Chapter 8 Review: The Rise of Rome

According to a traditional legend, who founded the city of Rome?

• Helen of Troy
• Romulus and Remus
• Aristotle and Plato
• Julius Caesar

Who could hold political office in early Rome?

• any citizen
• women
• only plebeians
• only patricians

What were the Twelve Tables?

• Rome's first written laws
• the tables in the Senate
• the seats in a courtroom
• the leaders in a government

What happened on March 15 in the year 44 B.C.?

• Caesar began a civil war.
• Caesar's enemies killed him.
• The Council of the Plebs met.
• All enslaved people were freed.

What title did Octavian take?

• Cicero
• Antony
• King
• Augustus

Which of the following helped Rome's trade?

• the Punic Wars
• Hannibal's invasion
• Hadrian's Wall
• Roman currency

Italy is 

• an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
• a peninsula shaped like a boot.
• a large country in Central Europe.
• part of Scandinavia. 

Italy is

• surrounded by the Andes mountains.

• a peninsula shaped like a boot.

• an island in the middle east.

• part of Scandinavia.

The First Punic War was

• a war between Rome and Greece.
• fought in the Alps.
• fought over control of Sicily.
• a war between Rome and China.

At the Battle of Actium, Antony and Cleopatra

• got married.

• defeated Octavian.

• killed themselves.

• were defeated by Octavian.