What language did they speak in Rome?
Latin
Name three of Rome's enemies
Gauls, Carthage, Huns, Goths, Sabines, Italians, Etruscans
What is the epic poem that glorified Rome by linking its past to Greece and the Trojan War?
The Aeneid
What work did Julius Caesar write during his campaign in modern-day France?
De Bello Gallica
What famous Roman orator and author famously opposed Mark Antony and his bid to the "throne"?
Cicero
what other civilization did Rome have three separate wars with?
Carthage
Golden Age Roman poet who used satire to point out the "follies and vices" of his age.
Horace
What series of wars began with a mythical event where a neighboring city's women were abducted?
The Roman-Sabine Wars
The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he disrupted the selection process by choosing his own son to follow him.
Marcus Aurlieus
name two ancient roman comic playwrights
Plautus, Terence, Livius Andronicus, and Ennius
What major battle occured between the Germanic tribes and the Romans in 9CE?
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest