HUM 101 Chapter Four – 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 B.C.E.?
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Etruscans
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What event marks the end 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 Jus Civile of Julius Caesar?
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Roman law
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Who is the Roman equivalent to the Greek god Artemis?
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Bacchus
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What political events characterized the last century of the Roman Republic (133 B.C.E. to 31 B.C.E.)?
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Power struggles between Marcus, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar.
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What was the significance of the Battle of Actium (31 B.C.E.) 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 is the most famous of all Roman poets?
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Vergil
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According to the Ara Pacis, 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 House of the Tragic Poet?
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Pompeii
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What is 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 C.E. 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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Carthage
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Ancient city in northern Africa
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Cleopatra
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Egyptian Queen defeated by Octavian
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Dido
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Mythological Queen of Carthage
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Diocletian
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Emperor who divided the Roman Empire into two territories
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Tuscany
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a region in North-Central Italy
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Catullus
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Roman lyric poet
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Aeneid
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Roman epic poem about the founding of Rome
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Pliny the Elder
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Roman naturalist and writer who die in eruption of Vesuvius
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Punic Wars
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wars named after the Phonicians
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Tribune
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representatives of the Plebians
