Rise of the Empire
This is the group of people what made up the Second Triumvirate.
Who are Lepidus, Octavian, and Marc Antony?
This is another name for the Year of Four Emperors.
What is the Civil War of 69 AD?
What is Hadrian's Wall?
This was the moved capital of the Roman Empire under Constantine, and then the capital of the Eastern Roman empire until 1453.
What is Constantinople?
This is the name of the highest religious leader within the Roman Republic.
What is the Pontifex Maximus?
This is the "golden era" of peace established by Augustus upon his ascent to princeps.
What is the Pax Romana?
This is an emperor that is well-known for persecuting Christians and brought about the end to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty.
Who is Nero?
This is a trade location in the East that was used as a demonstration for desert engineering in Judaea.
What is Petra?
This is what caused the economic fallout of the Western Roman Empire.
What is hyperinflation?
(Bonus 100pts: how did this hyperinflation occur?)
These are the historical wars of the successors to Alexander the Great.
What are the Wars of the Diadochi?
(Bonus 100pts: name all four successor states)
This is the final battle between Octavian and Antony/Cleopatra, where the pair committed suicide.
During this era there was a golden and silver age of literature that developed these new styles of poetry to encourage the people to live lives away from the corrupt city in the peaceful country.
What is Didactic / Pastoral Poetry?
This Emperor is known for expanding the borders of the empire to their greatest extent.
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Trajan?
These three groups were responsible for multiple attacks on Rome and the empire's territory.
Who are the Huns, Goths/Visigoths, and Vandals?
This is the mission that the Athenians underwent to expand Westward as they assisted their allies in a proxy war against the Spartans, but turned out to be a terrible failure that led to their demise.
What is the Sicilian Expedition?
These are the powers of the Tribune, a permanent consulship, etc. that would elevate Augustus to the title of princeps.
What are the First and Second Settlements?
This dynasty arose out of the ashes of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, after the Year of Four Emperors.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Flavian Dynasty?
This emperor is well known for his stoic philosophy, writing the well-known book "Meditations."
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This made the Eastern Empire very wealthy, but without direct access the Western Empire suffered from limited government income.
What are the Silk Roads?
This is the reason why King Darius I declared war on the Greek city-states and began the Persian Wars.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Ionian Revolt?
This is the event that freed Judaea from the Seleucid Empire, only to be reconquered by Rome under Pompey.
What is the Maccabean Revolt?
What are the epistulae?
This was the cause of the Crisis of the 3rd Century.
What was the munity & murder of Severus Alexander?
(Bonus 100pts: why was he murdered by his own troops?)
This is the name of the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, that Orodacer deposed in 476 AD.
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
These are the official names of the main military center and marketplace within a Greek city-state.
What is the Acropolis and the Agora?