Unit+1+Ancient+Rome+online+exercises


 * (Timeline taken from Wikipedia)**

Answer the following questions: (the websites below may help you or just use your search engine to find the answers)

http://rome.mrdonn.org/index.html http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome.php (For the following websites, put the word you are looking for in their search box) http://history.howstuffworks.com/ancient-rome http://ancienthistory.about.com/

__True or false:__

> __Choose the correct answer__
 * 1) **//Rome was a kingdom for longer than it was a republic.//**
 * 2) **//The Romans Empire lasted for 1200 years before it split into 2.//**
 * 3) **//The Romans copied the Greeks' ways of making statues and sculptures.//**
 * 4) **//Many Roman roads led to Rome because it was the centre of the Empire, whilst Greeks were not particularly united so their roads were not so organised.//**
 * 5) **//Both Greek and Roman women were usually considered to be inferior to men and they had to obey their fathers or husbands.//**
 * 6) **//In the Roman Empire lots of women had jobs that they were paid to do.//**
 * 7) **//A plebeian was a rich person from a noble family.//**
 * 8) **//Roman women were regarded as citizens.//**
 * 9) **//Plebeians and Patricians could marry from the start of the Roman Republic.//**
 * 10) **//Only people born in Rome could become emperors.//**

A. The **Twelve Tables** of laws was written down and displayed for all of the following reasons __except__:
 * 1) Everyone could see them.
 * 2) The aristocrats could not make up laws that didn't exist.
 * 3) The poor people could veto laws they didn't like.
 * 4) The poor were more protected against the rich.

B. In the **Republic** the **Consuls** had the power to:
 * 1) lead the army, act as judges and change religious practices or holidays.
 * 2) act as judges, lead the army and veto each other's decisions.
 * 3) change the laws, lead the army and declare war or peace.
 * 4) choose the Senators, lead the army and renew their consulship whenever they wanted.

C. The **Punic Wars** were fought:
 * 1) against the Phoenicians who lived in Carthage in Sicily
 * 2) against the Phoenicians who were rich and powerful merchants from Asia
 * 3) against the Phoenicians who lived in North Africa and parts of Europe
 * 4) against the Carthaginians who had a powerful empire

D. In the Empire the **provinces** provided:
 * 1) manpower, food and taxes
 * 2) manpower, resources and roads
 * 3) food, taxes and soldiers
 * 4) food, resources and roads

> Read the description of why the Republic failed in the above link. What were the main problems of the time and how do they compare with what happens today in Colombia?
 * The Republic Fails**
 * 1) http://rome.mrdonn.org/republicfails.html
 * 1) What event marked the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire? What did Julius Caesar do? How does it compare to a similar event in Colombia's history in the 1950's?


 * Emperors of the Roman Empire**

Match the Emperors to what they were famous for:


 * = Valens || going mad ||
 * = Nero || splitting the Empire in two ||
 * = Trajan || converting to Christianity ||
 * = Constantine || being the first Roman Emperor ||
 * = Augustus || being the Emperor of an Empire that had no money ||
 * = Diocletian || being the first foreign emperor ||

__Choose the correct answer__


 * During the Pax Romana:**
 * 1) everyone lived in peace in the Empire
 * 2) there were a lot of problems and violence in the Empire
 * 3) the Empire got richer
 * 4) culture, literature and engineering projects flourished


 * Two Roman Empires**
 * 1) What were the two main reason Diocletian decided to split the Roman Empire in two? (at the end of the 3rd century)


 * Barbarians Attack Rome**

Barbarians were (choose all that apply):
 * 1) anyone who didn't speak Latin including the tribes of the Visigoths and the Huns.
 * 2) the Huns, Franks, Vandals, Saxons, and Visigoths.
 * 3) anyone who didn't have Roman citizenship including the Franks and the Saxons
 * 4) anyone who lived outside the Empire and/or didn't speak Latin
 * 5) anyone who attacked or criticised the Empire

> Copy the list of 10 headings for the major reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire (include Christianity which doesn't have a separate heading). Rearrange the list into an order of what you were think were the most important to the least important reasons for the fall of Rome. The most important reason should be at the top.
 * Rome Falls**
 * 1) http://www.rome.info/history/empire/fall/
 * 1) When people say the Roman Empire fell in 476, what does that really mean? What happened with the Eastern Roman Empire (//Byzantine Empire//)?


 * Legacy of the Roman Empire**