of the original families of Rome; wealthy landowners; large amount of political power

• plebeians

• slaves

• freedmen

• patricians

Merchants, farmers, artisans; at first, very little political control

• plebeians

• slaves

• freedmen

• patricians

Italy’s location on a peninsula, the protection provided by the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, and its climate made it ideally suited for the emergence of a mighty empire.

• True

• False

When the last king of Rome was thrown out, his place was taken by two magistrates called

• the Senate

• tribunes.

• consuls.

• plebeians

One geographic similarity between India and Rome is that both are located

• on archipelagos

• on peninsulas

• between two oceans

• south of the equator

Form of government in which power

rests with the citizens who have the right

to vote for their leaders

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• republic

• tyranny