Geography
This city in Italy became the center of an empire.
What is Rome?
According to legend these twin brothers were raised by a wolf and founded the city of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
In this kind of government citizens choose their leaders.
What is a republic?
This major religion was spread throughout the Roman Empire.
What is a Christianity?
This is the name given to the period of peace created by Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
These mountains are in the North of Italy.
What are the Alps?
This group of Roman citizens were men who farmed, or traded or were craftsmen.
Who were the plebians?
This group was the oldest and most powerful branch of the republic.
What was the Senate?
The Romans built a lot of these to connect their empire,
What are roads?
The center of life in Rome, where people met.
What was the Forum?
Rome was built on the plains of this river.
What is the Tiber River?
They were members of Romes noble families.
Who were the patricians?
When Julius Caesar took total power in Rome he became one of these.
What is a dictator?
Many modern languages, grew out of this language of ancient Rome.
What is Latin?
Was killed by his brother Romulus.
Who is Remus?
These mountains run down the middle of Italy.
What are the Apennine Mountains?
He attacked Rome with an army and used elephants.
Who was Hannibal?
The citizen assembly elected these to protect the rights of plebeian.
Who were the tribunes?
The use of domes and arches were two of the achievements of Rome in this science of building.
What is architecture?
These were people who fought each other in arenas.
Who were the gladiators?
This big Island is just South of Italy.
What is Sicily?
He was a 25 year old general who defeated Hannibal.
Who was Scipio?
These two men served as Rome's army commanders and most powerful judges.
Who were the consuls?
The Eastern part of the Roman empire would last another 1000 years. It was name after the city of Byzantium.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
This huge arena so big that fake sea battles could be fought inside it.
What was the Colosseum?