Chapter 33-34 Group Project Questions

Chapter 33-34 Review

Chapter 33 Questions

Answer the following questions in complete sentences!

1. What is a republic?

2. Who were the patricians?

3. Who were the plebeians?

4. How much of Rome’s population was plebeian? (percentage)

5. What was the Senate?

6. Who controlled the army?

7. What was the struggle between the plebeians and the patricians called?

8. What did the plebeians do to force the patricians to compromise?

9. Around 451 B.C.E., what major change took place?

10. In what year did the plebeians have the right to pass laws for all citizens?

11. How long did it take the plebeians to gain equality?

12. What did plebeians do repeatedly to gain their rights?

Chapter 34

1. What is the difference between a republic and an empire?

2. During the first expansion, what group of people destroyed the Roman army and looted the city?

3. When did Rome have control of the entire Italian peninsula?

4. What is the name given to Rome’s wars with Carthage?

5. What did Roman’s copy and improve to win the first Punic War?

6. Who was the leader of the Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War?

7. Who wanted the Third Punic War, and for what reason?

8. What famous slave led a revolt against the Roman Republic?

9. What leader took control by force and effectively ended the republic? In what year did this occur?

10. What did Julius Caesar do to please the people of Rome, especially the poor and unemployed?

11. Who is credited as being Rome’s first emperor?

12. What did Augustus promise to give back to the Romans? Did he come through on his promise?

13. What did Augustus encourage that would improve society?

14. Who was in charge of protecting the emperor?

15. What is the Pax Romana?