Ancient Rome Quiz

To block a government action

• consul

• patrician

• republic

• Etruscans

• veto

In ancient Rome, an official from the patrician class who supervised the government and commanded the armies

• Etruscans

• patrician

• consul

• dictator

• republic

Huge estates bought up by newly wealthy Roman citizens

• consul

• latifundia

• republic

• Etruscans

• patrician

Northern Italians who shared the Italian peninsula with the Romans; gave the Greek alphabet to the Romans; taught the Romans to use the arch in architectural projects

• dictator

• consul

• patrician

• republic

• Etruscans

In ancient Rome, a member of the lower class, including farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders

• plebeian

• Etruscans

• consul

• republic

• patrician

A population count

• consul

• census

• patrician

• Etruscans

• republic

A system of government in which officials are chosen by the people

• Etruscans

• republic

• dictator

• consul

• patrician

Carthaginian general who led his troops on an epic march through the Pyrenees and Alps in an attempt to invade the Romans during the Second Punic War

• Hannibal

• Etruscans

• republic

• patrician

• consul

In ancient Rome, a member of the landholding upper class

• patrician

• Etruscans

• republic

• dictator

• consul

Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

• patrician

• Etruscans

• republic

• imperialism

• consul