Path to the Roman Empire
Philosophy (I)
Architecture G&R
Mythology
Geography
100
This man was the posthumously adopted son of Julius Caesar.
Who is Octavian?
100
This man is called the 'first philosopher'
Who is Thales?
100
Both Greeks and Romans had these, but the Romans built theirs 'free-standing', while the Greeks built theirs into a mountainside.
What are amphitheatres?
100
This is the first "god" in Hesiod's Theogony.
Who/What is Chaos?
100
This is the name of the Sea between Greece and Turkey (Asia Minor).
What is the Aegean?
200
This man was the second Emperor of Rome.
Who is Tiberius?
200
This man said that everything came from water.
Who is Thales?
200
The wall across Britain was known as this man's wall.
Who is Hadrian?
200
These are the names of the main characters in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, respectively
Who are Achilles and Odysseus
200
Plato said of them, they "sit like frogs around a pond"
What are the Greek poleis/islands?
300
These three men formed the first triumvirate.
Who are Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus?
300
These were the official charges against Socrates.
What is corrupting the young and inventing new gods?
300
This engineering innovation allowed Romans to have running water.
What are aquaducts? BONUS: This is how they worked.
300
This is the only Etruscan King of Rome who was not a Tarquin.
Who is Servius Tullius
300
The name of this body of water translates literally into "the middle of the Earth"
What is the Mediterranean?
400
These were the two official offices that Octavian selected/elected for himself when he became emperor
What are the Tribunate and Imperium? BONUS: This is why they were significant titles to hold.
400
This man said, "if horses or oxen had hands and could draw or make statues, horses would represent the forms of the gods like horses, oxen like oxen"
Who is Xenophanes?
400
After a great fire ravaged rome, this emperor built his own pleasure palace on the ruins and blamed the Christians for the fire.
Who is Nero?
400
This the Archeologist and Classicist who claimed he found the mask of Atreus.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
400
This is the only island off the course of Italy that does not begin with an 'S'
What is Corcisa?
500
This man established the Eagle as the standard of the Roman Legions
Who is Marius?
500
This man was called the greatest philosophy by Plutarch, because he introduced Greek philosophy to the most people.
Who is Alexander the Great (tutored by Aristotle)?
500
This building provided a very literal division between 'upper' and 'lower' classes in Roman society.
What is the Colosseum
500
This is the myth whence the name for the ancient Minoan civilization comes
What is the myth of King Minos and the Minotaur/Labyrinth?
500
The main difference between the geography of the first Greek and Roman civilizations from their Middle Eastern counterparts (Meopotamia Egypt) is this:
What is they are founded in mountainous areas close to large bodies of water, and not (just) on rivers?
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