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100
Land formation located almost at the east-west midpoint of the Mediterranean.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
100
The mythical founder of Rome
Who was Romulus?
100
He was named Octavian, but changed his name to this when he became Rome’s first emperor.
Who is Augustus?
100
Besides their religion, the Romans idealized, envied, and borrowed heavily form this culture.
Who are the Greeks?
100
Another name for Roman soldiers.
What are legionaries?
200
The mountains that separate the Italian Peninsula from the rest of Europe.
What are the Alps?
200
This leader was assassinated by Roman senators because people believed he wanted to make himself king.
Who was Julius Caesar?
200
By issuing the Edict of Milan, he became known as the protector of Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
200
The two main social classes in early Rome.
Who are the plebeians and the patricians?
200
The Punic Wars were fought between Rome and this city.
What is Carthage?
300
The island southwest of the Italian Peninsula.
What is Sicily?
300
long with the Vandals and the Visigoths, this group attacked the Roman Empire, Attila perhaps being the most famous.
Who/what are the Huns?
300
He was the emperor who adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who was Theodosius?
300
This city was preserved under a layer of volcanic ash, giving a glimpse into everyday Roman life.
What is Pompeii?
300
When Carthage attempted to seize the Strait of Messina, it started the first of these.
What are the Punic Wars?/ What is the First Punic War?
400
The Roman Empire went as far north as this modern-day country.
What is England/the UK?
400
Julius Caesar started a civil war when he crossed this.
What is What is the Rubicon River?
400
He declared the Edict of Prices in an attempt to control severe inflation.
Who was Diocletian?
400
Despite the fall of the Roman Empire, Romans preserved their culture through Roman laws, Christianity, and this language.
What is Latin?
400
He was a Carthaginian general responsible for the Second Punic War, and tried to bring the war (and elephants) to Italy.
Who was Hannibal?
500
After the death of Theodosius, the empire was divided and the eastern part of the Roman Empire became this.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
500
The Etruscan family that ruled Rome.
Who are the Tarquins?
500
The emperors who ruled from A.D. 14 to A.D. 68 were known as this.
Who are the Julio-Claudian emperors?
500
The group of people that established themselves in northern Italy around 900 B.C. and had a previously-indecipherable alphabet.
Who are the Etruscans?
500
Roman generals improved on Greek military tactics by employing this.
What are smaller, more mobile divisions of troops?