Ancient Rome 10.2 Test Review

A commoner was also known as a ______.

When the Etruscan monarchy was overthrown, the new Roman leaders set up a form of government called a _______.

The senate decreed the laws and consisted of ____ members from prominant families.

As Rome expanded its power, riches flooded into the country, and a great gap grew between the rich and the poor.

____ _____ means Roman Peace.

Historians agree that Rome began as a small collection of towns along the banks of the _____ _____ in the center of the Italian Peninsula.

The Aeneid was written by the Roman poet ______.

According to legend, two of Aeneas’s descendants, the twins Romulus and Remus, were abandoned at birth and rescued and raised by a she-wolf.

The ancient Romans greatly admired the ancient Greeks.

The _____ tells the story of the founding of Rome.

A forum was a place for the public to gather to hear speeches, shop, worship at temples, and mingle with friends.

The Etruscans lived in the fertile hills of ______.

Rome was not a democracy as we know it today, however, because not all of the people were allowed to participate fully in the new government.

Roman society consisted of _____ social classes.

The ________, whose name came from the Latin word for “fathers,” were the nobles of Rome.