Early Rome

According to legend, Rome was founded by:

• A pair of twins named Romulus and Remus

• A she-wolf named Romanessa

• Ms. Renfroe

• A pair of twin girls named Ealanna and Trish.

The city of Rome can be found:

• In eastern Asia, near China

• In South America

• In Italy

• In France

The Romans dominated the territory around their city, and later built an empire, because:

• they were rich beyond belief

• Roman people were physically very large and strong, with nasty tempers

• they had a well-equipped, highly-trained army

• the people in other parts of the world wanted the Romans to take over

From about 750 b.c. to 500 b.c., ____________ settled in farming villages in southern Italy.

• Americans

• Algerians

• Greeks

• people from China

Later, the Romans would model their ____________, ________, and ___________ after those of the Greeks.

• schedules, parenting, and technology

• hairstyles, footwear, and speech

• buildings, literature, and sculpture

• car, planes, and teleportation pads

For a while, an aggressive Italian civilization called the _________________ ruled Rome and its surrounding area.

• Etruscans

• Trojans

• Hoosiers

• Florentines

The basic Roman military unit was a group of 100 soldiers, known as a ______________, commanded by a centurion.

• a block

• a legion

• a century

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Roman soldiers would advance in a line, shields locked together, in a formation known as a ________________________.

• phalanx

• a buckle

• a lock

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