Geography
Mythology
Roman Culture
Daily Life
100

What River runs through Rome?

What is the Tiber River?

100

Who was the King of Gods? 

Who is Jupiter? 

100

What is the name for the set of laws which outlined rights and duties of Roman citizens?

What is the Twelve Tables

100

What did wealthy Romans wear?

What are togas

200

What was the volcano that erupted in 79 CE? 

What is Mt. Vesuvius?

200

What liquid was Bacchus the god of, often depicted with vine leaves and grapes on his head?

What is wine? 

200

This 14 year old boy would be the Roman Empire in the West as the city would fall in 476 AD.

Romulus Augustulus

200

Why did thousands of Romans go to the Circus Maximus?

Watch chariot races 

300

What hill was Rome belived to be founded on?

What is Palatine Hill? 

300

Who is the Roman god of the underworld?

Pluto

300

What form of government did Rome have during most of its existence before becoming an empire?

What is the Republic System?

300

What was a typical home for a poor Roman city-dweller?

Apartment/insula

400

Who was Rome named after? 

Who is Romulus(Rome)? 

400

Who was the Roman goddess associated with flowering plants?

Who is Flora?
400

How did Roman sculpture differ from Greek sculpture?

Romans had more realistic portraits from stone.

400

What was a common way to become a Roman slave?

In a war

500

What is the smallest Roman hill?

What is Capotoline Hill

500

In Roman mythology, Aurora was the goddess of which time of day?

What is dawn?
500

The empire in the East that became known as this, would survive long after the city of Rome fell

Who are the Huns?

500

When did a man become a paterfamilias?

When his own father died.