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As Ancient Rome watched Hannibal's power grow across Northern Africa, they waged war for roughly 90 years in the three of these against Carthage.
What are The Punic Wars?
100
The three periods of Ancient Roman history span 753 BCE to 509 BCE, 509 BCE to 27 BCE, and 27 BCE to 1453 CE.
What are Kingdom, Republic, and Empire?
100
The Ancient Romans "borrowed" their Gods and Goddesses from this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
100
This ancient civilization also had an empire similar to Ancient Rome. It began in 221 BCE with Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
What is Ancient China?
100
The three major inventions to come out of Ancient Rome.
What are arches, roads, and concrete?
200
The Colosseum, or bloody arena where gladiators would often fight to the death, could hold up to 75,000 spectators and was opened in this year at the blessing of Emperor Titus.
What is 80 CE?
200
This bronze age civilization's mature period (time of advancements) was 2600-1900 BCE. It is also known as the Harappan civilization.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
200
Ancient Romans believed that every element on the planet had its own God or Goddess in human form. For example, Neptune was the God of the Sea. Nemesis was the Goddess of revenge. But you also had obscure Gods like Palatua, the Goddess of the Palpatine Hill. These Ancient Civilizations also believed that Gods or Goddesses took human form.
What is Greece, India/China, Egypt, and Mesopotamia?
200
Ancient Egypt worshiped the colors of their surroundings. Blue for the sky, red for the desert, and black for the fertile soil. Ancient Romans treasured this color, although they could not wear it themselves, unless they were in government.
What is purple?
200
In Ancient Egypt, art was preserved inside tombs and pyramids. This city, under Ancient Rome's control, was obliterated by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE thus preserving all of what we know of Ancient Rome's art history.
What is Pompeii?
300
In 73 BCE, this gladiator led a slave revolt and it took two years for the Roman army to defeat him.
Who is Spartacus?
300
This civilization had the Archaic period (800–500 BCE), the Classical period (c. 500 – 323 BC), and the Hellenistic period (323–146 BC). It was only when the Romans led their conquest that this civilization was sacked.
What is Ancient Greece?
300
In Ancient Rome they built temples to appease the Gods. Mesopotamia was one of the first civilizations to build temples for the Gods. They called these temples this.
What are ziggurats?
300
While Ancient Rome eventually became a democracy, this ancient civilization's government was mostly an autocracy (single leader, unlimited power).
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Unlike Ancient Rome, who used the arch to build wide and tall structures, the Ancient Greeks used columns including the Doric, Ionic, and the Corinthian. This style of building is called this.
What is post and lintel?
400
When he became emperor in CE 306, he declared Christianity to be the national religion of Rome.
Who is Constantine?
400
Ancient Egypt consisted of three time periods from 2686-2181 BCE, 2055-1650 BCE, and 1550-1069 BCE. These time periods were titled like this.
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom?
400
During the Republic, Ancient Rome believed in the Roman religion or many Gods and Goddesses. In Ancient India, the Indus people believed in this religion that still has strong roots in society today.
What is Hinduism?
400
In Ancient Greece, girls were forbidden from going to school and boys were taught at schools to learn the words of Homer, a famous Greek epic poet, and to play the lyre. In Ancient Rome, boys went to school while girls were taught at home. In school, they focused on these three subjects.
What is reading, writing, and arithmetic?
400
Ancient Romans used concrete along with other materials to construct homes in the city. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia used this building material to build their homes.
What are mud bricks?
500
The end of ancient civilizations is said to have ended in the year 476 CE with the taking over of Rome by this Germanic soldier who named himself king, thus ending the Roman Empire and restoring it back to a Kingdom.
Who is Odoacer?
500
These two brothers are the stars of the story that begins Ancient Rome. *HINT* "Don't cross my sacred boundary!"
Who are Romulus and Remus?
500
The planets that were named after Roman Gods after the end of their civilization. Remember that Ancient Romans could only see as far away as Saturn.
What are Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto?
500
In Ancient Rome, it was illegal for patricians and plebians to get married. This law would be found on this set of laws.
What are The Twelve Tables?
500
The Roman Empire, at its height, was a sight to behold. It held nearly 5,000,000 people and truly perfected urban planning, or the art of planning cities. This civilization was one of the first to use urban planning.
What is Ancient India?
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