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Rome Empire Questions

1. What there the events that led the people of Rome to change from
monarchy to republic?

He was a very good man but their victories and their constructions have not
been disguised. Tired of his ruthless arbitrariness, the people sought a way to
get rid of their tyranny. The trigger for his fall was the death of young Lucrecia.
This woman has been forced by a son of Tarquinio, and has committed suicide
in the future. The citizens, angered to learn of the success, decided to expel
the king and all his family.

2. Why did the romans changed the republic government and


transformed into empire?

Rome changes from republic to empire because the most popular man of the
nation died (Juilo Cesar ) beacause the legislators decided to kill him.

3. Fill in the chart about the main inventors of the romans

MATH ARTS PHYLOSOPHY ENGINCERING


calendar Newspaper laws roads
roman # codex books Air conditioning
Building Postal service Julian calendar First surgical
materials tools

4. What was the roman right and what is it’s influenced in today’s law?

 Roman law is broadly divided into public law and private law,
as is contemporary law. Also, branches of current law, such as
criminal law, tax law or administrative law, existed in Ancient
Rome.

 1. RIGHTS OF WOMEN
 2. PRICE CONTROL
 3. SOCIAL POLICIES
 4. CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW
 5. OBLIGATIONS, CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY
 6. DEFENSE TO THE CONSUMER
 7. ABUSE AND VIOLATION
 8. OBEDIENCE DUE

5. Make a timeline with the most important roman leaders

6. What influence had the Hellenic culture in the Roman Empire?


• The Roman religion, which in its beginnings was native, began in the third century
BC. to identify Roman gods with Greek gods and to surround them with the myths
and forms that the Greeks had given them.
• Roman art, although with great technical innovations, assimilated the aesthetic
ideals of Greek artists.
• Literature, philosophy, ... Latin followed with great frequency the models
elaborated by the Greek world.
• For educated Romans Greek culture was the model of superior culture, so they
educated their children with Greek teachers, who taught them to read and write
that language.
• Despite Roman domination, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean did not
lose their cultural identity, but continued with it.

7. What were the Punic wars?


Punic Wars. They are a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage
in the years 264 to 146 a.n.e. At the same time, they were probably the greatest
wars that had taken place.
The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash of interests between the existing
Carthaginian empire and the expansion of the Roman Republic.

8. What was the relation between the Roman Empire and the Egyptian
empire?

In the year 30 arc. The future first emperor of Rome, Octavius (perhaps you know
him as Octavian, or Caesar Augustus, or even simply Augustus), entered with his
troops in Alexandria, thus ending two things: the Fourth Civil War of the Republic of
Rome, that had had its high point a year before with the naval battle of Accio, and
the independence of Egypt, which from that moment would become a province of
Rome for more than four centuries.
9. Make a timeline of the invasions that suffered Rome include the name
of the tribes that did it?

376 408 420 454 455 476 500 534 550 569

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dos os cos dos los os nes dios ones dos

10. What was the influence of the Christianism in the Roman Empire?

In the Roman Empire the belief of a single god was called "atheism", so the arrival
of Jesus, the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed, the son of God, with his teachings
and miracles were attracting more and more Roman followers , some called
disciples, which for obvious reasons began to generate divisions in the empire.

After the crucifixion of Jesus and the persecutions suffered by his disciples, they
began journeys through various places, taking them to Syria, Asia Minor, Greece,
Egypt, Libya, among others, where they were increasingly joined by more Romans.
So it is said, that this division of beliefs, between Christians and "others" was one
of the points that began the decline of the Roman Empire.

11. Who were the Barbadian? Why did they include Rome?

Bárbaro is an anonymous word that comes from the Greek and its literal translation
is "he who babbles". The ancient Greeks used the term to refer to foreigners, who
did not speak Greek and Latin and whose foreign language sounded to their ears
as an incompressible babble.

The barbarians, took advantage of the internal divisions, approached their borders
and settled in them, pressing permanently to enter. Although the Roman legions
contained all the attempts made, the barbarians managed to penetrate slowly
between the first and fourth centuries, and settle in the interior, until, finally, pushed
by other peoples, they did so violently.
12. What were the reasons of the Roman Empire decay?

It is said that the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire was due to:

• Constant differences between the Senate and the Emperor


• Loss of morale of the upper class including the emperor
• Political Corruption and the Praetorian Guard (escorts of the emperor)
• Rapid expansion of the Empire
• Constant wars and high military spending
• Decadent economy and high inflation (high taxes)
• Unemployment of the working class
• The rabble and the cost of gladiator games
• Slavery (pests, famines and earthquakes)
• Natural disasters
• Christianity
• Barbarian invasion

13. How were divided the territories after the Roman Empire?

Initially the Roman Empire was divided into two, the Western Empire with its main
headquarters in Rome and the Eastern Empire with its headquarters in Constantinople,
each with a different emperor.

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