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Emporers
Geography
Punic Wars
Engineering & Technology
The Fall of the Empire
100
Who was it that sentence Jesus to crusifixion?
Pilot
100
At the beginning of the first Punic War, this empire had more territory.
Carthage
100
What is Hannibal's special weapon?
Elephants
100
What was the special ingredient in roman concrete?
Ash from volcanic areas
200
who was Caesars pupil that later stabbed him in the back (literally)
What is Marcus Brutus
200
What was one of the most importent rivers that helped build Rome?
Tiber River
200
What was considered to be Hannibal's secret weapon against the Roman's during the second punic war?
Elephants
200
Who were one of he 2 emperors who constructed the Colosseum
What is Titus and Domitian
200
Who split the Roman empire into two?
Diocletian
300
Who is considered the first emperor of Rome
What is Gaius Octavius (Augustus)
300
what important geographical feature aided hannibal in his surprise attack against the romans
mountains
300
Rome retained its status until ____ AD after the victories of the punic wars.
5 AD
300
What natural resource did the Roman's use to create such durable stone, and bricks
What is volcanic ash
300
What are the two sects of Christianity that formed after the split of the Roman Empire
Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic
400
Which emporer was the first to be assassinated?
Caligula
400
The name of the mountain range down the centre of the Italian peninsula is called...
The Apiennes
400
Who one the battle of Salamis
Athenians + Spartians
400
This material was thought to be a special type of sand, but was really ash from voclanoes.
Pozzolana
400
Part of the reason the empire fell was that Rome incorporated too many _____ into their armies
Foreigners (or barbarians)
500
Roman Emperor to be poisoned by a kind of fungi
Emperor Claudius
500
Po, Arno , Tiber
What was the main river through Rome ?
500
What was the shape of the cross that Emperor Constantine devised?
It was shaped like a "Y"
500
How did emperor Constantine contribute to the fall of the empire? Don't worry mate, you know it
Allowing christainity to florish