Rome Study Guide
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You should be able to answer the following questions completely and in detail. You may need additional space.
1. You should be able to identify the following locations on a map of the Mediterranean region: Rome,
Alps Mountains, Apennine Mountains, Sicily, Carthage, Judea, Alexandria, and Constantinople.
2. How was geographic location important to the economic, social, and political development of ancient
Rome?
3. Describe the religion of the Roman Republic; and what was the source of Roman mythology?
4. What impact did Roman mythology have on later civilizations?
5. How did the government of the Roman Republic become more democratic in its decision making?
6. Describe the structure of the government in the Roman Republic.
7. What happened in the Punic Wars; and how was Rome able to overcome Carthage?
8. What were the consequences of the Punic wars?
9. Why was Julius Caesar able to overcome the democratic system of the Roman Republic to be named
dictator for life?
10. How did Rome’s military conquests alter economic and social life in Rome?
11. How did an imperial monarchy come to rule Rome?
12. What was the Pax Romana?
13. What was the impact of the Pax Romana on the Roman Empire?
14. How did Christianity become established within the Roman Empire?
15. What were the essential beliefs of the early Christian faith?
16. How and why did Christianity spread?
17. What was the impact of the early Church in the late Roman Empire?
18. What were the achievements of the Romans and how did they influence Western civilization?
19. Why did the Western Roman Empire decline?
20. How was the Roman Empire divided?