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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
- Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History
- Livy’s History of Rome, Vol. 1
- Plutarch’s biography of Romulus
- The Beginnings of Rome by T.J. Cornell
- Richard Miles’s Carthage Must Be Destroyed is one of the best one-volume histories of the Carthaginian civilization.
Early Roman Republic – Quiz
- During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal, after winning many victories against Rome, was finally defeated in Africa at the Battle of _________.
- Identify at least two of the influences on the Romans of the civilization in Question #2.
- Identify how the motives for Roman expansion changed in the second century B.C.
- Identify one of the influences of the Greeks on Italy that were identified in the lecture.
- Identify the two social classes of early Roman society.
- The Struggle of the Orders ended in 287 B.C. with the promulgation of the _____________.
- The modern Italian region of Tuscany is named for an ancient people called the _________.
- What are Rome’s two founding myths?
- Zama
- Made Rome a true city, gave Rome the alphabet, toga, fasces, and the hoplite
- Conquests were made for economic gain rather than perceived security reasons.
- Cultivation of the olive and vine, alphabet, cultural model
- Patricians and plebeians
- Lex hortensia
- Etruscans
- Aeneas, Romulus and Remus