Ancient Rome 1
A most powerful governing branch in Rome.
What is the Senate?
Nero persecuted and killed people from this group.
Who were the Christians?
False teaching divided this group.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
These were used to promote trade, exchange cultural ideas, and spread the gospel.
What were the Roman Roads?
This man traveled throughout Galilee teaching and healing.
Who was Jesus?
It is bordered by three seas.
What is Italy?
This ruler divided the Empire, keeping the Eastern half and appointing a ruler for the Western half.
Who was Diocletian?
This helped to contribute to the decline of the Roman Empire.
What is ambitious generals, financial strain, or lack of respect for human life?
The Roman Empire was weakened by soldiers doing this.
What is giving their allegiance to their officers rather than to the empire?
The Etruscans made these improvements to Roman life.
What are paved roads and a sewage system?
The plebeians were able to see these written down so they could be familiar with them.
What are the Laws?
Almost three thousand people repented and were baptized on this day in history.
What is Pentecost?
True happiness in this life can be found if people are free from fear was the belief of this group of people.
Who were the Epicurians?
Hannibal led his soldiers and war elephants through the Alps to make a surprise attack on Rome in this war.
What is the Second Punic War?
Two patricians served with equal authority in place of the king to manage affairs of the government, command the Roman Army, and serve as supreme judges.
What were consuls?
Romans developed a ship that dropped a plank with a spiked tip in this war.
What is the First Punic War?
This group believed that fate governs all things.
What were the Stoics?
This city used its own citizens and people in its armies.
What is Rome?
This group was the wealthy ruling class.
What were the patricians?
This is the main architectural feature of the Colosseum.
What is the arch?
This calendar is based on the birth of Jesus and adds one day to February every four years.
What is the Gregorian?
A period of peace and prosperity under Octavian.
What is Pax Romana?
The triumvirate included Crassus, Pompey, and this man.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Plebeians were eventually allowed to marry into this group of people.
Who were the patricians?
This city hired foreign mercenaries to fight in their army.
Who was Carthage?