Disc 2 (Paths to Empire, Rome's Lost Harbor)
These people were killed by wild animals during the Great Persecution.
Who are Christians/Christian Peoples/Jehovah's Witnesses?
The English translation of the Latin name of an ancient shrine, "Lapis Niger".
What is Black Stone?
Upon this building is the inscription, "M. AGRIPPA L. F. COS. TERTIUM FECIT" ("Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, in his third consulate, made this").
What is the Pantheon?
This elite army protected the emperor (and occasionally killed him).
What is the Praetorian Guard?
Emperor Septimius Severus often inflicted this punishment upon newly converted Christians.
What is violently executing them in an Amphitheater?
This number of paces was roughly equivalent to a Roman mile.
This city in modern-day Germany was the capital of the western empire.
What is Trier?
What is the sack of Jerusalem?
Most wealthy Romans lived on this hill.
What is the Palatine?
This was the new name for the Eastern Roman Empire after it wasn't in Rome anymore.
Who is Spartacus?
Rome became one of these in 509 BC.
What is a republic?
This emperor left the treasury in great debt, although the situation was later resolved by Vespasian.
Who was Nero?
This was Justinian's primary goal in his quest to restore Augustus's Empire.
This emperor constructed a hexagonally-shaped harbor at Ostia.
This place was largely the site of the First Punic War, where Hamilcar fought the Romans.
What is a Sicily?
This emperor was the founding member of the Flavian dynasty.
This was the name for the bundle of sticks carried by Lictors.
What are fasces?
With this law, Constantine officially legalized Christianity within Rome.
What is the Edict of Milan?
Aside from the veins of an animal liver, the Etruscans believed they could see the future through this activity.
What is observing the path of bird flight?
This emperor murdered his brother Geta, as well as almost 20,000 of his supporters, to secure his reign (built some pretty nice baths tho).
Who is Caracalla?
This group of people were the first to practice crucifixion before it was adopted by the Romans.
Who are the Persians?
This was the site of chariot races in Constantinople.
What is the Hippodrome?