Geography
What land formation is the city of Rome located on?
Peninsula
What happened to Christians in Rome up until 380 AD?
Christians were executed, forced to fight in arenas, and made slaves until 380 AD when Christianity was made the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
What commonly used practice did the Romans invent?
Architectural
Who had the most power in early Rome?
Patricians.
What job was most common in Rome?
Farming.
True or false: Rome began around 500 BC.
True, because the Roman Republic began in 509 BC. Although the Roman Empire began in 27 BC.
True or false, support for pagan religions had ceased in 380 AD when Christianity was made the official state religion of Rome.
False. Although Christianity was made the official state religion of Rome, support for pagan religions was still apparent until 391 AD.
What material did the Roman's invent that is still commonly used today?
Concrete
What percentage of Roman citizens were Plebeians?
95%
What phrase was coined at the height of the Roman Empire in 100 AD?
"All roads lead to Rome"
What Roman city was buried in 19-25 feet of ash and pumice after the 79 AD Mt. Vesuvius eruption?
Pompeii
What was the name of one of Mars's sons?
Romulus or Remus.
What modern-day war crime did the Byzantine Empire create?
Napalm/Greek Fire.
(Protocol III Of the Convention on CCW bans the use of Napalm in citizen-dense areas, though does not ban use against legitimate military targets.)
What form of government did Romans evolve from?
They evolved from a monarchy to a Republic.
When did the Roman Empire fall?
The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, and the Eastern Roman Empire fell in 1453 AD.
What is a nickname for Rome?
City Of Seven Hills
What did Romans invent for water transport
extensive aqueduct systems
Who had the power to elect tribunes?
Plebeians
What was the average home like?
Not terrible, but not good.
What was the name of the city which acted as the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople/Byzantium, which is known today as Istanbul.
What was Mithraism?
A very secretive cult.
What percentage of the English language is derived or influenced by Latin?
~29% of the English language is directly from Latin, and another ~29% is from French, which is a Romance language from which 70-80% is from Latin. and on top of that, ~60% of the English dictionary is from Latin, which means ~58% of the English language is from Latin, and ~60% of the dictionary is from Latin. (tl;dr, ~29% or ~58%)
When was is agreed upon that laws were to be published on tablets?
451 BC.
What's the difference between highly skilled slaves, like doctors and accountants, and common slaves?
highly skilled slaves could earn money.