HU 4 – Flashcards
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What are the two main periods of Roman history called?
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Republican and Imperial Rome
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What people occupied Rome from 616 to 510 BCE?
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Etruscans
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what event marks the beginning of the history of the Roman Republic?
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The expulsion of the Etruscans from Rome
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What Roman class was represented in the Senate?
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patricians
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what was the name of the large open space in the center of Rome used for meetings of the senate and the assemblies of the people?
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Forum
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who was the first great roman lyric poet?
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Catullus
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what principal school of philosophy in Rome believed that the proper goal of life was pleasure?
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Epicureanism
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What greco-roman philosophy is associated with seneca, epictetus, and marcus aurelius?
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Stoicism
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what was the subject of the Ius Civile of Julius Caesar?
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Roman law
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what is the Roman equivalent to the greek god Dionysus?
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Bacchus
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what political events characterized the last century of the Roman republic (133 BC- 31BC)?
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power struggles between Marius, sulla, pompey, and Caesar.
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What was the significance of the battle of actium (31BC) in the history of the Roman Republic?
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Octavian became supreme ruler of Rome
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Who was the first emperor of the Roman empire?
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Emperor Augustus
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who was the greatest of all roman poets?
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Vergil
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according to the are pacis (Altar of Peace) how did Augustus want to be remembered by future generations?
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As a great poet
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where is the villa of mysteries?
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Pompeii
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what invention in the first century BC made possible the Roman use of barrel vaults and domes?
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cement
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Which style did roman architecture prefer?
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Corinthian
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What was architecturally significant about the shape of the pantheon's roof?
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the oculus
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what was the function of the Pont du Gard?
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It was an aqueduct
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Who is the most famous Roman satirist?
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Jevenal
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what event in CE 476 marks the formal end of the roman empire in Western Europe?
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the deposition of Romulus Augustus
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who ruled the late roman empire in the west from CE 284-305?
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Diocletian
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What style is seen in the frieze on the arch of constantine?
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Hellenistic
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what is unique about the palace of Diocletian at Split on the Adriatic Coast?
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It is shaped like a military fortress
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Ancient city in northern Africa?
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Carthage
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Egyptian queen defeated by Octavian?
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Cleopatra
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mythological queen of carthage
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Dido
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emperor who divided the roman empire into two territories
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Diocletian
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a region in north-central italy
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Tuscany
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roman lyric poet
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catullus
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roman epic poem about the founding of rome
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aeneid
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roman naturalist and writer who die in eruption of vesuvius
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Pliny
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wars named after the phonicians
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punic wars
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representatives of the plebians
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tribune
