Vocabulary
War and Peace
When in Rome
Hodge Podge
Just For Fun
100
The rapid rise of prices
What is inflation?
100
The basic military unit in the Roman army.
What is a legion?
100
Romans shared the Italian peninsula with others, including these people, who lived mostly north of Rome.
Who were the Etruscans?
100
These were skilled riders who fought fierce battles to dislodge the Germanic peoples.
Who were the Huns?
100
The name of Bart Simpson's saxophone playing sister.
What is Lisa?
200
A picture made from chips of colored stone or glass.
What is a mosaic?
200
Rome and Carthage clashed in this series of wars.
What are the Punic Wars?
200
This is the most famous domed structure in Rome and a temple that honors the many Roman gods.
What is the Pantheon?
200
The landholding upper class.
Who were patricians?
200
If you were scuba diving off the coast of California, you would be exploring this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
300
A person who dies for his or her beliefs.
What is a martyr?
300
A 200 year span that brought peace, order, unity, and prosperity to Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
300
Italy proved much easier to unify than Greece because of this.
What is geography?
300
The application of science and mathematics to develop useful structures and machines.
What is engineering?
300
One of the two teams currently playing in the World Series of baseball.
Who are the Kansas City Royals or San Francisco Giants?
400
A soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay.
What is a mercenary?
400
The persecution of Christians finally ended when Constantine issued this.
What is the Edict of Milan?
400
These people used verse to satirize, or make fun of, Roman society.
Who were poets?
400
Jewish religion teachers.
What are rabbis?
400
This country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
Who is France?
500
Huge estates bought up by newly wealthy Romans.
What is a latifundia?
500
A Hun leader who embarked on a savage campaign of conquest across Europe.
Who was Attila?
500
Romans referred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum, meaning this.
What is "Our Sea"?
500
Constantinople was the name of the new capital established at this centuries old city.
What is Byzantium?
500
The year the Titanic sank.
What is 1912?
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