CLST 103 Test 1 (all correctly solved)

Traditional Founding of Rome correct answers 753 BCE Monarchy period correct answers 753-509 BCE Republic Period correct answers 509-27 BCE Empire Foundation correct answers 27 BCE End of empire in the west correct answers 476 CE End of empire in the east correct answers 1453 CE Benefits of Roma location correct answers -Location along the river Tiber -Good soil -Access to sea -Natural barrier (7 hills) -Lots of water springs Marshes in Rome correct answers -Concentration of population on the hills -Forum Boarium: Marshes were drained -Development of hydraulic engineering by romans 7 Hills of Rome correct answers Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine (Romulus fortified this hill), Quirinal, Viminal Monte Testaccio correct answers an artificial mound in rome composed completely of broken pots Literary sources correct answers -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 correct answers -Poem that tells story of Aeneas in trojan war and foundation or rome Titus Livius (Livy) correct answers Historian who documented the foundation of Rome Aeneas correct answers -Trojan Warrior -Son of Venus and Anchises -Fled Troy with Penates -Married Lavinia