Identify the historical significance of Concrete

Section I

Directions: Be able to identify each of the people/objects/places/terms/events below. In a short answer, explain why are they significant and how they influenced Early Western History?

1. Identify the historical significance of Concrete

1. Identify the historical significance of Trajan’s Column

1. Identify the historical significance of

Tiberius Gracchus

1. Identify the historical significance of The Rape of Lucretia

1. Identify the historical significance of Juvenal

1. Identify the historical significance of mare nostrum

1. Identify the historical significance of The Aeneid

1. Identify the historical significance of Pompeii

1. Identify the historical significance of Tarquinus Superbus

1. Identify the historical significance of Masada

1. Identify the historical significance of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

1. Identify the historical significance of plebeians

1. Identify the historical significance of St Paul

1. Identify the historical significance of The Capitoline Wolf

1. Identify the historical significance of The battle of Actium

1. Identify the historical significance of Marcus Aurelius

1. Identify the historical significance of The Tetrarchy

1. Identify the historical significance of Cato

1. Identify the historical significance of The Punic Wars

1. Identify the historical significance of The Rubicon

Section II

Directions: Be prepared to answer the following questions. Answer the question completely and include some discussion of primary sources, where appropriate, to support your answer.

1. What was the pater familias? What role did this concept have in Roman society?
2. Describe life in the city of Rome. Would you have liked to have lived there?
3. What factors led to the decline of the Republic?
4. Why was the senate hostile to Caesar?
5. Describe the influence of The Greeks and Etruscans on Rome
6. Do you think Octavian earned his title of ‘Augustus’?
7. Why did the philosophy of stoicism become popular in the Roman world?
8. Describe the development of Christianity in the first century CE.