ROME TEST 1

6. Why is Rome perfectly located?

• because it's high enough in the mountains to not be attacked
• because it is on the very eastern part of the peninsula, close to Greece
• because it is centrally located, has great natural defenses and great farmland
• because of its location by the Atlantic Ocean

17. What did a patrician have to be able to do?

• fight like a centurion
• be the strongest man from his area
• trace his family's blood line back to the founding of the republic
• pass a very difficult exam to enter the senate

19. What position in the senate did the patricians develop for the plebeians to keep them happy?

• the Tribune of the Plebeians
• the Plebeians chamber
• the power of the plebeians
• the office of the plebeians

5. What was Rome at this time?

• a powerful empire
• a very important city in the Etruscan empire
• the home of the Greeks
• a city located in the mountains. It did not have much value at all

14. Who were the greatest Roman soldiers?

• generals
• centurions
• cavalry commanders
• consuls

What was the significance of the Roman Forum?

• It was a religious sanctuary

• It was a residential area for the elite

• It was the center of political, economic, and social life

• It was a military training ground

8. What year were the Etruscans pushed out of Rome? This year was also the year the Roman Republic was born.

• 590 BC
• 519 BC
• 599 BC
• 509 BC

10. How did the Romans develop their army?

• by using slaves
• by paying mercenaries
• by taking ideas from other armies and using those ideas in their own armies
• by paying Greeks to fight for them

4. The Etruscans conquered most of the peninsula. The Greeks stopped them from conquering it all. What were the Greeks able to do once they stopped the Etruscan conquest of all of Italy?

• try to conquer Rome themselves
• become the "teachers of Italy"
• conquer all of Sicily
• head back to Greece before they were destroyed

Which group of people were considered the elite class in Roman society?

• Slaves

• Patricians

• Freedmen

• Plebeians