Geography
What city, located in Central Italy, served as the capital of a republic and then an empire?
What is Rome
After building a casino in Dansville, and creating a salad, this triumvir overthrew the Republic.
Who is Julius Caesar
What served as the main government of the Roman Republic?
What is the Senate?
What is it called when money loses value because the supply is too high?
Inflation
What is the Translation for Pax Romana?
What is Roman Peace?
Located in North Africa this city was known for trade and also dying violently
What is Carthage?
Riding on his uncle's coattails this man became the first emperor after defeating his adopted father's baby momma.
Who is Octavian(Augustus)
There were two of these men at one time-- they had to wait ten years between terms and were the most powerful men in the government
This group of people caused massive employment by selfishly taking plebian jobs after massive conquests
Who are slaves?
These were built at first by the army but maintained to keep the empire together-- all of these lead to Rome
What are Roads?
Located at the crossroad of several trade routes what city was rebuilt in the 330s to be a new, eastern capital?
What is Constantinople?
Inheriting his father's hatred of a certain Mediterranean republic this man invaded Italy for 15 years to no major effect.
Who is Hannibal
Rich nobility of Rome and the class Octavian wasn't
What is a patrician?
A group chat of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus who undermined the republic for political gain.
What is the First Triumvirate?
What did Rome do with its money during the Pax Romana?
What is standardization?
What served as a natural barrier to Italy except for the time a one-eyed man waltzed through with elephants?
What are the Alps?
Oh man! I forgot the write my paper for creative writing, I better copy the Odyessy!
Who is the Author of the Aeneid?
Who was Virgil
Representatives of the Plebians
Who are Tribunes?
A shrewd politician who became the last non-Roman ruler of Egypt
Cleopatra
The name of the last group of emperors for the Pax Romana
Who are the Five Good Emperors?
Caesar crossed this as the point of no return.
What is the Rubicon.
Who was Ptolemy?
These men were elected as supreme leaders during times of crisis. Cincinnatis is an example of one
What is a dictator?
Battle between the Liberators and the 2nd Triumverate- results in the death of Crassus and Brutus
What is the Battle of Phillpi?
Rome, like Persia, established this throughout the empire to manage it.
What is an Imperial Bureaucracy?