Regarding the gods, the Romans cared more than the Greeks about

performing the correct rituals.

How did the Romans get their alphabet?

from the Etruscans, who got it from the Greeks

What does this building in Rome show about Roman architecture?

It was influenced by the Greeks.

How did Romans learn about Greek culture?

Greek colonists had settled near by.

After adapting the arch and the cuniculus, the Romans

became better engineers than the Etruscans.

Roman artists adapted the Greek art to create

more lifelike portraits and realistic busts and statues.

Why do historians use the term "Greco-Roman art"?

Roman art shows a strong influence from Greece

The Romans used the Greek arch to

build aqueducts, bridges, and stadiums.

The three cultures shown on the map are located mostly

on the southwest part of the Italian peninsula

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TCI Lesson 32 Geography & Early Development of Rome

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1
What does the chart below show about Greek and Roman gods?
They had different names.
They had different personalities.
They had the same worshippers.
They had the same rituals.
2
Regarding the gods, the Romans cared more than the Greeks about
performing the correct rituals.
honoring them with flowers.
seeing plays about them.
telling their stories.
3
How did the Romans get their alphabet?
directly from the Etruscans, who invented it
directly from the Greeks, who invented it
from the Etruscans, who got it from the Greeks
from the Greeks, who got it from the Etruscans
4
The Greeks carved their writing on plaques, and the Romans displayed their writing on
walls and columns
billboard signs
papyrus
regular paper
5
Which dangerous sport did the Romans adapt from the Etruscans?
long jumping
pole throwing
chariot racing
bear wrestling
6
In Rome, slaves who became gladiators were required to fight to
the death to amuse an audience
protect the city
train war horses
establish colonies
7
What does this building in Rome show about Roman architecture?
Women worked to construct it.
It was influenced by the Greeks.
It used keystones for support.
Etruscan styles influenced it.
8
How did Romans learn about Greek culture?
The Romans moved to Greece.
Greek leaders met with Roman leaders.
The Romans sold slaves to Greece.
Greek colonists had settled near by.
9
After adapting the arch and the cuniculus, the Romans
sold the Etruscans more advanced versions.
became better engineers than the Etruscans.
took a majority of the Etruscan's customers.
illegally copied the Etruscans' inventions.
10
What tourist sights in Rome show Etruscan influence?
fields of bright flowers
large public courtyards
windmills to water crops
buildings with arches
11
Unlike our writing today, both Greek and Roman writing
was rarely seen in public
served to record laws
represented words with pictures
used only capital letters
12
According to history, who first lived in the area that would become Rome?
Etruscans
Greeks
Macedonians
Latins
13
What mountain range separates Italy from the rest of Europe?
Rocky Mts.
Ural Mts.
Apennine Mts.
Alps Mts.
14
What is something called when it takes on features of both Greece and Rome?
Greco-Roman
Reeko
Roman-Greco
Greman
15
Roman artists adapted the Greek art to create
more lifelike portraits and realistic busts and statues.
painted black figures on red clay.
large clay vessels for storing food, water, and wine.
16
Why do historians use the term "Greco-Roman art"?
Scholars cannot tell whether a work is Greek or Roman
Greeks admired Roman styles and tried to imitate them
Roman art shows a strong influence from Greece
The same artists worked in both Greece and Rome
17
The Romans used the Greek arch to
build aqueducts, bridges, and stadiums.
illegally copy the Etruscans' invention.
sell the Etruscans more advanced versions of the arch.
take a majority of the Etruscan's customers.
18
What landscape would an early visitor to Rome have seen?
a mountainous island
a plain by the sea
a lake surrounded by hills
a hill beside a river
19
What was one reason why the Etruscans might build a cuniculus?
to farm on steep hillsides
to carry water to their cities
to entertain the people
to conquer neighboring tribes
20
The three cultures shown on the map are located mostly
on the southwest part of the Italian peninsula
in the middle of the Italian peninsula
only on the nothern part of the Italian peninsula
on the eastern part of the Italian peninsula
21
Who were Romulus and Remus?
colonists from Ancient Greece
the mythical founders of Rome
explorers on a famous river
opposing generals in a war

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