CLST 103 TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Traditional Founding of Rome - answer 753 BCE
Monarchy period - answer 753-509 BCE
Republic Period - answer 509-27 BCE
Empire Foundation - answer 27 BCE
End of empire in the west - answer 476 CE
End of empire in the east - answer 1453 CE
Benefits of Roma location - answer -Location along the river Tiber
-Good soil
-Access to sea
-Natural barrier (7 hills)
-Lots of water springs
Marshes in Rome - answer -Concentration of population on the hills
-Forum Boarium: Marshes were drained
-Development of hydraulic engineering by romans
7 Hills of Rome - answer Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine (Romulus
fortified this hill), Quirinal, Viminal
Monte Testaccio - answer an artificial mound in rome composed completely of broken
pots
Literary sources - answer -1st accounts of Roman History 3-2 BCE
-Oral tradition, religious hymns, folklore
-Ceremonies honoring the deceased recounted episodes of their lives, retold again and
again to bring honor to the bloodline
-Romans loved their own history
-MAIORES: they esteemed tradition and value of ancestors
,The Aeneid by Vergil - answer -Poem that tells story of Aeneas in trojan war and
foundation or rome
Titus Livius (Livy) - answer Historian who documented the foundation of Rome
Aeneas - answer -Trojan Warrior
-Son of Venus and Anchises
-Fled Troy with Penates
-Married Lavinia
-Founded city Lavinium to honor Lavinia
-Worshiped as heroic founder as Jupiter Indiges (Native Jupiter or Local Jupiter)
Penates - answer Household Gods
Creusa - answer Wife of Aeneas
Ascanius (Lulus) - answer Son of Aeneas and Creusa
Evander - answer -Greek Hero who settled at future rome
Latinus - answer -Local king, father of Lavinia
Lavinia - answer -Betrothed to Turnus
Turnus - answer King of the Rutulians
Lavinium: Heroon - answer -Hero shrine of Aeneas
Tomb of Aeneas
Castor and Pollux - answer Part of Penates (household gods) brought to italy and rome
Alba Longa - answer city founded by Ascanius (lulus)
-Livy placed Alba Longa at the foot of Alban Mount
Numitor - answer -12th King of Alba Longa
Amulius - answer Brother of Numitor, took the throne following Numitor's death
Rhea Silvia - answer Daughter of Numitor
-Mother of Romulus and Remus
, Faustulus - answer Shepherd who found Romulus and Remus
How Rome developed - answer -Synoecism: City developed through the coming
together of several villages around the one on the Palatine (AKA Septimontium)
The Etruscan Monarchy - answer -End of the 7th-Late 6th Century BCE
-Kings from Etruria reign in Rome: Tarquinius, Priscus, Servius Tullius, and Tarquinius
Superbus
-Urbanistic flourishing occured (Temples)
Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus - answer AKA Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
-Jupiter "Best and Greatest"
Sanctuary of St. Omobono - answer 2 republican era temples of Fortuna and Mater
Matuta (Aurora)
Tragedy of Lucretia - answer -Noblewoman assaulted by the son of last king of rome,
Tarquinius Superbus
-Tarquinii (Dynasty) expelled from Rome
-Prominent Roman families instituted the republic
Roman Republic Timeframe - answer -Early Republic (508-287 BCE
-Middle (287-133 BCE)
Late Republic (133-31 BCE)
consulship - answer -Replaced Kingship
-2 magistrates with equal imperium (Supreme power)
-Elected by adult male citizens in the Comitia Centuriata (popular assembly)
-Consuls nominated by the senate
-Held office for 1 year
-Each consul had power of veto over the other's decisions
-Consuls could be called to account for their action
CORRECT ANSWERS
Traditional Founding of Rome - answer 753 BCE
Monarchy period - answer 753-509 BCE
Republic Period - answer 509-27 BCE
Empire Foundation - answer 27 BCE
End of empire in the west - answer 476 CE
End of empire in the east - answer 1453 CE
Benefits of Roma location - answer -Location along the river Tiber
-Good soil
-Access to sea
-Natural barrier (7 hills)
-Lots of water springs
Marshes in Rome - answer -Concentration of population on the hills
-Forum Boarium: Marshes were drained
-Development of hydraulic engineering by romans
7 Hills of Rome - answer Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine (Romulus
fortified this hill), Quirinal, Viminal
Monte Testaccio - answer an artificial mound in rome composed completely of broken
pots
Literary sources - answer -1st accounts of Roman History 3-2 BCE
-Oral tradition, religious hymns, folklore
-Ceremonies honoring the deceased recounted episodes of their lives, retold again and
again to bring honor to the bloodline
-Romans loved their own history
-MAIORES: they esteemed tradition and value of ancestors
,The Aeneid by Vergil - answer -Poem that tells story of Aeneas in trojan war and
foundation or rome
Titus Livius (Livy) - answer Historian who documented the foundation of Rome
Aeneas - answer -Trojan Warrior
-Son of Venus and Anchises
-Fled Troy with Penates
-Married Lavinia
-Founded city Lavinium to honor Lavinia
-Worshiped as heroic founder as Jupiter Indiges (Native Jupiter or Local Jupiter)
Penates - answer Household Gods
Creusa - answer Wife of Aeneas
Ascanius (Lulus) - answer Son of Aeneas and Creusa
Evander - answer -Greek Hero who settled at future rome
Latinus - answer -Local king, father of Lavinia
Lavinia - answer -Betrothed to Turnus
Turnus - answer King of the Rutulians
Lavinium: Heroon - answer -Hero shrine of Aeneas
Tomb of Aeneas
Castor and Pollux - answer Part of Penates (household gods) brought to italy and rome
Alba Longa - answer city founded by Ascanius (lulus)
-Livy placed Alba Longa at the foot of Alban Mount
Numitor - answer -12th King of Alba Longa
Amulius - answer Brother of Numitor, took the throne following Numitor's death
Rhea Silvia - answer Daughter of Numitor
-Mother of Romulus and Remus
, Faustulus - answer Shepherd who found Romulus and Remus
How Rome developed - answer -Synoecism: City developed through the coming
together of several villages around the one on the Palatine (AKA Septimontium)
The Etruscan Monarchy - answer -End of the 7th-Late 6th Century BCE
-Kings from Etruria reign in Rome: Tarquinius, Priscus, Servius Tullius, and Tarquinius
Superbus
-Urbanistic flourishing occured (Temples)
Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus - answer AKA Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
-Jupiter "Best and Greatest"
Sanctuary of St. Omobono - answer 2 republican era temples of Fortuna and Mater
Matuta (Aurora)
Tragedy of Lucretia - answer -Noblewoman assaulted by the son of last king of rome,
Tarquinius Superbus
-Tarquinii (Dynasty) expelled from Rome
-Prominent Roman families instituted the republic
Roman Republic Timeframe - answer -Early Republic (508-287 BCE
-Middle (287-133 BCE)
Late Republic (133-31 BCE)
consulship - answer -Replaced Kingship
-2 magistrates with equal imperium (Supreme power)
-Elected by adult male citizens in the Comitia Centuriata (popular assembly)
-Consuls nominated by the senate
-Held office for 1 year
-Each consul had power of veto over the other's decisions
-Consuls could be called to account for their action
