The name of a famous and ambitious Roman general who declared himself Dictator for life.
Who is Julius Caesar.
100
The name of the river running through the City of Rome.
What is the Tiber River.
200
Who was the apostle to the Gentiles
Who was Paul
200
A wealthy landowner and office holder during the Republic.
What is a Patrician.
200
Who were the top two rulers during the Roman Republic which were elected and shared power equally.
Who were Consuls
200
The name of the First Roman Emperor.
Who is Caesar Augustus.
200
The name of the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople
300
The answer to D + C =
in Roman Numerals
What is 600
300
A leader who gains power by force.
What is a Tyrant
300
The Romans feared that Jesus would do this?
What was raise an army to lead a revolt to take back Judea from the Romans.
300
This emperor built a wall in England to keep out invaders and create a border for the Northern part of the Empire.
Who is Hadrian.
300
This mountain range runs down the middle of Italy and in also called the "spine."
What are the Apennines
400
Under this emperor, the first official campaign against the Christians began in AD. 64. He was suspected of setting the City of Rome on fire.
Who was Nero.
400
During the Birth of Christianity, what were two things the Romans feared and held against the Christians?
What were not giving the emperor his proper honor and not honoring the Roman gods and goddesses.
400
The most powerful part of the gorernment which mirrors our own legislative branch of government, proposing and voting on new laws.
What is the Senate.
400
The last of the "good emperors" who chose his son Commodus to follow him.
Who was Marcus Aurelius.
400
The mountain range served as a "great divide" between Italy and the rest of Europe.
What are the Italian Alps.
500
This person gave a last-ditch effort to strengthen the Roman Empire by fortifying the army, the borders, and reforming the tax laws. He proposed dividing the empire into the Eastern and the Western Empire.
Who was Diocletian.
500
Name three architectural legacies the Romans were famous for.
The Aqueducts, the Collesium, The Pantheon, The Arch, The Apian Way Road System.
500
Name five of the eight tribes that invaded the Western Empire during the final fall of Rome
Who are the Vandals, Visigoths, Huns, Anglos (or Angles), Saxons, Jutes, Franks, Lombards
500
The emperor of the Eastern Empire who outlawed the killing of Christians.
Who was Emperor Constantine (reigned as emperor
from 312 AD-337 AD)
500
The city which Hannibal came from during the Punic Wars.