Geography
Because of where it was built, this city was known as the City of Seven Hills.
Rome
According to Roman mythology, Rome's founders Romulus and Remus were raised by which kind of animal?
She-wolf.
This language of the Romans went on to influence other "romance languages" like Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian.
Latin
The father of the first emperor of Rome who was declared "dictator for life."
Julius Caesar
The building in which Roman citizens enjoyed entertainment such as gladiator fights and chariot races.
Colosseum
Rome is located on this peninsula.
Italy/Italian peninsula
Rome stole most of its gods from this ancient culture.
Greece
Aqueducts
The official name of Rome's civil law (hint: it was named after what it was written on).
Law of the Twelve Tables
The long woolen garment edged in Tyrian purple and worn by male citizens in Rome.
Toga
The mountains to the north of Rome over which Hannibal traveled with his Carthaginian elephants.
Alps
By the end of the Roman Republic, the Roman economy ran almost exclusively on the backs on these people/this institution.
Slaves/Slavery
The following are all features of which Roman achievement?
Everyone had the right to equal treatment under the law.
People were considered innocent until they were proven guilty.
People should only be punished for their actions, not their thoughts.
Unfair laws could be overturned.
Civil Law
A famous Roman dictator who returned to his farm after saving Rome without seeking further power; George Washington was often compared to him.
Cincinnatus
True or False: In Roman society, the lower. classes were called patricians; the upper classes, descended from the first 100 families of Rome, were called plebeians.
The river that runs through the city of Rome is called the ________.
Tiber
The Roman empire had a "uniform currency," which meant that everyone used the same ______.
Coins/money
The Romans were able to use this architectural feature to create domes and vaults.
Arch
SPQR, or "Senatus Populusque Romanus" is the motto of the Roman Republic. What does it mean?
The Senate and People of Rome
The colloquial name of the policy by which a government can keep a society from rebelling by providing them with two things (also the name of the policy).
"Bread and circuses".
Rome's enemy across the Mediterranean Sea against whom the Punic Wars were fought and the phrase "Carthago delenda est" was coined.
Carthage
Romans were able to travel and trade peacefully with other nations on safe and protected roads from about 27 BC to 180 AD because of this era in Roman history.
Pax Romana
This doctor invented the theory of the humors and fled Rome during the Antonine Plague.
Galen
1) These rulers served one year terms during the Roman Republic, two men a time.
2). These rulers were given unlimited power in the Roman Republic, but only six months at a time.
1) Consuls
2) Dictators
This word describes the system used in families whereby the family (and society in general) was led by men.
Patriarchy