The Romans Create a Republic
In the Roman republic, one of the two powerful officials elected each year to command the army and direct the government ...
Answer: consul.
Roman general, statesman, and historian: conqueror of Gaul, Britain, etc.
Answer: Julius Caesar.
The founder of the Christian religion ...
Answer: Jesus (or Jesus Christ).
A city built on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine the Great, A.D. 330: capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and later of the Ottoman Empire ...
Answer: Constantinople.
An ancient culture that developed from a blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman culture ...
Answer: Greco-Roman culture.
In ancient Rome, a political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time ...
Answer: dictator.
A conflict between two political groups within the same country ...
Answer: civil war.
One of the twelve apostles, a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee and leader of the group of apostles. He was the reputed author of two New Testament epistles bearing his name ...
Answer: Peter (or St. Peter).
A decline in the value of money, accompanied by a rise in the prices of goods and services ...
Answer: inflation.
A pipeline or channel built to carry water to populated areas ...
Answer: aqueduct.
Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy ...
Answer: Hannibal.
In ancient Rome, a group of three leaders sharing control of the government ...
Answer: triumvirate.
The bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Church ...
Answer: pope.
King of the Visigoths: captured Rome, A.D. 410 ...
Answer: Alaric.
An ancient city in SW Italy at the foot of Mount Vesuvius: buried by an eruption, A.D 79 ...
Answer: Pompeii.
A military unit of the ancient Roman army, made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers and a group of soldiers on horseback ...
Answer: legion.
First Roman emperor, 27 B.C.-A.D. 14: reformer, patron of arts and literature; heir and successor to Julius Caesar. Before 27 B.C., called Octavian ...
Answer: Augustus.
The dispersal of the Jews from their homeland in Palestine – especially during the period of more than 1,800 years that followed the Romans’ destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 ...
Answer: Diaspora.
A soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army ...
Answer: mercenary.
Roman historian and politician: author of the Annals and Histories ...
Answer: Tacitus.
A form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by the people ...
Answer: republic.
A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180 ...
Answer: Pax Romana.
Roman emperor, A.D. 324-337: built Constantinople as new capital; made Christian worship lawful ...
Answer: Constantine the Great.
King of the Huns who invaded Europe: defeated at Chalons-sur-Marne, A.D. 451, by the Romans and Visigoths ...
Answer: Attila.
Roman poet: author of The Aeneid ...
Answer: Virgil (or Vergil).