Geography and Culture
What river was crucial to the development of Rome?
Answer: What is the Tiber River?
Who was the Roman Emperor that made Christianity legal?
Who is Emperor Constantine?
What was the name of the group of three rulers in Rome?
What is a Triumvirate?
Name one factor that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
What is economic troubles?
What was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire?
What is Constantinople?
What type of government was established in Rome before it became an empire?
Answer: What is a republic?
What event is known as the Edict of Milan?
What is the declaration that allowed Christians to worship freely?
Who was Julius Caesar’s main political rival?
Who is Pompey?
Which two groups invaded the Roman Empire and contributed to its fall?
Who are the Germanic tribes and the Huns?
Who was the famous emperor known for the Justinian Code?
Who is Emperor Justinian?
Name one major architectural achievement of the Romans.
What is the Colosseum?
What was the main difference between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
What is the language of services (Latin for Catholic and Greek for Orthodox)?
What did Julius Caesar do that showed he was becoming too powerful?
What is he marched his army into Rome?
What was the name of the last Roman Emperor?
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
What significant religious split occurred in 1054?
What is the Great Schism?
Which city was the center of the Roman Empire?
What is Rome?
Who was the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church?
What is the Patriarch?
What year was Julius Caesar assassinated?
What is 44 B.C.?
What year is commonly cited as the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
What is 476 A.D.?
What was one reason Byzantium prospered when the West struggled?
What is its location on trade routes?
What language did the Romans primarily speak?
What is Latin?
What significant church did Emperor Justinian build?
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Who was the first emperor of Rome?
Who is Augustus?
Who divided the Roman Empire into East and West?
Who is Emperor Diocletian?
What was the main religion of the Byzantine Empire?
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?