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100
Rome is located on which peninsula?
What is the Italian Peninsula?
100
This civilization had a heavy influence on Roman mythology.
What is Greece?
100
This kingdom to the north of Rome originally ruled the city with a king.
What is Eturia (Etruscans)?
100
During the Punic Wars, Rome fought against this enemy from north Africa.
What is Carthage?
100
This name was given to Rome's first written code of laws.
What are the Twelve Tables?
200
The city of Rome was built on the banks of this river.
What is the Tiber?
200
These are examples of types of sacrifices Romans would have offered to Jupiter or Mars.
What are food (bread, cheese, wine, fruit) and animals (sheep, pigs, oxen, cows)
200
Members of this social class were referred to as the "common people."
What is plebeian?
200
This famous Carthaginian general marched elephants over the Alps during the second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
200
Rome fought Etruscans, Gauls (who burned down the capital city), Samnites, and Greeks as they conquered this area of land.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
300
This mountain range isolates Rome by cutting off the Italian peninsula from Europe.
What is the Alps?
300
Roman Christians had to endure this for decades because their religion was not legal.
What is persecution?
300
This form of government allows people to choose elected representatives to govern and was first established by patricians.
What is a republic?
300
Julius Caesar fought this Roman general in a three-year civil war.
Who is Pompey?
300
Julius Caesar died at the hands of this group of people.
What is the Senate?
400
Rome's location in the middle of the Mediterranean allowed them to easily control this economic activity.
What is trade?
400
This Roman general and emperor marched his army under a Christian symbol.
Who is Constantine?
400
This event gave plebeians more power over Roman politics.
What is the Conflict of Orders?
400
The republic had officially ended when this person was named dictator for life.
Who is Julius Caesar?
400
This means the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism? [BONUS: what do we call the worship of only one god?]
500
Under Caesar Augustus, the borders of the Roman empire were extended to these physical features.
What are natural barriers?
500
This act of Constantine made it safe for Christians to worship openly without fear of persecution.
What is the Edict of Milan?
500
This plebeian representative had the power to veto (or block) anything happening in the Senate.
What is a tribune?
500
This person was Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son whose name later changed to Caesar Augustus.
Who is Octavian?
500
This Christian symbol supposedly helped Constantine's army win the battle at Milvian Bridge.
What is a chi-rho? ☧