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CLST 2102 Questions and Correct Answers
1. How did plains people differ politically from hill people? Ans:
The hill people were more tribal and had a less complex political
structure. The plains people were politically autonomous city-state
ruled by the citizens
2. What percentage of Italy south of the Po is plain? Ans: 7%
2. What made Aeneas appealing as one of the founders of the
Romans? Ans: Epic hero from Trojan war. Pietas: devotion to
family, gods, and country
2.Where did Aeneas come from? Ans: Troy
3. Who was the divine parent of Aenease? Ans: goddess Venus
4. What was his most important quality and what famous image
captured that? Ans: Divine mission and pietas, Vergil
5. What is the traditional date (year only) for the founding of
Rome? Ans: 753 BC
Who was his divine parent of Romulus and Remus? Ans: Mars
7. What threat did Romulus and Remus survive as infants, and
how did they survive it? Ans: Amulius ordered them exposed to
the Tiber River, Divine aid in the form of a shewolf
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8. How was the naming of Rome decided? Ans: Romulus named it
after himself
9. How did Remus die (both explanations)? Ans: Jumped over the
wall and killed by Romulus
10. Be ready to define the terms: Ans: Virtus: manly excellence
(strength, courage, discipline) Pietas: devotion to family, gods, and
country Dignitas: reputation for worth (honor or esteem)
auctoritas.: power that comes from respect
11. How did Romulus first attract people to his city? Ans:
Declared Rome an assylum
12. What did he do to ensure a permanent population? Ans:
Requested to acquire the daughters of neighboring towns, Rape of
the sabines
13. Who stopped the war that followed? Ans: The women
13. What happened to Romulus at the end of his life? Ans: He was
taken up to heaven and made a god
13. What aspect of early Rome that has emerged from archaeology
is reflected by the stories of Aeneas and the Latins and Romulus
and the Sabines? Ans: Women=civilization
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14. What was early Roman housing like and what is our visual
proof for that? Ans: People lived in thatched huts, Excavated
foundations and post holes
15. What in the archaeological record may underlie legends of the
founding of Ans: ...
16. How does the term "river city" relate to the development of
Rome? Ans: Rome became wealthy through river trade, Greater
wealth means greater population and communication with more
civilized places
17. Which river flows through Rome? Ans: Tiber River
18. What type of society seems to have developed in the 9th and
8th centuries? Ans: Strong family groups (gentes) centered around
important, warrior males
19. What is Tarpeia's story? Ans: Father was the guard of the
citadel at Rome, Often visited the public well outside the gates and
talked with the sabine soldiers,She offered to betray her city and
open the gate if they gave her all of their wrist ornaments,
Crushed by the soldiers' sheilds
20. For what is Numa Pompilius known? Ans: Established a
framework of Roman state religion, Established vestal virgins
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CLST 2102 Questions and Correct Answers
1. How did plains people differ politically from hill people? Ans:
The hill people were more tribal and had a less complex political
structure. The plains people were politically autonomous city-state
ruled by the citizens
2. What percentage of Italy south of the Po is plain? Ans: 7%
2. What made Aeneas appealing as one of the founders of the
Romans? Ans: Epic hero from Trojan war. Pietas: devotion to
family, gods, and country
2.Where did Aeneas come from? Ans: Troy
3. Who was the divine parent of Aenease? Ans: goddess Venus
4. What was his most important quality and what famous image
captured that? Ans: Divine mission and pietas, Vergil
5. What is the traditional date (year only) for the founding of
Rome? Ans: 753 BC
Who was his divine parent of Romulus and Remus? Ans: Mars
7. What threat did Romulus and Remus survive as infants, and
how did they survive it? Ans: Amulius ordered them exposed to
the Tiber River, Divine aid in the form of a shewolf
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8. How was the naming of Rome decided? Ans: Romulus named it
after himself
9. How did Remus die (both explanations)? Ans: Jumped over the
wall and killed by Romulus
10. Be ready to define the terms: Ans: Virtus: manly excellence
(strength, courage, discipline) Pietas: devotion to family, gods, and
country Dignitas: reputation for worth (honor or esteem)
auctoritas.: power that comes from respect
11. How did Romulus first attract people to his city? Ans:
Declared Rome an assylum
12. What did he do to ensure a permanent population? Ans:
Requested to acquire the daughters of neighboring towns, Rape of
the sabines
13. Who stopped the war that followed? Ans: The women
13. What happened to Romulus at the end of his life? Ans: He was
taken up to heaven and made a god
13. What aspect of early Rome that has emerged from archaeology
is reflected by the stories of Aeneas and the Latins and Romulus
and the Sabines? Ans: Women=civilization
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14. What was early Roman housing like and what is our visual
proof for that? Ans: People lived in thatched huts, Excavated
foundations and post holes
15. What in the archaeological record may underlie legends of the
founding of Ans: ...
16. How does the term "river city" relate to the development of
Rome? Ans: Rome became wealthy through river trade, Greater
wealth means greater population and communication with more
civilized places
17. Which river flows through Rome? Ans: Tiber River
18. What type of society seems to have developed in the 9th and
8th centuries? Ans: Strong family groups (gentes) centered around
important, warrior males
19. What is Tarpeia's story? Ans: Father was the guard of the
citadel at Rome, Often visited the public well outside the gates and
talked with the sabine soldiers,She offered to betray her city and
open the gate if they gave her all of their wrist ornaments,
Crushed by the soldiers' sheilds
20. For what is Numa Pompilius known? Ans: Established a
framework of Roman state religion, Established vestal virgins
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