Geography
Rome's river.
What is the Tiber?
Represented by a lightning bolt, this is the king of the gods -- Zeus to the Greeks.
Who is Jupiter?
Romans were famous for embracing public cleanliness at these locations.
What are (public) baths?
This was the aristocratic level of Roman government, which was made up of 100-300 men who served for life and was responsible for much of the law-making in the Roman Republic.
What is the Senate?
The Roman economy, like that of all ancient civilizations, relied primarily on this form of production.
What is agriculture?
Rome's great rival city across the Mediterranean on the northern coast of Africa. The Romans sacked it in 146 BCE.
What is Carthage?
This religion developed on the eastern edge of Roman territory before spreading slowly and becoming the official religion of the whole empire.
What is Christianity?
Many of Rome's great structures were built from this material, which the Romans were pioneers in developing.
What is concrete?
These elected leaders served 1-year terms holding executive and military authority in the Roman Republic, but always in pairs.
What are consuls?
Much of what we know about how Romans lived comes from this archaeological site, a Roman city buried by ash in a volcanic eruption.
What is Pompeii?
The number of hills that Rome was famously built on.
What is seven?
A temple dedicated to all of the gods of Rome, built by Hadrian -- it was later converted into a Christian church.
What is the Pantheon?
This Roman engineering achievement allowed for the transport of water into cities and utilized the arch in its structure.
What is an aqueduct?
The grand-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, when he became the first Roman Emperor he took the name Augustus.
Who is Octavian/Octavius?
This system of unfree labor was central to Rome's economy as a Republic and an Empire, especially as Rome conquered more territory from the 2nd Century BCE onward.
What is slavery?
Roman province to the northwest of Italy, now France, conquered and governed for a time by Julius Caesar.
What is Gaul?
The murdered twin of the two that founded Rome, according to mythology.
Who is Remus?
This is the defining work of Roman literature and mythmaking, written by Virgil and telling how a survivor of the fall of Troy came to Italy and founded what would become the Roman people.
What is the Aeneid?
One of the so-called "good" emperors, he brought the Roman Empire to its greatest geographic extent and instituted social welfare in the city.
Who is Trajan?
In Latin it is civitas -- Rome was relatively more generous than the Greeks in granting this status to newly conquered people of the empire.
What is citizenship?
The struggle to control this island and its natural resources led to the First Punic War.
What is Sicily?
The worship of her sacred flame by a select group of priestesses was central to Roman religion.
Who is Vesta?
The first of Rome's many innovations in codifying the law, this helped stabilize the relationship between Patricians and Plebeians in early Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This term was given to Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus when they ran Rome, then later adopted by Octavian, Marc Antony, and Lepidus.
What is Triumvirate?
The majority of the early Roman population and the lower of the two main social classes, the 'commoners' -- they gradually gained more power and equality over time.
What are plebeians?