Geography
This geographic feature provided Rome with fertile soil and a way to transport goods.
What is the Tiber River?
The name for the wealthy, land-owning citizens who held most of the power.
What are Patricians?
The 200-year period of peace and prosperity that began with Augustus.
What is the Pax Romana?
These four books of the Bible are the main source of info about Jesus' life.
What are the Gospels?
He divided the Empire into East and West to make it easier to manage.
Diocletian
Rome's central location on this peninsula made it a perfect hub for trade.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
In the Roman Republic, these two officials headed the government.
What are Consuls?
This massive stone structure was built to host public entertainment.
What is the colosseum?
He was the first Roman Emperor to accept and legalise Christianity.
Who was Constantine?
Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium and renamed it this.
Constantinople
These wars were fought between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
This is the specific term for a group of three rulers who share power.
What is a Triumvirate?
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius are known as these.
Who are the 5 Good Emperors?
This term describes the forced scattering of the Jews from their homeland.
What is the Diaspora?
Attacks from this nomadic group ultimately led to the fall of the West.
Who are the Huns?
Rome was built on this specific river.
What is the Tiber River?
These were the common citizens (farmers, artisans) who made up the majority.
What are Plebians?
This poet wrote the Aeneid, the epic story of Rome’s history.
Who is Virgil?
Modern "Romance Languages" (like French and Spanish) are based on this.
What is Latin?
The Roman Republic officially ended in this year (BC).
What is 27 BC?