These mountains form the geographical backbone of Italy.
What are the Appenines?
100
The wealthy class of Roman citizens.
What are the patricians?
100
After the Republic crumbled, Rome's next form of government was this.
What is a dictatorship?
100
The name for the special leader who was, according to Jewish belief, to be sent by God to guide His people and set up God's rule on Earth.
What is the Messiah?
100
Took elephants across the Alps to fulfill his promise to his father to always be an enemy of Rome.
Who was Hannibal?
200
This fertile plain allowed Romans to grow enough food to feed its rapidly growing population.
What is Latium?
200
These elected officials worked to gain rights for the plebians.
What are the tribunes?
200
This great leader started as a consul, then became the military governor of Gaul before becoming the most powerful man in the world.
Who was Julius Caesar?
200
Jesus often taught in these simple stories with layers of meaning in them.
What are parables?
200
This foreign queen helped Julius Caesar win the civil war in Rome.
Who is Cleopatra?
300
In 509BC, wealthy Roman families threw out the king from this area to the north.
What is Etruria (or the Etruscans)?
300
These powerful leaders, who formed one of the three branches of Rome's government, served as the army's commanders and the city's most powerful judges.
What are the consuls?
300
During the Pax Romana, what massive engineering feat enabled communication with all parts of the empire?
What is the construction of 50,000 miles of roads?
300
This apostle, though not one of the original 12, was the main spreader of the Good News.
Who is St. Paul?
300
The name of Augustus before he was Augustus, the leader whose reign began the Pax Romana.
Who is Octavian?
400
These impressive structures, built during the Pax Romana, carried water from the mountains into the city of Rome.
What are aqueducts?
400
In 264BC, the Punic Wars began when Roman and Carthaginian forces fought over this island.
What is Sicily?
400
Gladiators often fought to the death here.
What is the Colosseum?
400
These two seas, both smaller than the Mediterranean, are both featured in Bible stories.
What are the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee?
400
Roman general who finally defeated Carthage, once and for all.
Who is Scipio?
500
This impressive temple honored all the gods and goddesses of the Roman world.
What is the Pantheon?
500
The final, decisive battle in the Punic War was fought at this African site in 202BC.
What is Zama?
500
When this mountain blew its top in 79AD, the city of Pompeii was buried in ash.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
500
The title of "pope" comes from the Latin word meaning this.
What is father?
500
Legend has it that this boy killed his twin brother in a fight about what their new city should be named.