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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE
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Question 1: 264 B.C.E. to 146 B.C.E
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Second Period of Expansion Question 2: What happened when a band of Gauls invaded Rome in 390 B.C.E. during the First Period of Expansion?
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The Gauls burned down most of Rome.
Question 3: Who was Hannibal and what did he accomplish in the Second Punic War
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a Carthaginian general who attacked Rome from the Alps.Question 4: slave who led a famous revolt in 73 B.C.E. After crushing his army and killing him in battle, the Romans put thousands of the surviving rebels to death on crosses.
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Spartacus
Question 5: The Third Punic War resulted in
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the destruction of Carthage.Question 6: How did Caesar Augustus provide for better defense of the Roman Empire
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He expanded its borders to natural boundaries like the Sahara.Question 7: What was one factor that contributed to the collapse of the Roman republic
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civil war between competing generals
Question 8: What happened as Rome expanded into an empire?
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Rome fought wars to defend its growing territory.
Question 9: What was the immediate result of Julius Caesar's assassination
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A series of civil wars took place.
Question 10: "Augustus" means
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honored
Question 11: Under Caesar Augustus, the Roman senate
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had no real authority
Question 12: Expansion of the Roman Empire spread outward from
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Italy
Question 13: Almost 200 years of constant warfare; the Romans drove the last Etruscan king out of power, and Rome became a republic.
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The First Period of Expansion Question 14: Rome came to rule the entire Mediterranean world. In the east, Rome took control of Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. In the west, the Roman general Julius Caesar conquered much of Gaul
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The Third Period of Expansion Question 15: a brilliant Carthaginian general who attacked Italy in the 2nd Punic War of the 2nd p.o.e. His army destroyed thousands of Roman farms.
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Hannibal
Question 16: What happened during the Pax Romana?
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Rome was mostly at peace for 200 years.
Question 17: ruler with absolute power
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dictator Question 18: At its height, around 117 C.E., the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to the
present-day:
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Middle East
Question 19: the Romans burned Carthage to the ground
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3rd Punic War of the 2nd p.o.e.
Question 20: TRUE OR FALSE: The growth of Rome from a republic to an empire took place over 500 years. The story has four major periods.
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TRUE
Question 21: war between groups in the same country
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civil war Question 22: By the time the first period of Roman expansion ended in 264 B.C.E., Rome and its allies controlled
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Italian Peninsula
Question 23: Carthage was located in
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Africa
Question 24: The issue that drew Rome into the First Punic War was
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trading rights in the Mediterranean.Question 25: Rome's wars with Carthage for control of the Mediterranean during the 2nd p.o.e.
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Punic Wars Question 26: The first emperor of the Roman Empire who encouraged education, art, and literature
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Caesar Augustus.
Question 27: 145 to 44 B.C.E
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Third Period of Expansion