The Beginning of Ancient Rome
This was around the year that Rome was founded.
What was 800 B.C.?
An open area in a city filled with public buildings, temples, and markets.
What is a forum?
He was the leading Roman god.
Who was Jupiter?
The worship of many gods.
Because Romans invented and used this material, their buildings were strong and have lasted for thousands of years.
What was concrete?
Coming back to life.
What is resurrection?
This was the river that Rome was founded on.
What was The Tiber River?
This is a form of government where citizens have the right to vote and elect officials who represent them. Ancient Rome and The United States have this form of government.
What is a republic?
The first emperor of Rome.
Who was Augustus Caesar?
The language that the Roman people wrote and spoke.
What is Latin?
This type of struture brought fresh water into Roman cities.
What was an aquaduct?
A long period of peace and prosperity in The Roman Empire between the Emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius. 30 B.C. to 180 A.D.
What was The Pax Romana?
These were the twins who founded the city of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
These two men were the most powerful government officials in the Roman Republic. They served for one year together, and could only be elected every ten years.
Who or what were the consuls?
His life and death brought about the destruction of The Roman Republic and the beginning of The Roman Empire. He was assinated by The Roman Senate on March 15th, 44 B.C.
Who was Julius Caesar?
What is: Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese?
This is the building where the chariot races took place.
What was a circus?
Ritual clensing by plunging into water.
What is baptism?
The society of Ancient Rome was split between two main groups of people. The original senators who were powerful landowners, and basically everyone else.
Who were the patricians and the plebeians?
This was the legislative government body of The Roman Republic, between 100 to 900 men, who shared power with the consuls.
What was The Roman Senate?
The last Roman king who was overthrown in 509 B.C.
Who was Tarquin the Proud?
The basic unit of a Roman army.
What is a legion?
This is the building where games were played, concerts played, and theater was performed.
What was an amphitheater?
A heartfelt change in one's opinions or beliefs.
What is a conversion?
He was said to be the father of the founders of Rome.
Who was the god Mars?
These were the names of four Roman god.
Who were: Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, Minerva, Uranus?
He became the first Christian Roman Emperor.
Who was Constatine the Great?
Elected officials who enforced the laws of The Roman Republic.
What were magistrates?
The town that was covered in ash by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
What was Pompeii?
The first four books of the Christian New Testament.
What are The Gospels?
The year that the last king of Rome was overthrown.
What was 509 B.C.?
These were the wars that were fought between Rome and its greatest rival the City of Carthage.
What were The Punic Wars?
One of the greatest generals in history, he attacked the Roman Republic in 218 B.C. from his home city of Carthage, Ancient Rome's greatest rival for control of The Mediterranean Sea.
Who was Hannibal?
In this type of society men rule everything, starting with their families, and the people trace their origins through their male ancestors.
What is a patriarchal society?
This was the second capital of The Roman Empire built by The Emperor Constatine.
What was Constantinople?
Formal letters, written to churches in The New Testament. Most were written by St. Paul.
What are The Epistles?
The last Roman king.
Who was Tarquin The Proud?
People who die for their beliefs.
What are martyrs?
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
A design formed with small tiles of glass, stone, or pottery.
This is the year that the Western Roman Empire ended.
What was 476 A.D.?
He was the person most primary in spreading the belief of Christianity throughout The Roman Empire.
Who was St. Paul?