Geography
Is Rome a city or a country?
What is a city.
Which group of people in Ancient Rome was larger?
Who are the plebeians.
Who was the Roman general who became the republic’s first dictator?
Who was Julius Caesar.
According to the legend, how did Rome get it's name? Who is it named after?
Who was King Romulus.
Which part of the Roman empire ended first?
What is the western empire.
What is Italy known to be shaped as?
What is a boot.
What group of people were members of Rome's noble families and took power after overthrowing the king?
Who are the patricians.
Who was the Roman emperor who divided the empire in two and oversaw the eastern part?
Who was Diocletian.
What were the first written set of laws and rules in ancient Rome called?
What are the Twelve Tables.
What was the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium renamed to?
What is Constantinople.
What is the name of the river that flows southward from north-central Italy across the Latium plain?
What is the Tiber River.
Who were the people that farmed and protested when the other group of Roman citizens took power?
Who were the plebeians.
Who was the general of Carthage who marched his army from Spain to Rome in the second Punic War?
Who is Hannibal.
What were the series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage in the 200s BC, ending in a victory for Rome called?
What are the Punic Wars.
How was Pompeii destroyed?
What is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
What is Europe's highest mountain range?
What are the Alps.
What does the word republic mean in Latin?
What is "public things."
Who was the first Roman emperor; he won the civil war following his relative's assassination and went on to unify the empire and establish the Pax Romana?
Who was Augustus (formerly Octavian).
Scipio's large army won Carthage's territory during which battle?
What is the Battle of Zama.
Caesar wanted absolute power and become dictator of Rome, causing what to happen?
What is a civil war.
What area of land in Italy lacks rich soil, so there is more sheep herding than farming?
What is the Apennine Mountains.
What are the three branches of the Roman government?
What are the Senate, Consuls, and Tribunes.
Who was the Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama outside Carthage, North Africa, in 202 BC?
Who was Scipio.
What does Pax Romana mean in Latin?
What is "Roman peace."
Why was Caesar assassinated?
What is Senators hated him for being dictator and destroying their republican government.