Analyze the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE) — its founding mythology (Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus), mixed-constitution governance (2 Consuls + Senate + Plebeian Tribunes + popular assemblies), the Conflict of the Orders 494-287 BCE (patricians vs plebeians), the Twelve Tables c. 450 BCE, and Cicero's De Re Publica political theory — per Mary Beard's SPQR scholarship
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~4 min
hist.g6.f.ex_34
Matching
Prompt
Match each Roman Republic office/institution to its function: (a) Consul; (b) Senate; (c) Plebeian Tribune; (d) Comitia Centuriata; (e) Twelve Tables.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
matching
pairs
- a
- 2 chief magistrates, 1-year terms, can veto each other, imperium
- b
- 300 lifetime members from patrician families, advisory + increasingly dominant
- c
- 10 elected by plebs, sacrosanct, veto power over Senate
- d
- Assembly organized by military century, elected consuls + declared war
- e
- 450 BCE — Rome's first written laws making law public to plebeians
Hints
- MG-16 Roman Republic Governance Diagram has the answers.
- Tribunes had veto power.
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Consul with President
- Forgetting Tribunes' sacrosanct status
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