Geography and Mythology
This was the river Romulus and Remus floated down as infants... Almost sounds like a big striped cat.
What is the Tiber River?
What is a Republic?
The Phalanx formation was used heavily by the Roman military. Funnily enough though, the Romans, along with many other things, borrowed the Phalanx from this civilization.
Pompey, Crassus, and this man served as Rome's First Triumvirate.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Let the games begin! This structure would be the host of many gladiator fights and mock naval battles for thousands of Romans to sit back and enjoy.
What is the Colosseum?
This mountain range is to the north of Rome and provides them with a natural border.
What are the Alps?
This was the title given to wealthy landowners in Rome.
What are Patricians?
Calling all Legions!... Would be a call of 3,000-6,000 Roman these during a time of war.
Who are soldiers?
Caesar crossed this river, defying the Senate's order. Nowadays saying you crossed this river signifies a point of no return.
What is the Rubicon?
This engineering feat brought fresh water into Roman cities.
What are Aqueducts?
According to myth, this was the father of Romulus and Remus, also known as the Roman God of War, and nowadays associated with this planet next to Earth.
Who is Mars?
In the Tribune of the Plebs, Plebeians could do this power. This power nowadays is usually associated when the President of the United States does not like a law that lands on his desk.
What is veto?
This Carthaginian general led an army that included elephants against Rome in the 2nd Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
After Caesar's assassination, this man succeeded him and led Rome into a Golden Age.
Who is Octavian/Augustus?
This was the name given to the period of 150 years of peace and prosperity during the Roman Empire. Not to be confused with the episode title of season one, episode 6 of HBO's hit series The Sopranos.
What is Pax Romana?
Name one of the three seas that surround the Italian Peninsula.
What is/are the Mediterranean, Adriatic, or Tyrrhenian?
The Roman Republic had a six-month limit on a dictator's rule to prevent from having this.
What is absolute power?
Spain and North Africa were just two of the many territories Rome gained during this series of wars.
What are the Punic Wars?
Something feels off about this coin. Probably because Rome did this to them which led to inflation.
What is dilute the coins or use less gold in the coins?
What is Constantinople?
According to Myth, Rome was founded when Romulus did this to his brother, Remus.
What is killing Remus?
The Conflict of the Orders said one of these people from Rome's lower class had to be a consul.
What is a Plebeian?
Of the 3 Punic Wars, this is Mr. Mahoney's favorite.
What is the 2nd?
Name one of the reasons why Rome fell.
What are overexpansion, mercenary armies, inflation, instability, spread of Christianity, or invasions of foreign invaders
Virgil's The Aeneid tells the story of the founding of this city.
What is Rome?