A military dictator who was assassinated after people feared his growing power.
Who was Julius Caesar?
100
The fire in Rome that happened in 64 AD.
What is the Great Fire of Rome?
100
Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort.
What is efficiency?
100
The religious group that the Romans tried to have religious tolerance with, but later became a political problem.
Who were the Jews?
100
The capital of the Byzantine Empire
What is Constantinople?
200
A Roman emperor who reconquered parts of the fallen western empire and simplified Roman laws.
Who was Justinian?
200
The river that Julius Caesar crossed for a confrontation in Rome.
What is the Rubicon River?
200
The legal system of collection of up to date and fair Roman laws.
What is Justinian's Code?
200
The first emperor to become Christian.
Who was Constantine?
200
The orator and philosopher who called on Romans to work together.
Who was Cicero?
300
The leader of the Huns that lead attacks against Rome.
Who was Attila?
300
The peaceful first 200 years of the Roman Empire.
What is Pax Romana?
300
The westernmost of the two empires created by the division of the later Roman Empire
Old Western Empire
300
The word for God's anointed one.
What is the "Messiah"?
300
The other name for the Eastern Roman Empire.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
400
Germanic people that invaded the Roman Empire from the east between the 3rd and 5th centuries.
Who were the Goths?
400
The name that marked of the end of the Roman Republic and beginning of the Roman Empire.
Who is "Augustus"?
400
The word that describes the misuse of government money through the loss of values.
What is corruption?
400
The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
What is Christianity?
400
The wife of Justinian who helped create laws to aid women and children and to end government corruption
Who was Theodora?
500
The Roman Emperor that divided the emperor into two and initiated the last persecution of the Christians.
Who was Emperor Diocletian?
500
The mark of the transition from B.C. to A.D.
What was the birth of Jesus?
500
The nomadic people that invaded Rome from the east and south.
Who were the Huns?
500
The Christian church comprising the local and national Eastern churches that are in communion with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople
What was the "Orthodox Church"?
500
Turks of the empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries