GEOGRAPHY
The capital city of the Roman Empire
What is Rome?
Name of the Roman goddess of love
What is Venus?
The purpose of the Roman Colosseum
What is it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles?
The type of government Rome had before becoming an empire
What is a Republic?
Name of the language spoke in Ancient Rome
What is Latin?
The name of the river that flows through Rome
What is the Tiber River?
The official religion of the Roman Empire after 380 CE
What is Christianity?
Name of the arena in Rome where chariot races were held.
What is the Circus Maximus?
The first Roman Emperor
Who was Augustus?
Name of breakfast food originating from a roman goddess.
What is cereal?
The name of the sea in which the Roman empire was found
What is The Mediterranean Sea?
The equivalent of Roman gods and goddesses
Who are the Greek gods and goddesses?
Romans were kept happy and peaceful by two things - panem et circenses - which can be translated as ....
What is bread and circuses?
Names of the legendary twin founders of Rome
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Name of the gladiator/soldier sold into slavery
Who is Spartacus?
The year the Western Roman Empire fell
What is 476CE?
Who is Mars?
Approximate number of people that could be seated at Circus Maximus
What is 250,000 people?
Who fought against Rome in the Punic Wars
Where is Carthage?
Planet names originating from Roman gods or goddesses
What are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
The name of the structure built under Emperor Hadrian that marked the northern limit of Britannia.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
Father of twins Apollo and Diana
Who is Jupiter?
Type of gladitor who wore a helmet and armguards and carried a short sword and shield. Often fought against Thracians.
What is a Murmillo?
The name of the Carthaginian general who famously crossed the Alps to invade Italy
Who is Hannibal?
This event happened in 44BCE and led to Augustus becoming emperor
What is the assassination of Julius Caesar?