Study
Guide for Chapter 7 - Rome Ruled the
Western World for Centuries
Terms
and People to Know
Ch7
Sec 1, Pages (142-148)
Romulus
and Remus Appenine Mountains Po River
malaria Latium Etruscans
Tiber
River Seven hills of Rome republic
Assembly of Centuries
Assembly of Tribes
Senate consuls
veto checks and
balances praetors
censors
tribunes dictator
patricians
plebians Twelve tables
legion
paterfamilias lares penates
Jupiter Vesta
Pontifex Maximus
Ch7
Sec 2, Pages (148-151)
Carthage First Punic War
Second Punic War
Hannibal Scipio Battle of Zama
Third
PunicWar Seleucid king The provinces
proconsul
publicans tax
farming
latifundia equites
Spartacus
Crucifixion
Ch7
Sec 3, Pages (151-155)
The
Gracchi Gaius Marius Lucius Sulla
Julius Caesar First
Triumvirate Pompey Crassus Gallic Wars
Rubicon River Cleopatra
Ptolemy Ides of
March The Second
Triumvirate
Octavian Marc Antony
Lepidus Battle of
Actium Augustus
Julian Emperors Tiberius,
Caligula
Claudius Nero Hadrian
Antoninus Pius
Marcus Aurelius
Ch7
Sec 4, Pages (155-162)
Pax
Romana aqueducts Praetorian Guard
colonus Circus
Maximus Colosseum
Gladiators Ptolemy Galen
Cicero Virgil
“Aeneid” Ovid
Horace Tacitus Plutarch “Parallel
Lives”
Ch
7 Sec 5 pages (162 –166)
Messiah
( Annointed One) Rabbis Simon
bar Kokhba
Jesus of Nazareth ( Jesus Christ )
Disciples Pontius Pilate
Saul of Tarsus ( Paul)
Cybele and Isis martyrs Constantine
Theodosius
patriarchs Pope Council at Nicea
Ch
7 Sec 6 pages (166 –175)
Commodus Diocletian Constantinople
inflation
collegia
Ostrogoths
Ostrogoths The Huns ( Attila )
Visigoths Alaric Chalons Fall of Rome AD 476D
Anarchy Romulus
Augustulus
Ideas
to understand
•
How did the geography of Italy influence the rise of Roman power?
•
How did the Roman Republic
expand its territory to include the entire Mediterranean region?
• How was the Roman Republic transformed
into
an empire? .
• What features of Roman society and
culture
helped the Romans build and maintain their empire?
•
Why did Christianity take root in Judea?
•
What problems led to the decline and fall
of the Roman Empire in the west?
Essay
Questions ( give specific examples to support your statements )
1.
Describe and
explain how the geography of
Italy influence the rise of Roman power? Explain the early influences
on Roman
culture, government, and society?
2.
Describe and
explain the change from Rome
as a republic, to Rome as an empire. How did the Pax Romana and Roman
culture
add to the expansion of the Roman empire?
3.
Describe and explain the decline and fall
of the Roman empire. What was left to the western world of the heritage
of the
Roman empire?