Influences
What was early Roman society based on?
a. religion
b. politics
c. the army
d. education
c. the army
What do followers of Allah & students of the Koran believe in?
a. Greek Orthodoxy
b. Christianity
c. Islam
d. Judaism
c. Islam
What was the Pax Romana?
a. the long period of peace in the Roman Empire
b. the words placed on public buildings in ancient Rome
c. the motto of the Delian League
d. the highest rank in the Roman army
a. a long period of peace in the Roman Empire.
Who basically designed the calendar we use today?
a. Socrates
b. Constantine
c. Julius Caesar
d. Caesar Augustus
c. Julius Cesar
Who were members of Rome’s upper class?
a. the helots
b. the metics
c. the plebians
d. the patricians
d. the patricians
Today, we pledge allegiance to a republic inspired by whom?
a. Athens
b. Sparta
c. the Roman Republic
d. the Persian Empire
c. the Roman Republic
Who became the leader of the new religion Islam?
a. Hannibal
b. Muhammad
c. Buddha
d. Scipio Africanus
b. Muhammad
What was at stake during the Punic Wars?
a. control of Greece
b. control of Carthage
c. control of the Middle East
d. control of the western Mediterranean
d. control of the western Mediterranean
What did Julius Caesar force the Senate to do?
a. vote for him as Dictator for Life
b. divide Rome into separate voting districts
c. make him the Supreme Commander of all of Rome’s army
d. restrict Roman citizenship to only those who were of noble birth
a vote for him as Dictator for Life
The Carthaginians were originally
a. Phoenicians
b. Spaniards
c. Germans
d. Greeks
a. Phoenicians
What was Rome’s chief governing body?
a. Assembly
b. Senate
c. Acropolis
d. Supreme Court
b. Senate
Who wrote a poem that celebrated the glory of Rome?
a. Virgil
b. Homer
c. Octavian
d. Hannibal
a. Virgil
What did the Edict of Milan do?
a. made Caesar a god
b. ended the Punic Wars
c. made Latin the official language of the Roman Empire
d. made Christianity a legal religion in the Roman Empire
d. made christianity a legal religion in the Roman Empire
Who ruled Rome after Julius Caesar?
a. Cleopatra
b. Pompey
c. Caesar Augustus
d. Alexander the Great
c. Cesar Augustus
What were members of the Roman lower class called?
a. patricians
b. plebians
c. aristocrats
d. peasants
b. plebians
What are the White House, Capitol, & Jefferson Memorial based on?
a. Roman & Spanish architecture
b. Byzantine architecture
c. Greek & Turkish architecture
d. Greek & Roman architecture
d. Greek & Roman architecture
Who was the first known Christian martyr?
a. Paul
b. David
c. Stephen
d. Constantine
c. Stephen
Which of the following did Hannibal NOT do during the Second Punic War?
a. raid Saguntum
b. attack Rome by land
c. trek across the Alps
d. sail across the Mediterranean Sea
What river did Julius Caesar cross showing the senate he would fight them for
power?
a. the Tigris River
b. the Euphrates River
c. the Jordan River
d. the Rubicon River
d. the Rubicon River
What do we call a period when trade and business slow down?
a. inflation
b. instability
c. a recession
d. a depression
c. a recession
What was the name of the Eastern Roman Empire that lasted from 330 to 1453?
a. the Byzantine Empire
b. Phoenicia
c. Ostrogothia
d. the Visigoth Empire
a. the Byzantine Empire
What relation was Octavian to Julius Caesar?
a. son
b. grandson
c. great nephew
d. Octavian was not related to Julius Caesar
c. great nephew
Around 500 BC, along what river in Italy were a few thousand farmers living?
a. the Yangtze River
b. the Jordan River
c. the Yellow River
d. the Tiber River
d. the Tiber River
For what is Julius Caesar remembered?
a. being a great general
b. craving power no matter what the cost
c. starting a civil war in Rome
d. all of the above
d. All of the above
How did Hannibal die?
a. he was shot
b. he died of old age
c. he poisoned himself
d. he was stoned to death
c. he poisoned himself