CLST 103 TEST #1 Questions rated A+
2025
7 Hills of Rome - correct answer ✔Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline,
Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal
753 BC - correct answer ✔Founding of Rome
509BC - correct answer ✔Roman Republic established, end of monarchy
urbs (L) - correct answer ✔Roma (city)
Monte Testaccio - correct answer ✔Artificial hill in Rome comprised of the
remains of an estimated 53 million olive oil amphorae
Latium - correct answer ✔A plain on the west coast of Italy on which the city
of Rome was built, inhabited by indigenous people
390 BC - correct answer ✔Sack of Rome by the Gauls
264-241 BC - correct answer ✔First Punic War
218-201 BC - correct answer ✔Second Punic War
83-31 BCE - correct answer ✔Fall of the Roman Republic (due to civil wars)
, 27 BCE - correct answer ✔The Roman Empire begins as Caesar Augustus
(Octavian) becomes the First Roman Emperor
117 CE - correct answer ✔Roman Empire reaches greatest extent
286 CE - correct answer ✔Roman Empire split, Emperor Diocletian divided it
into 2 parts
Annalists - correct answer ✔Historians, writers from the second Punic war to
Sulla
Porcius Cato - correct answer ✔The elder, first to write history in Latin
Aenaes - correct answer ✔He was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince
Anchises and the goddess Venus. He fled Sack of Troy with Penates
Penates - correct answer ✔Household deities commonly worshiped
throughout the Roman world, thought to protect the pantry and foodstuffs in
the home.
Aeneas - correct answer ✔according to legend, Aeneas carried his father
from the burning city of Troy and then searched for a new home for the
Trojans. Finally settled in Italy.
Alba Longa - correct answer ✔city founded by Ascanius, son of Aeneas
Numitor - correct answer ✔king of Alba Longa; grandfather of Romulus and
Remus
2025
7 Hills of Rome - correct answer ✔Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline,
Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal
753 BC - correct answer ✔Founding of Rome
509BC - correct answer ✔Roman Republic established, end of monarchy
urbs (L) - correct answer ✔Roma (city)
Monte Testaccio - correct answer ✔Artificial hill in Rome comprised of the
remains of an estimated 53 million olive oil amphorae
Latium - correct answer ✔A plain on the west coast of Italy on which the city
of Rome was built, inhabited by indigenous people
390 BC - correct answer ✔Sack of Rome by the Gauls
264-241 BC - correct answer ✔First Punic War
218-201 BC - correct answer ✔Second Punic War
83-31 BCE - correct answer ✔Fall of the Roman Republic (due to civil wars)
, 27 BCE - correct answer ✔The Roman Empire begins as Caesar Augustus
(Octavian) becomes the First Roman Emperor
117 CE - correct answer ✔Roman Empire reaches greatest extent
286 CE - correct answer ✔Roman Empire split, Emperor Diocletian divided it
into 2 parts
Annalists - correct answer ✔Historians, writers from the second Punic war to
Sulla
Porcius Cato - correct answer ✔The elder, first to write history in Latin
Aenaes - correct answer ✔He was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince
Anchises and the goddess Venus. He fled Sack of Troy with Penates
Penates - correct answer ✔Household deities commonly worshiped
throughout the Roman world, thought to protect the pantry and foodstuffs in
the home.
Aeneas - correct answer ✔according to legend, Aeneas carried his father
from the burning city of Troy and then searched for a new home for the
Trojans. Finally settled in Italy.
Alba Longa - correct answer ✔city founded by Ascanius, son of Aeneas
Numitor - correct answer ✔king of Alba Longa; grandfather of Romulus and
Remus
