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101 Cards in this Set
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The part of a Roman theater that is the scenery |
Scaena |
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The stage of a Roman theater |
Pulpitum |
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The dancing area for choruses in a Roman theater |
Orchestra |
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The exit of a Roman theater |
Vomitorium |
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Full oval theater in which gladiatorial combats were held |
Amphitheater |
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The Romans signature war formation |
Turtle or Testudo |
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The name for the kind of Roman drama which represented historical themes |
Fabula Praetexta |
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True or False There is good evidence that gladiators often said "Those who are about to die salute you" |
False |
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The kind of gladiator who fights with a trident and a net |
Retiarius |
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The thumbs down gesture the crowd made to indicate that the defeated gladiator is to be killed |
Pollice Verso |
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The gesture that indicates the defeated gladiator should be spared |
Pollice Presso |
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Roman politician that led a Roman army against the city of Rome and created a program of legislation to strengthen the Senate |
Sulla |
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The word for the "way of the ancestors" |
Mos Maiorum |
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I published "proscription" lists containing the names of citizens who may be legally killed and whose property may be stolen |
Sulla |
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i began as second-in-command to Metellus in Jugurthine war; married the aunt of Julius Caesar, and competed with Sulla for the command |
Marius |
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I lead the senate,as Pontifex Maximus, in beating Tiberius Gracchus to death |
Scipio Nasica |
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The Battle where Scipio Africanus finally defeats Hannibal in North Africa in 202 BC, bringing the Second Punic War to an end |
The Battle of Zama |
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General who wishes to refrain from engaging hannibal at Cannae (I die fighting) |
Lucius Aemilius Paullus |
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Apointed dictator after the disaster at Trasimene. My name literally means "delayer" |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator |
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The "Ice Man" discovered in melting glacier from thouands of years ago |
Oetzi |
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The city that became the arch-enemy of Rome during their third and second centuries BC |
Phoenicians |
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Dido was married to a phoenician man named _________, until her scheming brother pygmalion secretly murdered her husband |
Sychaeus |
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One of the Poenicians' most important contributions to the early history of Rome |
Alphabet |
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The language that phoenicians spoke, related to Hebrew and Babylonian |
Semitic |
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One of the earliest examples of the Greek alphabet anywhere in the world |
Cup of Nestor |
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The Greek word for such a colony |
Apoikia |
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The word for a "nest egg" slave that was born into slavery |
Peculium |
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When a freed slave became a freedman he was a given a pilleus libertais which is a special kind of what? |
Cap |
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Some accounts of the Etruscans' origins claim that they arose from the native people of Etruria who are reffered to as the ______________ |
Villanovans |
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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. |
True |
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We are the politicians who seek the support and approval of common people by promoting land distribution, extension of citizenship and other things |
populares |
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Centurions are often depicted carrying this implement |
A vine wood staff |
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I leave my ox and plough to fight the Aequi then return to take up farming when battle is won. |
Cincinnatus |
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Large plantation farms worked by slaves |
Latifundia |
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A means of teeling the futures strongly associated with the Etruscans - examination of sacrificed animals internal organs |
Haruspex |
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Romulus borrows symbols of power from the Etruscans and one is having a group of ______ escort the king |
lictors |
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The figures who accompany the king and later magistrates carry the symbol. (barrel of cords with ax on the front) |
Fasces |
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Sign of royal power Romulus said to have borrowed from the Etruscans that is a special kind of throne |
Sella curulis |
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A band of old men that advised the king |
Senate |
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The people the Romans invited for festival and then would kidnap their women |
Sabines |
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According to some accounts, Romulus is "taken up" and becomes the god ___________ |
Quirinus |
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The Sabine king the Romans invite from Cures; a king of religion |
Numa Pompilius |
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The warlike king that succeeded Numa |
Tullus Hostilius |
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The set of triplets that do single combat with a group of Alban champions called the Curiatii |
Horatii |
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The name of the protective spirit of the father of a househould |
Genius |
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The custom that demanded starting over from the beginning when mistakes were made during rituals |
instauratio |
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Livy attributes the draining of the Forum and the building of the Temple of Jupiter optimus to this king |
Tarquinius |
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The possible son of a slave who is designated by a flaming head as the next likely candidate for king |
Servius Tullius |
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Servius Tullius's daughter murders him by... |
running him over with her chariot |
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Sextus Tarquinius gets the kings expelled from Rome when he does what? |
Rapes a woman named Lucretia |
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What does Brutus do to his sons after they become involved in a conspiracry |
has them whipped and beheaded |
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What is it called when the plebeians retreat from the city of Rome and go on an ancient version of a labor strike |
Secession of the plebs |
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A sacrosanct official who has the power to veto, power to grant help to plebeians in trouble, and power to intercede |
Tribune of the Plebs |
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Roman historian who records the story of the seven kings in a history called Ab Urbe Condita |
Livy |
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The series of offices through which one went to climb the ranks in Rome |
Cursus Honorum |
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Magistracies which did not confer imperium on their holder were electedin the ___________. |
Comitia Tributa |
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Magistracies which did confer imperium on their holder were elected in the ___________. |
Comitia Centuriata |
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The position in politics with accounting and financing acquired after military service |
Quaestor |
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The position often ran for after serving as quaestor which gave one supervision of roads temples and festivals. |
Aedile |
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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. |
Praetor |
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The name for a toga that was bleached when someone was running for office |
Toga Candida |
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The highest ordinary migistracy |
Consul |
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Assembly that consisted of 35 tribes |
Comitia Tributa |
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Only plebeians could vote in this assembly; it elected tribunes; its resolutions were called "plebiscites" |
Concilium Plebis |
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The spear carried by a roman soldier which bent or broke at the end |
Pilum |
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The largest unit of the Roman army. Originally only two, one for each consul |
Legion |
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Initially the main tactical unit of the Roman army was a unit of 2 centuries called a ____________. |
Maniple |
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Later, the main unit came to be the______________ of six centuries. |
Cohort |
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The general of a Roman army |
dux |
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The highest rank attained by soldiers coming up through the ranks |
Centurion |
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Once the Romans had conquered you , they could give cities citizenship or make cities a municipium without the right to vote, or ___________. |
Municipia sing suffragio |
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The right to marry romans |
Conubium |
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The right to become a roman |
ius migrationis |
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A good road in Rome idfk |
Via Appia |
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When somebody vows himself to the gods as an offering in return for victory |
Devotio |
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A Hellenistic monarch invited by Greek to put the Romans in their place. |
Pyrrhus |
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Greek for "into the middle of things" |
In medias res |
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What does Pyrrhus die of? |
Roof tile |
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Hiero II, the Mamertines of Messana call on the Romans and who (at the same time) for aid? |
Carthaginians |
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To compensate for their ineptitude fighting at sea, the Romans invent the ________ to balance things out. |
Corvus |
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The mother of the Gracchi and daughter of Scipio, I refer to my sons as "jewels" |
Cornelia |
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Pyrrhus of Epirus brings this war animal to Italy before Hannibal does |
war elephants |
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these animals scared juno which warn the defenders of the capitoline of a sneak attack and save the day |
geese |
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Before beginning a naval battle, it was customary to take the auspices using this animal |
sacred chickens |
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What rank are soldiers with horizontal mohawks on their helmets in a roman army? |
Centurion |
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What kind of priest wears a special hat with stick coming out of it? |
Flamines |
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The greeks stereotyped these people as lustful, hard-drinking libertines, mostly because they accord their women higher public status |
Etruscans |
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Raised his own army when the senate refuses to vote him legions for the war. |
Scipio Aemilianus |
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Nephew of king Micipsa of Numidia; wages war on cousins; executed in Marius' triumph |
Jugurtha |
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Roman version of Hermes (messenger of gods) sent by jupiter to visit aenas and tell him to obey his destiny and ditch dido |
Mercury |
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One of the most characteristic features of the italian-estruscan temple |
porch |
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The kind of Roman comedy written by Plautus and Terence. |
Fabula palliata |
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Hooker with a heart of gold |
Philia |
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The greek mathematician said to have invented a laser mirror weapon for zapping ships |
Archimedes |
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Antiebellum |
Before war |
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Post Bellum |
after war |
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Cursus Honorum |
steps to take to become royalty |
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Cap of freedom slaves wear after freed |
pilleus libertatis |
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Freed slave |
libertus |
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Born slave |
Verna |
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Grain distribution; kept power with bread and circus; social security |
Anona = |