Early Western History Discussion
Question Description
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?
Concrete
Trajan’s Column
Tiberius Gracchus
The Rape of Lucretia
Juvenal
mare nostrum
The Aeneid
Pompeii
Tarquinus Superbus
Masada
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
plebeians
St Paul
The Capitoline Wolf
The battle of Actium
Marcus Aurelius
The Tetrarchy
Cato
The Punic Wars
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.
What was the pater familias? What role did this concept have in Roman society?
Describe life in the city of Rome. Would you have liked to have lived there?
What factors led to the decline of the Republic?
Why was the senate hostile to Caesar?
Describe the influence of The Greeks and Etruscans on Rome
Do you think Octavian earned his title of “Augustus’?
Why did the philosophy of stoicism become popular in the Roman world?
Describe the development of Christianity in the first century CE.
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