Roman History Exam 1

The part of a Roman theater that is the scenery

The stage of a Roman theater

The dancing area for choruses in a Roman theater

The exit of a Roman theater

Full oval theater in which gladiatorial combats were held

The Romans signature war formation

The name for the kind of Roman drama which represented historical themes

True or False

There is good evidence that gladiators often said "Those who are about to die salute you"

The kind of gladiator who fights with a trident and a net

The thumbs down gesture the crowd made to indicate that the defeated gladiator is to be killed

The gesture that indicates the defeated gladiator should be spared

Roman politician that led a Roman army against the city of Rome and created a program of legislation to strengthen the Senate

The word for the "way of the ancestors"

I published "proscription" lists containing the names of citizens who may be legally killed and whose property may be stolen

i began as second-in-command to Metellus in Jugurthine war; married the aunt of Julius Caesar, and competed with Sulla for the command

I lead the senate,as Pontifex Maximus, in beating Tiberius Gracchus to death

The Battle where Scipio Africanus finally defeats Hannibal in North Africa in 202 BC, bringing the Second Punic War to an end

General who wishes to refrain from engaging hannibal at Cannae (I die fighting)

Apointed dictator after the disaster at Trasimene. My name literally means "delayer"

The "Ice Man" discovered in melting glacier from thouands of years ago

The city that became the arch-enemy of Rome during their third and second centuries BC

Dido was married to a phoenician man named _________, until her scheming brother pygmalion secretly murdered her husband

One of the Poenicians' most important contributions to the early history of Rome

The language that phoenicians spoke, related to Hebrew and Babylonian

One of the earliest examples of the Greek alphabet anywhere in the world

The Greek word for such a colony

The word for a "nest egg" slave that was born into slavery

When a freed slave became a freedman he was a given a pilleus libertais which is a special kind of what?

Some accounts of the Etruscans' origins claim that they arose from the native people of Etruria who are reffered to as the ______________

True or False?

Greeks and Romans both charged the Etruscans with sexual excesses, perhaps because women occupied higher status in Etruscan society than they did in the culture of their critics.

We are the politicians who seek the support and approval of common people by promoting land distribution, extension of citizenship and other things

Centurions are often depicted carrying this implement

I leave my ox and plough to fight the Aequi then return to take up farming when battle is won.

Large plantation farms worked by slaves

A means of teeling the futures strongly associated with the Etruscans - examination of sacrificed animals internal organs

Romulus borrows symbols of power from the Etruscans and one is having a group of ______ escort the king

The figures who accompany the king and later magistrates carry the symbol. (barrel of cords with ax on the front)

Sign of royal power Romulus said to have borrowed from the Etruscans that is a special kind of throne

A band of old men that advised the king

The people the Romans invited for festival and then would kidnap their women

According to some accounts, Romulus is "taken up" and becomes the god ___________

The Sabine king the Romans invite from Cures; a king of religion

The warlike king that succeeded Numa

The set of triplets that do single combat with a group of Alban champions called the Curiatii

The name of the protective spirit of the father of a househould

The custom that demanded starting over from the beginning when mistakes were made during rituals

Livy attributes the draining of the Forum and the building of the Temple of Jupiter optimus to this king

The possible son of a slave who is designated by a flaming head as the next likely candidate for king

Servius Tullius's daughter murders him by...

Sextus Tarquinius gets the kings expelled from Rome when he does what?

What does Brutus do to his sons after they become involved in a conspiracry

What is it called when the plebeians retreat from the city of Rome and go on an ancient version of a labor strike

A sacrosanct official who has the power to veto, power to grant help to plebeians in trouble, and power to intercede

Roman historian who records the story of the seven kings in a history called Ab Urbe Condita

The series of offices through which one went to climb the ranks in Rome

Magistracies which did not confer imperium on their holder were electedin the ___________.

Magistracies which did confer imperium on their holder were elected in the ___________.

The position in politics with accounting and financing acquired after military service

The position often ran for after serving as quaestor which gave one supervision of roads temples and festivals.

This magistracy serves the function of judge, governor, and general. Posessing both imperium and the right to sit in the sella curulis, it was elected by Comitia Centuriata.

The name for a toga that was bleached when someone was running for office

The highest ordinary migistracy

Assembly that consisted of 35 tribes

Only plebeians could vote in this assembly; it elected tribunes; its resolutions were called "plebiscites"

The spear carried by a roman soldier which bent or broke at the end

The largest unit of the Roman army. Originally only two, one for each consul

Initially the main tactical unit of the Roman army was a unit of 2 centuries called a ____________.

Later, the main unit came to be the______________ of six centuries.

The general of a Roman army

The highest rank attained by soldiers coming up through the ranks

Once the Romans had conquered you , they could give cities citizenship or make cities a municipium without the right to vote, or ___________.

The right to marry romans

The right to become a roman

A good road in Rome idfk

When somebody vows himself to the gods as an offering in return for victory

A Hellenistic monarch invited by Greek to put the Romans in their place.

Greek for "into the middle of things"

What does Pyrrhus die of?

Hiero II, the Mamertines of Messana call on the Romans and who (at the same time) for aid?

To compensate for their ineptitude fighting at sea, the Romans invent the ________ to balance things out.

The mother of the Gracchi and daughter of Scipio, I refer to my sons as "jewels"

Pyrrhus of Epirus brings this war animal to Italy before Hannibal does

these animals scared juno which warn the defenders of the capitoline of a sneak attack and save the day

Before beginning a naval battle, it was customary to take the auspices using this animal

What rank are soldiers with horizontal mohawks on their helmets in a roman army?

What kind of priest wears a special hat with stick coming out of it?

The greeks stereotyped these people as lustful, hard-drinking libertines, mostly because they accord their women higher public status

Raised his own army when the senate refuses to vote him legions for the war.

Nephew of king Micipsa of Numidia; wages war on cousins; executed in Marius' triumph

Roman version of Hermes (messenger of gods) sent by jupiter to visit aenas and tell him to obey his destiny and ditch dido

One of the most characteristic features of the italian-estruscan temple

The kind of Roman comedy written by Plautus and Terence.

Hooker with a heart of gold

The greek mathematician said to have invented a laser mirror weapon for zapping ships

Antiebellum

Post Bellum

Cursus Honorum

Cap of freedom slaves wear after freed

Freed slave

Born slave

Grain distribution; kept power with bread and circus; social security