OCR GCSE Ancient History The Foundations of Rome 753 to 440 BC overview quiz quiz

Romulus, in 753 BC

Aeneas, in 1184 BC

Numa, in 700 BC

Brutus, in 509 BC

That Romulus was definitely a real historical person who once truly lived at Rome

That a real settlement existed on the Palatine at roughly the traditional date

That a she-wolf really did raise the abandoned twins beside the river

Nothing whatsoever can be confirmed by digging at the site of the city

Tullus Hostilius

Tarquinius Superbus

Numa Pompilius

Ancus Marcius

Founding the harbour town of Ostia at the mouth of the river

Destroying the rival nearby city of Alba Longa in a great war

Building the very first stone bridge across the river Tiber

Reorganising the citizens and army into classes by wealth

The Etruscans

Greek democracy

The Carthaginians

The Persians

753 BC

509 BC

494 BC

450 BC

A single dictator who ruled for life

A ruling council made up only of plebeians

Two consuls elected each year

An Etruscan governor sent to rule the city

A terrible famine that struck the whole city

A sudden Persian invasion of central Italy

The mysterious death of the founder Romulus

The rape of Lucretia by the king's son

The struggle between patricians and plebeians for rights

A long and bloody war fought between Rome and the Etruscans

A bitter dispute that broke out among the seven kings of Rome

A religious schism that split the priesthoods of the city apart

The consulship

The tribunes of the plebs

Free land

The abolition of the Senate

A grand set of new temples built in the Forum

An official list of all the kings who had ruled Rome

Rome's first written law code, displayed publicly

A peace treaty agreed between Rome and the Etruscans

He was a foreigner from outside Italy who openly hated the city of Rome

He never actually finished writing his enormous history of the city

He only ever used archaeology and flatly refused to read any written sources

He wrote centuries later with a moral purpose, not from contemporary records