Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economy
Society
100
This landform describes Italy because it is mostly surrounded by water on three sides and famously resembles a high-heeled boot.
What is a peninsula?
100
This term describes the Roman belief system of worshipping many gods, heavily influenced by Greek mythology.
What is polytheism?
100
This 50,000-mile Roman innovation improved military movement, trade, and cultural unity across the empire, with some sections still usable today.
What are Roman roads?
100
This Roman general triggered a civil war in 49 BCE by illegally leading his army across a river into Italy.
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
This economic activity formed the foundation of Rome’s economy and produced wheat, olives, grapes, and citrus fruits.
What is agriculture/farming?
100
This social class made up the majority of Rome’s population but held far less political power than the elites.
Who are the plebeians?
200
These two mountain ranges protected Italy by forming barriers in the north and along the center of the peninsula.
What are the Alps and the Apennines?
200
These are the Roman names for Zeus, Hera, and Athena, the three most important gods adopted from Greece.
A. Jupiter, Mars, Venus B. Jupiter, Juno,Minerva
C. Mars, Pluto, Venus D. Zeus, Vulcan, Fanus
B. Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva
200
This language of ancient Rome later evolved into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian.
What is Latin?
200
This term describes the Roman system of government in which citizens elected their leaders.
What is a republic?
200
Rome expanded territorially in part because conquering provinces gave access to these valuable materials and supplies needed by the empire.
What are natural resources?
200
This central Roman meeting place served as the location for government buildings, temples, markets, speeches, and social life.
What is the Roman Forum?
300
These territories outside of Italy were supervised by Roman governors, allowing people from places like Egypt, Britain, and Syria to still be considered Roman.
What are provinces?
300
According to Roman legend, this twin killed his brother before founding Rome and becoming its first king.
Who is Romulus?
300
These Roman structures transported mountain water into cities and are one of the clearest examples of engineering focused on utility and durability.
What are aqueducts?
300
A social conflict between these two classes of people in Rome (one lower, one higher) led to the creation of tribunes to protect the lower class.
Who are the plebeians and patricians?
300
This Roman coin, originally made mostly of silver, became the empire’s most common form of currency.
What is a denarius?
300
These Roman military units of about 5,000 soldiers helped Rome expand and spread its culture across the provinces.
What are legions?
400
This sea was crucial to Roman trade because it connected Rome to other civilizations and major trade routes beyond the Tiber River.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This Roman emperor legalized Christianity in 313 CE through the Edict of Milan after converting the year before.
A. Caligula B. Marc Antony
C. Augustus D. Constantine
D. Constantine
400
This set of laws, written on bronze tablets and displayed in 450 BCE, became Rome’s first official legal code.
What are the Twelve Tables?
400
This system of government divided power among magistrates, the Senate, and assemblies to prevent any one group from becoming too powerful.
What is a tripartite (three part) government?
400
This economic system connected cities across the empire through seas, rivers, and roads, bringing in ivory from Africa, spices from India, and silk from China.
What is trade?
400
This role of Roman soldiers beyond warfare helped strengthen imperial control by making them serve as more than just fighters.
What are roads? (infrastructure)
500
At its maximum size, Rome controlled about this many square miles of territory and stretched across three continents.
A. 5 million B. 4 million
C. 2 million D. 8 million
C. 2 million
500
This leader, not one of the original Apostles, made three missionary journeys, established churches across Roman provinces, and wrote most of the epistles in the New Testament.
(Hint: It is the name of a boy on our team!)
Who is Paul?
500
The United States government and the Roman Republic have several similarities and differences. List 3 of each!
Similarities
Checks and balances, term limits, executive and legislative branches, leaders are elected
Differences
No clear separation of powers (Rome), no judicial branch (Rome), wider voter base (U.S)
500
This 27 BCE political shift occurred when Octavian took the title “Augustus,” marking the end of the Republic despite claiming to restore power to the Senate, and the start of this period of Roman history.
What is the Roman Empire?
500
This economic problem occurred when emperors reduced the silver and gold in Roman coins, causing prices to rise as merchants lost trust in the currency.
What is inflation?
500
This famous enslaved gladiator led the largest slave rebellion in Roman history between 73 and 71 BCE.
A. Spartacus B. Maximus Areleus
C. Constantine D. Marc Antony
A. Spartacus