History Early Rome Quiz

Freshman Chesterton 2025

The initial Roman tribe

Etruscans

The river Rome is on

Tiber River

The city at the mouth of the Tiber River

Ostia

Italy is more ______ and _______ than greece

fertile, productive

The Greeks called Rome this

Magnagracia

Rhea Silva was a ______________

Vestal Virgin

Rhea Silvia was their mother

Romulus and Remus

Romulus and Remus’s father

Mars

Romulus and Remus were reared by one of these

she-wolf

______________ killed _______________

Romulus, Remus

Romulus needed women, so he captured the women of this tribe

the Sabines

Rome first had one ________ as their ruler, but later had two _________

king, consuls

Also in Early Roman government was this council of tribal representatives

Commitia Curiata

the College of Pontifs was made up of these

priests

They were the early “senate” of Rome

Council of Elders

They are descended from the council of Elders

the Patricians

Tarquin I built this

Cloaca Maxima, or Great Sewer

Imperium

the ability to make any law, had by the consuls, that could only be vetoed by each other

The term length of a Roman dictator

6 months

Rome was split into these two groups

Patricians and Plebians

Some ways to become a citizen in Ancient Rome (at least 2)

born to citizen parents, freed slave, pay, army service, be in a conquered territory that eventually gets citizenship

Some Celtic tribes (at least 2)

Gauls, Britons, Picts, Gels, Galations, Celtibarians

After these wars, Rome controls all of Europe

Samnite

Non-Celtic areas of Europe

Scandinavia, Italy, Greece

Celtic Pagan Priests

Druids