Buildings
Vespasian built this structure, used for gladiatorial combat, races, and public executions.
What is the Colosseum?
This emperor was so unpopular that after his death from illness (and perhaps some poisoning) there were calls in Rome to "throw his body into the Tiber".
Who is Tiberius?
Hadrian put down the second Roman-Jewish war, which also went by this name.
What is the Bar Kokhba Revolt?
This emperor divided the empire into the Tetrarchy, with an Augustus and a Caesar for the east and west.
Who is Diocletian?
This emperor allegedly fiddled while Rome burned (and then blamed it on the Christians)
Who is Nero?
This emperor built a wall across northern England to keep out the Scots.
Who is Hadrian?
This emperor, marked by his interest in war, was assassinated by one of his guards while stopping on the side of the road to relieve himself.
Who is Caracalla?
This emperor prosecuted the last part of the Jewish-Roman war, which his predecessor had also fought in.
Who is Titus?
Emperor Augustus reformed this elite unit of the Roman military, turning them into emperor's personal bodyguards and intelligence agents.
What is the Praetorian Guard?
Commodus thought he was the incarnation of this divine hero.
Who is Hercules?
This emperor built a supply bridge over the Danube that was 3,700 feet long.
Who is Trajan?
This emperor, the epitome of Roman decadence, was eventually stabbed to death in a manner similar to Julius Caesar.
Who is Caligula?
Not wanting to be in Rome very often, this emperor spent much of his time on the front lines of the Marcomannic Wars, fighting Germanic tribes who were fleeing the Goths.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This emperor named his adoptive brother co-emperor. A first in the history of the empire.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
This emperor stirred up tensions between the empire and the Jewish people after he demanded that he be worshiped as a god.
Who is Caligula?
This emperor built a temple to Jupiter on the temple mount, which led to the Bar Kokhba Revolt.
Who is Hadrian?
Having angered even some of his family members with his crackdowns on corruption and impiety, this emperor was stabbed to death by conspirators in his bedchamber.
Who is Domitian?
Despite not looking like a promising emperor at first, this emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty conquered Britain.
Who is Claudius?
Although it had come to mean less by the time he came to power, this emperor granted Roman citizenship to all free men in the empire (mostly so he could tax them more to fund his wars).
Who is Caracalla?
Caracalla was obsessed with Alexander the Great and, while visiting Alexandria, had the disciples of this philosopher killed because of a legend that he had poisoned Caracalla's hero.
Who is Aristotle?
This emperor surrounded Jerusalem with a wall while besieging it during the first Jewish-Roman War.
Who is Titus?
Known for his enjoyment of sport and of killing things in the Colosseum, Commodus was killed in this unconventional way.
What is strangled to death by a professional wrestler?
Caracalla went to war with these foreign people (possibly as part of his attempt to emulate his hero).
Who are the Parthians?
After devastating Jerusalem in the second Roman-Jewish war, Hadrian barred Jews from entering the city and gave Judea this new name.
What is Syria Palaestina?
Caracalla carried out this effort to rid the empire of images of his brother and co-emperor Geta.
What is the damnatio memoriae or "damnation of memory"?