Geography
This river flows through the city of Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
The king of the Roman gods.
Who is Jupiter?
The Romans copied and adapted art from this earlier civilization.
What is Greece?
Rome’s government after the monarchy was called this.
What is a republic?
These were the three main social classes in Rome.
What are patricians, plebeians, and slaves?
Rome was built on this many hills.
What are seven hills?
The Roman god of beginnings, gates, and the new year.
Who is Janus?
This Roman general defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama.
Who is Scipio Africanus?
These two officials were elected each year to lead the Roman Republic.
Who are consuls?
Rome fought these three wars for control of the trade-rich western Mediterranean.
What are the Punic Wars?
This sea lies to the west of Italy and was important to Roman trade and war.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Roman goddess of wisdom and war who was part of the Capitoline Triad.
Who is Minerva?
Romans built these public gathering places on hills in cities all across their empire.
What are Capitolia?
This group of wealthy citizens had most of the power in the Senate.
Who are patricians?
Allies of Rome had to pay this and send soldiers.
What are taxes?
This city, once called Byzantium, became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople / Istanbul?
This Roman god delivered messages and wore winged sandals.
Who is Mercury?
This was the first Roman province outside of Italy, gained after the 1st Punic War.
What is Sicily?
Plebeians elected these officials to speak for them and veto bad laws.
Who are Tribunes of the People / Tribunes of the Plebes?
Rome defeated this rich trade city in North Africa.
What is Carthage?
This area of Italy, where Rome began, was named after a group of people.
What is Latium?
The Capitoline Triad included these three gods.
Who are Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva?
This Roman emperor moved the capital to Constantinople and legalized Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
This was the last king of Rome, kicked out in 509 BCE.
Who is Tarquinius Superbus?
This kind of war broke out between rich and poor in Rome.
What is a civil war?