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CLA/HIS 2103 THE REPUBLIC FALL 2022

REVIEW SHEET FOR MID TERM#1
WHEN: Available to take from 12 pm Thursday Oct 20 until 12 pm Friday.
STUDY SESSION FOR MIDTERM ONE: Thursday Oct. 13th at 2:30. I will post a link
in the contents of the course site (top left).
16/10. Revisions to study sheet: I have removed the words, proscriptions and Dioscuri. I
have added a couple of terms in a couple of modules: they are highlighted (below) in
yellow.

1. WHAT TEST COVERS

Module #1 Introduction
Module #2: Sources
Module #3: Prehistory and Linguistic Profile of Italy
Module #4: Regal Period I: Late Iron Age Rome & Foundation Tradition
Module #5: Regal Period II: Orientalizing and Archaic Rome, End of Monarchy
Module #6: Origins of Etruscans
Module #7: Cursus Honorum
Module #8: From Kingship to Republic

2. FORMAT OF TEST: Short Answer: Multiple Choice and True and False Questions.
Mark is on 50 points (50 questions: 1 point each): You have 60 minutes to take the timed
test. I have not posted dates after terms and people because you will not be tested on
them in the test questions. Please note: I will be making up your midterm in the next
week, and may add or remove terms depending on the final content of the test.

TERMS & PEOPLE YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR MIDTERM #1

MODULE#1: INTRODUCTION
Res Publica
Oligarchy
Auctoritas Patrum
Popular sovereignty
Dionysius Exiguus
Easter Tables
Eponymous
(Venerable) Bede (of Northumbria)
Johannes Kepler
Magna Graecia
Tyrrhenian
Adriatic
Apennines
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Tiber
Stenochoria
Capitoline She Wolf
Divination
Augurs
Province
Manumission
Enfranchisement
Hegemony
Equestrians
Plebeians
Patricians
Novus Homo
Imperium
Empire
Commonwealth
patronage
Add
populares
optimares
Mediterranean

MODULE #2: SOURCES & HISTORIOGRAPHY

Historiography
Historicity
Didactic
Rhetorical
Rhetoric
Scholiasts
Epitome
Annalistic
Antiquarian
Annals
Fasti
Dies fas
Dies nefas
Pontiffs
Pontifex Maximus
Tabulae Albae
Annales Maximi
Livy
Oxyrhynchus Epitome
Periochae
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Polybius
Plutarch
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Varro
Sallust
Cicero
Pignus
Concordia Ordinum

MODULE #3: PREHISTORY & LINGUISTIC PROFILE OF ITALY

Calibrated
Pleistocene
Periodization
Lower (Early) Palaeolithic
Lithic
Acheulian
Notarchirico
Middle Palaeolithic
Mousterian
Neanderthal
Würm (Glaciation)
Uluzzian
Homo sapiens
Upper (Late) Palaeolithic
Aurignacian
Leptolithic
Mesolithic
Holocene
Neolithic
Obsidian
Steatopygous (figurines)
Apulian (Culture)
Chalcolithic
Bell Beakers, Bell Beaker People and Phenomenon
Bronze (Age)
Pile Dwelling (Cultures)
Polada (Culture)
Terramare (Culture)
Middens
Apennine (Culture)
Proto-Villanovan
Urnfield Culture
Cremation
Inhumation
Indo-Europeans
Iron Age
Villanovan
Biconical (Urn)
Latial (Culture)
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Hut (Urn)
Dolium
Tomba a Fossa (Culture)
Proto-urbanization
Nucleation
Synoikismos
Osco-Umbrian
Venetic Sicel
Latino-Faliscan
Messapic

MODULE #4 REGAL PERIOD: ROME IN THE LATE IRON AGE; FOUNDATION

TRADITION
Palatine (Hill)
Latial I
Forum Boarium
Proto-urbanization
Latial II
Latial III =Late Iron Age
Osteria dell' Ossa
Gens (gentes plural)
Aeneas
Trojans
Ascanius
oikist
Lavinium
Alba Longa
Anchises
Prophesy of the Sow and Piglets
Alban (Kings)
Numitor
Amulius Rhea
Silvia
Vestal Virgin
Pomerium
Pietas
She Wolf
Capitoline She Wolf
Sabine (Women)
Abduction of Sabine Women
Tarpeia
Romulus
Ficus Ruminalis
Fratricide
Consualia
Consus
Conubium
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Add:
Lupercalia
Lavinia
Creusa
Plutarch
Alban (Hills)

MODULE #5 REGAL PERIOD II ROME: ORIENTALIZING & ARCHAIC

Regal Period
Orientalizing
Tyrrhenian
Archaic
Gens (gentes plural)
Patres
Praenomen
Nomen genticulum
Cognomen
Urbanization in Rome
synoikismos
Forum Romanum
Regia
Domus Regis
Comitium
Curia Hostilia
Carcer
Lapis Niger
Boustrophedon
Lacus Curtius
Graecostasis
Temple of Jupiter Juno and Minerva
Capitoline Temple
Capitoline Triad
Sanctuary
Extramural emporium sanctuary
Pyrgi
Romulus
Numa Pompilius
Tullus Hostilius
Ancus Marcius
Tarquinius Priscus
Servius Tullius
Tarquinius Superbus
Tyrant
Lucretia
Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus
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Lucius Junius Brutus
Rape of Lucretia
Pudicitia

Add:
Interregnum
Tanaquil
Tullia

MODULE #6 ORIGINS OF ETRUSCANS

Etruscans
Nativist Model/Theory
Mediterranean Substratum
Invasionist Model/Theory
Stratigraphy
Stratification
Necropolis (plural necropoleis)
Bucchero
Tuscan

Add
Rasenna

MODULE #7 CURSUS HONORUM

Cursus Honorum
Consul
Imperium
Praetor
Curule Aedile
Comitia Centuriata
Concilium Plebis
Tribune
Aedile
Sacrosanctity
Censor
Manumissio Vindicta
Novus Homo
Auctoritas patrum
Nobles
Rex Sacrorum

Add
Dictator
Comitia Curiata
Quaestor
Curule
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MODULE# 8: FROM KINGSHIP TO REPUBLIC

(Battle of) Silva Arsia

Lars Porsena
Horatius Cocles
Mucius Scaevola
Cloelia
(Battle of) Regillus
Octavius Mamilius
Foedus Cassianum
Janiculum
Pons Sublicius
Janus
Temple of Janus
Liver of Piacenza
Haruspicium
Auspicium
Auguries
Aristodemus of Cumae
Ancus Marcius
Add: Arruns