History quiz

Exercises on the Monarchy in Rome

question 1

It was during the period of the Monarchy that the city of Rome was constituted, later giving rise to the greatest Empire of Antiquity. About the origin myth of the city of Rome is correct state that:

  1. It was founded by Cicero and Titus Flavius, orphans suckled by a goat.
  2. It was founded by brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracco, raised by a wolf.
  3. It was founded by Romulus and Remus, abandoned on the Tiber River and suckled by a she-wolf.
  4. It was founded by Caesar and Octavius ​​Augustus, after the military victories in Gaul.
question 2

During the period of the Monarchy, the first in the history of Rome, the social division was between three strata of the population. About this period, answer:

  1. What were the three social strata?
  2. Who were the customers?
question 3

Rome was influenced in its formation by a variety of peoples who inhabited the Italian Peninsula. Among the alternatives that follow, which of the peoples listed below did not influence the formation of Rome.

  1. Etruscans.
  2. Greeks.
  3. Sabins.
  4. Persians.
  5. Latinos.
question 4

About the period of the Monarchy in Rome, analyze the statements below.

04- The Sabines were people who lived in the Latium Plain, whose contribution to the formation of Rome was represented in the legend of the “abduction of the Sabines”.

08 – The Etruscans inhabited Etruria and influenced the development of Roman culture after they invaded the city and dominated it militarily and politically.

16 – It was during the Monarchy that the magistrates appeared, who began to administer the city.

32 – The Etruscan influence was felt in many ways, mainly in the urbanization of Rome, building its drainage canals and transforming the Forum into the center of the city.

Indicate the alternative that indicates the sum of the numbers that precede the correct statements.

  1. 20
  2. 12
  3. 44
  4. 48
  5. 24
answers Question 1

Letter C . Legend has it that Romulus and Remus, after being suckled by a wolf, were raised by a shepherd, later founding the city of Rome.

question 2
  1. The three strata were composed of:patricians, large landowners and holders of social and political privileges; commoners, free men, without political rights; and the slaves, people indebted or defeated in wars, considered as instruments of work.
  2. The clients were plebeians who provided services to the patricians, being still dependents or aggregates of them.
question 3

Letter D . The Persians did not inhabit the Italian Peninsula, being originally from the region where Iran is today.

question 4

Letter C . Statement 16 is wrong. Magistrates were positions created to administer the Republic, not the Monarchy.