The Greek colonists brought these 2 crops to early Rome.
What are olive trees (for oil) and grapes (for wine)?
100
Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants during the second Punic War.
Who was Hannibal?
100
He took Rome from a republic to a dictatorship.
Who was Julius Caesar?
100
Large amphitheater where circuses and gladiator battles were held.
What is the Colosseum?
100
Power to vote against something, turn it down.
What is veto?
200
This group of people drained the swamps of the Italian peninsula and contributed to Roman culture and politics.
Who were the Etruscans?
200
Tribe from Gaul and central Europe, defeated by Caesar's army, now mostly in northern France and the British Isles.
Who are the Celts?
200
First "true" emperor of Rome.
Bonus for bother names.
Who was Augustus or Octavian?
200
Large temple dedicated to the Roman deities.
What is the Pantheon?
200
A public speaker.
What is an orator?
300
The seat of Roman government.
What is the Forum?
300
Germanic tribes including Visigoths, Vandals, and Saxons, named this by the Romans because of how they talked.
Who were the Barbarians?
300
Emperor at the height of Rome's glory, power, and wealth.
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
300
A mad-made channel that brings water up to 60 miles from the source.
What is an aqueduct?
300
Religious rules to follow,
What is doctrine?
400
1. This highest, noble class.
2. The working-class.
Bonus: The majority.
What is
1. Patricians.
2. Plebeians.
Bonus: Plebeians.
400
Leader of the Hun invasion of Rome.
Bonus: What modern day country are the Huns from?
Who was Attila?
Bonus: Mongolia.
400
Rome's first Christian emperor.
Who was Constantine?
400
1. Most commonly used language in a place or for a purpose.
2. Rome's was this one.
1. What is lingua franca?
2. What is Latin?
400
Breaking religious rules.
What is heresy?
500
The legendary brothers who founded Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
500
Hellenistic (Greek) astronomer and mathematician who recorded the movements of the planets.
Bonus: To what TWO famous Hellenistic personages was he related?
Who was Ptolemy?
Bonus: Alexander the Great and Cleopatra.
500
Rome's two craziest emperors:
1. Committed incest and torture, appointed his horse as consul, and was killed by a palace guard.
2. According to legend, played the violin as Rome burned.
Who was:
1. Caligula?
2. Nero?
500
Four subjects studied by rich Patrician boys at university.
What is philosophy, geometry, oratory, and astronomy?