Geography
The modern-day country Rome is located in.
What is Italy?
The wealthy (aristocratic) class.
What are the patricians?
The number of Punic Wars there were.
What is three?
This statesman and general was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire. He was eventually assassinated by the senators (including his close friend) and thus unsuccessful in a long-lasting reign as emperor of Rome.
Who was Caesar?
This statesman and general was the adopted nephew of Caesar. He learned from his uncle and became a successful harbinger of Rome's golden age (Pax Romana).
Who was Augustus?
The island that Rome gains during the first Punic War (it is right off the coast of Italy)
What is Sicily?
The class of poor masses/farmers.
What are plebeians?
The two sides in the Punic Wars.
Who were Rome and Carthage?
Caesar is killed by this figure.
Who was Brutus?
Augustus is also known by this name.
What is Octavian?
The body of water that Rome takes over as it becomes an empire.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The gladiator who unites 70,000 slaves and leads them in an uprising.
Who was Sparticus?
The Carthaginian who led elephants over the mountain range and almost defeated Rome in the Second Punic War.
Who was Hannibal?
Caesar was known for putting together the first triumvirate. These are the two other members.
Who were Pompey the Great & Crassus?
Octavian Augustus is part of the second triumvirate. These two men are also part of it.
Who were Antony and Lepidus?
The civilization in North Africa that Rome fights the Punic Wars against.
What is Carthage?
This group of patricians believed in appealing to the masses politically (Caesar was one of them)
The boats Rome used with planks to allow hand-to-hand combat even on the water.
The region that Caesar concurs early in his career.
What is Gaul (France)?
Augustus defeats Antony and Cleopatra at this battle.
What is the Battle of Actium?
The mountain range Hannibal crosses with elephants during the Second Punic War.
What are the Alps?
This group of patricians was more conservative politically.
Who were the Optimates?
What Rome did to Carthage after the Third Punic War to ensure Carthage would not rise again.
What is salted the fields?
Translation of "“Alea iacta est!” (as Caesar crosses the Rubicon)
Augustus defeats Caesar's assassins at this battle.
What is the Battle of Philippi?