The name of a famous and ambitious Roman general who declared himself Dictator for life.
Who was Julius Caesar?
100
The name of the river running through the City of Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
200
Three famous works of Architecture in the Roman Empire.
What are the Coliseum, Aqueducts, the Pantheon, The Apian Way road system, and the Arch?
200
A wealthy landowner and office holder during the Roman Republic.
What is a Patrician?
200
These top two rulers of the Roman Republic were elected and shared power equally similar to our President in the United States of America.
Who were Consuls?
200
The name of the official First Roman Emperor.
Who was Caesar Augustus?
200
The name of the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire today called Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
300
The answer to D + C =
in Roman Numerals.
What is 600?
300
A leader in the Roman Republic who gained power by force.
What is a Tyrant?
300
Conquered nations of the Roman Empire could keep their own beliefs as long as they followed these three rules.
What was honor the emperor as a god, give the Roman gods and goddesses their due respect, and pay their taxes to Rome?
300
This emperor built a wall in England to keep out invaders and create a border for the Northern part of the Empire.
Who was Emperor Hadrian?
300
This mountain range runs down the middle of Italy and is also called the "spine."
What are the Apennines?
400
Under this emperor, the first official campaign against the Christians began in AD 64. He was suspected of setting the City of Rome on fire.
Who was Nero?
400
An ordinary citizen of the Roman Republic.
What is a Plebian?
400
The most powerful part of the government which mirrors our own United States of America's Legislative Branch of government, proposing and voting on new laws.
What is the Senate?
400
The last of the "good emperors" who chose his son Commodus to follow him.
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
400
This mountain range served as a "great divide" between Italy and the rest of Northern Europe.
What are the Alps?
500
This person gave a last-ditch effort to strengthen the Roman Empire by fortifying the army, the borders, and reforming the tax laws. He proposed dividing the empire into the Eastern and the Western Empire.
Who was Emperor Diocletian?
500
A person in the Ancient Roman Republic that was appointed to rule six months in times of emergency, with all powers of a king.
What is a Dictator?
500
Four of the eight tribes that invaded the Western Empire during the final fall of Rome
Who were the Vandals, Visigoths, Huns, Anglos, Saxons, Jutes, Franks, and Lombards?
500
This famous Eastern Roman Emperor made it illegal to persecute Christians any longer.
Who was Emperor Constantine?
500
The city which Hannibal came from during the Punic Wars.