Geography
The city of Rome is located on this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
These special constructs brought fresh water to Roman cities.
What are aqueducts?
This form of government is where people choose representatives to make laws.
What is a republic?
This term is used to describe leaders who use their power to get rich and hurt people.
What is corruption?
This man helped spread Christianity in Rome.
Who is Paul?
These are the two major mountain ranges in Italy.
What are the Alps and the Apennines?
This gave Roman people special rights and protections under the law.
What is citizenship?
This is the name of the group of wealthy and powerful leaders that made laws.
What is the Senate?
This major internal problem contributed to the decline and eventual separation of the Roman Empire into 2 parts.
What was the size of Rome? (It was too big to control.)
Before the monotheistic (belief in one God) Christian religion, Romans had this type of religion.
What is Polytheism (polytheistic, or belief in many Gods)?
This river provides fresh water for the cities of Rome and Florence.
What is the Tiber River?
This major religion spread with the help of Romans.
What is Christianity?
These were the two main groups within Roman society.
Who are patricians (wealthy leaders) and plebeians (common people)?
The increase of slavery contributed to the decline of Rome for this reason.
These were the only citizens who could vote in Roman society.
Who are landowning male citizens?
The Italian peninsula extends into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This achievement helped Romans build things like the Forum and the Colosseum.
What is concrete?
This was the public meeting place where government, religion, and trading took place in Rome.
What is the Forum?
As the Empire declined, the rich became richer which led to this.
What is the poor becoming poorer?
This Roman Emperor split the Roman Empire into two separate Empires.
Who is Diocletian?