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Intel Briefing Unit 1 · Lesson 1 Ancient Rome

From Republic to Empire

Rome spent five hundred years refusing to have a king. Then it got one, and almost nobody noticed the day it happened.

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Day One

The Questions

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Four questions about the story you just read. Pick your answer straight off, or press Find it in the story if you would rather hunt for the sentence first.

Day Two

The Words

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Four words the booklet lists but never explains. Tap a card to see what it means. Every one of them is also explained somewhere in the story.

Vocabulary Check

When you finish: write the answers out in your own words — not copied word for word from the choices. Saying it your own way is the part that proves you understood it. Then use Print answer sheet for a one-page record of what was answered and scored.