Geography
Many of Italy's ancient cities were built on top of these.
What are hills?
Caesar's adopted son Octavian.
Who is Augustus?
One Etruscan event adopted by the Romans were chariot races and this.
What was slave fighting.
To overule
What is veto?
Languages developed from Latin.
What are romance languages?
Rome had this many periods of expansion.
What are 4.
General who tried to capture Rome.
Who was Hannibal?
What was Rome?
A form of government with elected leaders.
What is republic.
A legal system based on a written code of laws
What is civil law?
The society that developed in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire was called this.
Trojan hero who's roots can be traced to the beginning of Rome.
Who is Aeneas?
Place where gladiator fights were held.
What was the Colosseum?
One of the two chief leaders who commanded the military.
What is consul.
Rulers with absolute power.
What is a dictator?
The island region to the west of Italy. The boot is kicking this island.
What is Sicily?
The first emperor of Rome.
Who was Augustus?
Place where chariot races were held.
What is circus maximus?
A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Republic.
What is the Senate?
A raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities
What is an aqueduct?
The region directly north of Italy/Rome.
What is Gaul?
The Roman empire became too big, so this emperor split it into 2 halves.
Who is Diocletian?
This group captured Constantinople in 1453 bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?
An official of the Roman Republic elected by the Plebeians to protect their rights.
What is a tribune?
One of the common people in the Roman Republic.
what is a plebeian?