Roman Emperors
Totalitarian emperor known for rebuilding Rome & bringing order. He persecuted Christians who would not worship him.
Who is Domitian.
Best known as one of the first apologists; his defense of Christianity led to his own beheading. People killed for their faith are now called by his name.
Who is Justin Martyr
The date of the Fall of Jerusalem to the Romans.
What is 70 AD
The tribe that sacked Rome, led by Alaric.
Who are the Goths.
A legendary early king of Britain, much celebrated in literature, which may have originated from an actual chieftain who lived in Wales in the sixth century.
Who is King Arthur.
Popular Roman Emperor known as one of the 5 best emperors; he built extensively and expanded the empires’ boundaries east into Arabia.
Who is Trajan.
Christian bishop fed to the lions in the 3rd persecution; he was not afraid and told Christians not to save him.
Who is Ignatius.
The date that Rome was sacked by a Barbarian tribe.
What is 410 AD.
The name of the two groups of Goths that split after Rome was sacked.
The Ostrogoths and the Visigoths.
The wife of King Arthur.
Who is Guinevere.
Emperor who divided the empire into the East & the West in an attempt to stop the decline of Rome.
Who is Diocletian.
He refused to worship Caesar’s spirit or reject Christ; he was ordered burned at the stake, but his body would not burn, so he was stabbed with a sword.
Who is Polycarp.
The date we normally associate with the "Fall of Rome."
What is 476 AD.
An invading tribe from China and Mongolia that attacked central and eastern Europe.
Who were the Huns.
The legendary sword King Arthur may have received from the Lady of the Lake.
What is Excalibur.
He moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium in the East and issued a document allowing Christians to practice their religion within the empire.
Who is Constantine.
An important Christian teacher who wrote several books and defended the Christians who were blamed for the Fall of Rome in his book City of God.
Who is Augustine of Hippo.
The date Jerome completed the Vulgate (complete Latin translation of the Bible).
What is 405 AD.
The King of the tribe from Mongolia called "the scourge of God”.
Who is Attila the Hun.
The object of the quest that many of the Knights of the Round Table attempted.
The Holy Grail.
Last emperor of the Western Roman Empire; deposed by the Visigoths, thus marking the Fall of Rome. His fall marks the start of the Middle or Dark Ages.
Who is Romulus Augustus.
He wrote the first full translation of the Bible from original Hebrew and Greek texts into Latin, the widely used language of the common people.
Who is Jerome.
The time period that King Arthur was thought to live.
What is the 4th and 5th centuries.
A people of northern Europe, known for their cruelty and destructiveness, who invaded the Roman Empire. They plundered Rome itself in 476 AD.
Who were the Vandals.
A term sometimes applied to the early Middle Ages, the first few centuries after the Fall of Rome, in which the Arthurian legends took place.
What is the Dark Ages.