Roads Flashcards

(21 cards)

1
Q

What road, which followed the course of a stream and led between the Regia and the temple of Vesta, continued to the Capitol?

A

Via Sacra

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2
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What Etruscan named road road led on from the Forum to the Cattle Market (Forum Boarium) near the Tiber?

A

Vicus Tuscus

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3
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What road was one of the greatest military roads constructed in Italy, running between Rome and Capua,
linking Rome more closely with this area of trade and industry?

A

Via Appia

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4
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What road constructed Appius Claudius…

A

Via Appia

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5
Q

What road provided an all-weather line of communications from Rome to Tarracina and Capua?

A

Via Appia

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6
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What road, which ran through Alba Fucens…

A

Via Valeria

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7
Q

What was Rome’s “Great North Road” which ran from Rome to Ariminum?

A

Via Flaminia

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8
Q

Parallel to the Via Flaminia and built around the same time…

A

Via Aurelia

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9
Q

What road was built along the coast of Tuscany and ran from Rome to Pisae?

A

Via Aurelia

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10
Q

Hasdrubal endeavoured
in his turn to give the Romans the slip by swerving off along what road, but was eventually cornered and brought to battle at the Metarus River?

A

Via Flaminia

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11
Q

The Roman settlements in northern Italy were connected with several new military roads, of which the most important was what road whose construction was arranged by the consul in 187 BC?

A

Via Aemilia Lepidi

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12
Q

Arranged by the consul of 187 BC with an eponymous name, what road was constructed…

A

Via Aemilia Lepidi

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13
Q

Continuing the Via Flaminia further north…

A

Via Aemilia Lepidi

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14
Q

What highway (whose name survives in the modern
district of Emiglia) continued the Via Flaminia from Ariminum to Placentia?

A

Via Aemilia Lepidi

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15
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In 187 BC, who supplemented the Via Flaminia, which his father had constructed, by a trans Apennine route from the Arno valley to Bononia?

A

Gaius Flaminius (consul of 187)

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16
Q

What highroad to Genua offered special difficulties of construction because of the rugged nature of the Riviera coast, and thus was not completed until 109 BC?

A

Via Aemilia Scauri

17
Q

In 198 the Macedonian king Philip V (rightly divining
that the Romans would not again follow the line of what road but might attempt the
valley of the river Aous in order to join hands with the Aetolians in Thessaly) moved forward to occupy a defile on this route not far from the Adriatic coast?

18
Q

In 148 BC, the Senate resigned
itself to the annexation of Macedonia. To defend the new province alliances were
made with several Thracian chiefs and what high
road was constructed from Apollonia to Thessalonica?

19
Q

From the Velia to the Forum, what road, while it was the only commodious road for vehicular traffic in the narrow Forum, was not enlarged to meet the growing needs of public life?

20
Q

During the social war, the line of what road (along with the territory of the Marsi) formed the northern principal theater of war?

A

Via Valeria (remember because in social war rebels tried to thrust past Alba Fucens which was the Via Valeria pass through it)