What are the geographic characteristics of Italy/Rome?
What are the geographic characteristics of Italy/Rome? How did the geographic characteristics help Rome to develop?
What are the geographic characteristics of Italy/Rome?
How did the geographic characteristics help Rome to develop?
Who else lived on the Italian peninsula other than the Romans in the early era?
How did different Roman foundation stories/myths help to shape their culture? (i.e. revisit the Aeneid and Romulus and Remus stories)
How did the Greeks influence the foundation of Rome?
What is a republic? How was the roman republic organized? What sector of society made up the Roman senate?
Look at the sheet of terms/roles to help you with this question
Also reference the sheet with the chart of the Roman republic government to help you study
– How did Roman democracy compare to Athenian?
– How did the 12 tables reform government/legal code?
– What’s the difference between a republic and an empire?
– Why was gaining control of the Mediterranean area a difficult task at this time? (i.e. Who else existed there?)
How did Roman fighting style help them establish an empire? (see readings from wars with Carthage)
– What advantages did Roman military have over other armies? How did this help their empire grow?
– Why were conquered people open minded to have the Romans rule them (initially)?
– Why is a republic ill equipped to govern a large amount of land?
– How did the Senate fail to meet the people’s needs under the republic?
– How did the Gracchus brothers try to help the poor during the tense days of the republic? What needs did the people have?
– How did the senate respond to the Gracchus brothers? Why did the senate’s response to the Gracchus brothers spell doom for them?
– What conditions led to Caesar’s rise to power?
– How did people like Marius and Sulla set the stage for Caesar?
– Was Caesar a hero or a villain? (know the main arguments for each side) What were the implications of his actions on the Republic?
– What happened after Caesar was murdered?
– How did Octavian come to be the first true emperor of Rome (hint: what types of methods did he use to rise to power?)
– How was society well-governed during the Pax Romana? How did Augustus help stabilize society?
– Know the answers to the video worksheet completed for hw (from the Engineering an Empire video clips)
– What was Roman society sometimes called a Greco Roman society? How does the Pantheon illustrate this concept?
– Why was Rome sometimes an unpleasant place to live?
– How did the Roman government deal with these problems?
– Why is Marcus Aurelius a unique emperor?
– What does cosmopolitan mean? Why is Pompeii a famous city? How does Pompeii illustrate the pos/neg sides of living in a city? How did the people in Pompeii explain the destruction happening around them?
– Be able to recognize the areas conquered by the Roman empire.
– Who was the founder of Christianity and where did the religion originate from?
– How was/is Christianity similar to/different from Judiasm?
– What are the basic values of Christianity?
– How did Christianity start to gain followers? Why were people attracted to this religion?
– What was Roman religion like before Christianity and what was Roman policy towards other religions?
– Why did Christianity threaten Roman government? How did they treat the Christians?
– How did slavery function in the Roman empire?
– How were slaves treated?
– How did Romans respond to uprisings: – case study: Spartacus rebellion
– How did Diocletian and Constantine both rise to power (but remember this doesn’t happen at the same time in history. Constantine is after Diocletian)
– What reforms did Diocletian and Constantine make while acting as emperor? Impact of these reforms?
– What are the political, economic, social, and military reasons credited to causing the fall of Rome? Which cause was the main factor to the downfall?
