Geography
People
Achievements
Government
Wild Card
100
The mountain range that runs through the Italian peninsula, forming its "backbone"
What is the Apennine Mountians?
100
A religious leader and the founder of Christianity
Who is Jesus?
100
A high, arched structure built to carry water over long distances.
What is an aqueduct?
100
The earliest written collection of Roman Laws.
What are the Twelve Tables?
100
The language spoken in Ancient Rome.
What is Latin?
200
The river that helped Roman citizens travel between the mountains ansd the coast.
What is the Tiber River?
200
A boy from legend after whom Rome was named.
Who is Romulus?
200
Ancient Rome had over 50,000 miles of these.
What are roads?
200
A common farmer, trader, or craftowrker.
What is a plebian?
200
The name of the Eastern empire, after the Western Empire fell.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
300
The geographical feature that protected Rome from attack.
What are the seven hills?
300
Diocletian was famous for doing what to the Roman empire?
What is splitting it in two?
300
The major crop of the Roman Empire.
What are grapes?
300
A member of Roman nobility,
What is a Patrician?
300
The sea that borders Rome to the west.
What is the Mediterranean?
400
The benefit that the inactive volcanos surrounding the Latium Plain provided to the land in Rome.
What is fertility? (Good for crops.0
400
The Roman emporer responsible for establishing the Pax Romana.
Who is Augustus?
400
French and Italian are examples of these, which are derived from Latin.
What are Romance Languages?
400
The three branches of Roman government
What are consuls, senators, and tribunes?
400
The Roman general (who became its dictator) warned to "beware the ides of March" before his assassination in 44 B.C.E.
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
The island that the "boot" (the Italian peninsula) is "kicking"
What is Sicily?
500
The capital of the Eastern Empire was named this, after its first emporer.
What is Constantinople?
500
The type of democracy used in ancient Rome (and in the modern U.S.A.)
What is representitive?
500
The supreme judges in ancient Rome who controlled the army.
Who were the consuls?
500
The Ancient Roman city destroyed by a volcano in A.D. 79.
What is Pompeii?
M
e
n
u