Rome
The title for Rulers after the Fall of the Roman Republic.
What is Emperor?
The Roman leader who was assassinated on March 15, 44 BCE?
Who was Julius Ceasar?
These carried water to the Roman people.
What were aqueducts?
Hannibal came this way for a sneak attack on Rome.
What is Over the Alps?
This purpose of government is to create and enforce the laws.
What is promote the rule of law?
How long Pax Romana lasted.
What is 200 years?
A Carthage General brought these animals with him to attack Rome.
What are elephants?
The place where boys had to serve in the Army when they turned 7.
What is Sparta?
The Roman Empire controlled land surrounding this large sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This type of government existed in Athens,
CLUE: Monarchy, Democracy, or Oligarchy
What is Democracy?
Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried two Roman cities. This was one of them.
What was Pompeii (or Herculaneum)?
Many rulers of the Roman Empire cared mostly about this.
What is themselves, their wealth or their power?
It means to confirm or give support to a claim.
What is corroborate?
The name of the island that looks like a football at the bottom of the boot that is Italy.
What is Sicily?
Where Mrs. Reynolds' son went to middle school.
What is White Oak Middle School?
How Rome was able to build its first boats for a Navy.
What is: They captured and copied one of the Carthage boats?
A famous woman who made friends with powerful men such as Julius Caesar.
Who was Cleopatra?
This country was destroyed by Rome. It no longer exists.
What is Carthage?
This continent was the location of Carthage.
What is Africa?
One place would have been better to live --- Athens or Sparta.
What is Athens?
Athens was a Democracy.
A Roman amphitheater where Gladiators fought. It is still standing today.
What is the Colosseum?
(Mr. Mackenzie has been there.)
This Roman general defeated Hannibal in his homeland -- ending the 2nd Punic War.
Who was Scipio?
Before it was an empire, Rome was this political unit -- similar to Athens and Sparta.
What is a City-State?
These were a great help to empires for protection from invasion, control of trade etc.
What are mountains?
(Hannibal learned that the hard way against Rome. So did the Gauls and Germanic groups. Also think of the Great Wall of China and the Inca Empire.)
The Roman Government did this when it built more than 50,000 roads.
What is Provide Public Services?