Damnatio Memoria
What are the names of the five damnatio memoria
Caligula, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius
Which Roman Emperor was also a philosopher?
Marcus Aurelius
What achievement is emperor Hadrian most known for?
Hadrian’s wall in Britain
What was the name of the river that Julius Caesar famously crossed, thus signaling an act of war on Rome.
The Rubicon
What was the name of the Egyptian princess that Julius Caesar named as the next Pharaoh?
Cleopatra VII
What religion started spreading after Mingdi invited Indian missionaries to China?
Buddhism
Which Roman emperor wanted to make his horse a consul.
Caligula
Where outside Rome did the emperor Tiberius “retire” to for the latter part of his reign?
Campania or Capri
What solution did emperor Marcus Aurelius use to restore the Empire’s drained treasury?
Sold off goods from the Imperial palace.
Name the members of the 1st triumvirate.
Julius Caesar
Pompey
Marcus Licinius Crassus
What was the name and nationality of the slave/gladiator who successfully led other gladiators in a war against Rome?
Spartacus. Thracian.
What Christian symbol did Emperor Constantine carve into his helmet and place on his standard before going into the Battle of the Milvian Bridge?
The Chi Rho
Although Nero made many terrible decisions during his reign, which one set him on the path to disaster?
His decision to let Armenia go back to the Parthians.
Who led the Jewish uprising in Jerusalem after the emperor Hadrian tried to build a temple to Jupiter on the site of the 2nd Temple?
Simon Bar Kochba
How did the emperor Nerva avoid being assassinated by the Praetorian Guard?
Naming the general, Trajan, as his successor.
Who were the combatants in the Social War?
The Roman Republic and its Italian Allies.
What was the name of the last Jewish fortress to hold out against Rome, where all of the men killed their families and themselves rather than surrender to Rome?
Masada
What was the official title for the High Priest of the Roman State religion?
Pontifex Maximus
Which “friend” of Nero did Nero declare to be divorced from his wife so Nero could marry the wife himself?
Otho
What is the title (in Latin and in English) that Domitian adopted for himself?
dominus et deus, lord and god
Rome expanded to its furthest extent under the rule of which emperor?
Trajan
Who was the first Roman general to lead his troops against Rome starting a full-scale civil war?
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
What Jewish man did Pompey appoint to be the “High Priest and Ethnarch” of Jerusalem, thus ending the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty?
John Hyrcanus
What religion did Adashir I declare to be the state religion of the neo-Persian empire?
Zoroastrianism
Who was coming to Rome that made the emperor Otho kill himself?
Vitellius
Name two Roman Emperors who reigned between Aurelian and Diocletian.
Carus
Numerian
What was the most exciting event that occurred during the 23-year reign of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius?
A celebration of the empire’s 900th anniversary.
Name the members of the 2nd triumvirate and their 2 combatants in Rome’s 3rd Civil War.
Octavian Brutus
Marc Antony Cassius
Lepidus
What was the name of the Persian king who conquered and ended the Parthian Empire in 224 BC, thereby establishing the Sassanian Empire?
Ardashir I
The story called “The Acts of Thomas “ (about doubting Thomas) was written by scholars of what Christian heresy?
Gnosticism