Rome geography
Today Rome is what country?
Italy
Who were the twin brothers who found Rome in 753 BC?
Romulus and Remus
Who was Rome's dictator that was murdered by members of the senate?
Julius Caesar
Who won the Punic Wars?
Rome
What was 200 years of peace in the Roman Empire called?
Pax Romana.
The Roman Empire surrounded what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
Who threw the twin brothers, who founded Rome, into the Tiber River?
Rhea bore the twins Romulus and Remus, fathered by the war god Mars.
Who was the first emperor of Rome and was also Julius Caesar's adopted son? Bonus +100: Who did he rule with before he became Emperor?
Augustus
Who did Rome fight in the Punic Wars?
the Carthaginian (Punic) empire
Who was the ruler who started the 200 years of Roman Peace?
military forces
What continent was Egypt found?
Africa and Asia
Who saved the twin boys, who founded Rome, from the Tiber River?
a shepard
Who was the Emperor who went mad? Many blamed him for starting the great fire of Rome in 64 AD, and fiddled while it burned.
Emperor Nero
Why was the 1st Punic War Started?
to establish control over the strategic islands of Corsica and Sicily.
What did soldiers do during times of peace?
spend their days training at either their home station or other locations around the world.
On what continent was the city of Carthage found?
Africa
Who was killed when the twins, who founded Rome, couldn't decide where to build their city? Bonus +100: Who killed him?
Romulus killed Remus
Who was the first Christian Emperor in the Roman Empire?
Constantine the Great
Who crossed the Alps with elephants and horses to surprise the Romans during the 2nd Punic War?
Hannibal
Name two reasons why the Roman Empire fell.
Corruption, the division of the empire, and invasion by Germanic tribes
After what country was the border of the Western and Eastern Empires?
near the Bay of Kotor, which was then called Risan bay
Who was the father of the twins who founded Rome?
a human mother and the god of war, Mars.
After 509 BC, what type of government did Rome have? Bonus +100: What made this type of government different from what they had before?
representative democracy
In a civil war, who did Romans fight against?
Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey), respectively.
Which Roman Empire ended 476 AD?
Byzantine Empire