Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome Geography

100

I am the body of water surrounding the Italian peninsula.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

200

I am the country in which Rome is found.

What is Italy?

300

I am a geographical feature that is defined as a piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water.

What is a peninsula?

400

I am the 3 continents that contained the vast Roman Empire.

What is Europe, Africa & Asia?

500

I am the the river that flows through the city of Rome

What is the Tiber River?

Ancient Rome Government

100

I am a single person who hold absolute power. It is often gained through force or fraud. I supress freedom of speech.

What is a dictatorship?

200

I am the set of written laws created by the Roman Republic.

What are the Twelve Tables?

300

I became the Roman Empire's first Emperor

Who is Augustus?

400

Name 1 of the 3 major periods of governement in Ancient Rome.

What are the:

Regal Period, Republican Period, Imperial Period

500

I am the law making body of the government in the Republic.

What is the Senate?

The people of Ancient Rome

100

Romen women could do most that Romen men could do….but they could not...

What is vote? Attend the gladiator fights at the Colosseum? Go to school?

200

We were acquired from areas that Rome conquered. We could be traded and are considered property and have no rights.

What is a slave?

300

I am the common folk of Rome. I am a farmer, merchant or artisan.

What is a plebeian?

400

I am the top 10% of the Roman people and I own lots of land.

What is a patrician?

500

I am the term used to decribe the ruler of the Roman Empire.

What is emperor?

Ancient Rome Facts

100

What are the names of the twin men who founded Rome?

Romulus and Remus

200

The continent that Rome, Italy is located on

What is an Europe?

300

I was loved so much by the plebeians & freeman as I gave them food. They made me dictator for life, then I was assinated.

Who is Julius Caesar?

400

From whom did the Romans borrow many of their ideas about literacy, religion, and architecture

Who are the Greeks?

500

I am the form of government in which citizens elect people to make decisions/laws for them.

What is a republic?

Ancient Rome War & Decline

100

Ancient Rome built thousands of miles of _________ across their empire.

What are roads?

200

Name 3 things traded in Ancient Rome

Spices, grain, slaves, merchandise (pottery), animals, textiles, metals, wine, timber, marble.

300

Why did Rome decline? a) Weak leadership b)Economic Problems c)Military decline d)social problems AND 

What is: 

Over expansion

400

These two cities fought with each other in the Punic Wars?

Rome and Carthage

500

The name given for the 200 year period of peace and prosperity during the Roman Empire

What is Pax Romana?