Geography & Founding
Republic & Society
Wars & Leaders
Daily Life & Culture
Legacy & Fall
100
Italy’s shape resembles this item.
What is a boot?
100
Rome’s traditional founders were these twin brothers.
Who Romulus and Remus?
100
This North African city fought Rome in the Punic Wars.
What is Cathage?
100
Romans honored their gods through prayer and this offering.
What is food?
100
This language is the root of Italian, French, and Spanish.
What is Latin?
200
Italy’s location and climate attracted settlers for these reasons.
What is central location and climate?
200
This was Rome’s first written law code.
What are The Tweleve Tablets?
200
Julius Caesar’s calendar reform created this many months.
What are twelve months?
200
These works used humor to criticize human weaknesses.
What is satire?
200
This group invaded from northern Europe as Rome fell.
Who are the Visgoths?
300
This first major Roman road linked Rome to southeastern Italy.
What is the Appian Way?
300
This group formed Rome’s ruling class and included great landowners.
Who are the Patricians?
300
Rome’s first emperor, Octavian, took power in this year.
What is 27 BC or BCE?
300
Roman builders used arches to create this curved ceiling.
What is an arch?
300
In the United States, Roman ideas influenced this form of government.
What is a republic?
400
This city became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
400
Plebeians were the majority and included these workers and landholders.
Who are the working-class citizens such as farmers, craftsmen, laborers, and merchants?
400
Rome fought the Punic Wars against this power.
Who is Cathage?
400
This arena fighter led a major slave rebellion.
Who is Spartacus?
400
Invasions, political confusion, and these economic problems contributed to Rome’s fall.
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
500
This empire, also called the Byzantine Empire, lasted until Constantinople fell in 1453.
What is the Eastern Roman Empire?
500
Romans guaranteed the rule of law for these people, but applied different laws to foreigners
Who are Roman Citizens?
500
This emperor’s reign began a long period of peace and prosperity.
Who is Augustus?
500
This famous church was built under Justinian and became a major example of Byzantine architecture.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
500
The Justinian Code influenced this important area of society in many countries.
What is a legal system?