Geography
Rome is located in what country?
Romans replaced monarchy with this form of government.
What is a republic?
The Punic wars were against this city-state.
What is Carthage?
Romans developed taste for what during the 2nd and 3rd centuries?
Jesus Christ was a member of this nation of people within the Roman Empire.
What are the Jews?
This river flows through Rome and made the Roman civilization possible
The Tiber River
Upper-class Romans served in this elite council of 300 citizens who had both legislative and executive authority.
What was the Roman Senate?
The Punic Wars were fought in these two places.
What are Rome (Italy) and Carthage (North Africa)?
Romans were first-class engineers who built enduring what?
Roads, Bridges and aqueducts
This follower of Jesus was believed to have led the early Christians as the first bishop of Rome.
Who was Peter?
Italy is a peninsula that juts out into this body of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This lower social class in Rome was represented in government by a popular assembly and by individuals called tribunes.
What are the plebeians?
These large animals were famously marched across the Pyrennes Mountains into Italy.
What are elephants?
They built______ miles worth of roads throughout the empire
50,000
He wrote many letters to new Christian communities that were collected in the New Testament.
Who was the apostle Paul?
Julius Caesar crossed this river in violation of orders from the Senate.
What is the Rubicon River?
This is Rome's first code of law which was adopted in 450 B.C. and posted in the forum for all to see.
What are the Twelve Tables?
who started the second Punic war?
Hannibal. the greatest Carthaginian
Roman sculptors added____, even__________ to the idealized Greek forms
realistic, Unpleasant features
This Roman Emporer legalized Christianity and presided over the important council of bishops held at Nicea in 325 CE.
Who was Constantine?
This mountain range separates Italy from Gaul to the north.
What are the Alps?
This pair of executive officials ran the government and led the army into battle.
What were consuls?
The territory of Carthage became a roman province called--
Africa
The city of Rome's many aqueducts supplied_________
One million people with water
Perhaps the most famous Christian theologian of all time, this Roman citizen from North Africa wrote a book called The City of God and is often credited with articulating the doctrine of original sin.
Who was St. Augustine?