Middles 1
What happened to Maxentius’ pontoon bridge during the Battle of Milvian Bridge?
IT COLLAPSED
How was a Trigon ball passed in the game of Trigon?
CAUGHT WITH THE RIGHT HAND AND THROWN WITH THE LEFT.
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What is the name of the series of wars that Rome fought with Carthage?
Rome’s wars with Carthage were the Punic Wars.
What is the scattering of the Jews called?
The Diaspora.
Bonus: 200 pts
What were aqueducts?
Aqueducts were stone channels that the Romans built to carry running water from nearby hill and mountain springs into their cities.
What detailed Christian creed proclaimed that Christ was of the same essence as God?
THE NICENE CREED
What two marauding tribes sacked Rome?
THE VISIGOTHS AND THE VANDALS
What was the Roman word for “shield”?
Scutum.
Who was Julius' Caesar's heir, and how old was he when Caesar was assassinated?
Caesar’s heir was nineteen‐year‐old Gaius Octavian, who later became Caesar Augustus.
How did the Romans keep Britain’s unconquered northern tribes from raiding Roman territory in southern Britain?
The Romans defended their territory with Hadrian’s Wall, an 80‐mile‐long wall protected by small forts one mile apart.
Bonus: 200 pts
What was the Roman word for the uncultured marauders who attacked Rome’s borders?
BARBARIANS
What Roman princess sent this marauder her wedding ring?
Double Points
HONORIA
What was the First Triumvirate?
The First Triumvirate was a powerful political alliance between Caesar, Crassus and Pompey.
What did the senate do to Caesar on the Ides of March?
Bonus: Which of Caesar’s own cousins was involved?
300pts
On the Ides of March, members of the senate surrounded Caesar and stabbed him to death.
Bonus: Caesar’s cousin Brutus was among the assassins.
Where was Carthage located?
Carthage lay on the coast of North Africa, in what is now Tunisia.
From where did the Goths come?
SWEDEN
What marauder earned the nickname “the Scourge of God”?
ATTILA THE HUN
What were the three branches of the Roman Republic’s government?
The senate, the consuls and the assemblies.
What is Torah?
Torah is the collected five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Sometimes “Torah” refers to all of the Hebrew scriptures.
What sea lies between the Italian peninsula and the Balkan peninsula?
Bonus: 200 pts
The Adriatic Sea.
Who defeated Maxentius and eventually reunited the Roman Empire?
CONSTANTINE
Stilicho was placed in charge of the Roman army but couldn’t defeat the Visigoths. What did he tell the emperor to do in order to make peace with the Visigoths?
PAY THEM OFF WITH GOLD
How were the Etruscans similar to the Greeks?
There are 5.Bonus: 200 pts for each correct answer
Like the Greeks, the Etruscans (1) used stone in their buildings,
(2) dug canals, (3) built roads, aqueducts and water systems,
(4) used the Greek alphabet and
(5) worshiped the Greek gods.
List a few of the reasons why the Romans hated the early Christians so much. Romans hated the early Christians because:
4 Reasons
(1) they refused to acknowledge any other gods but their own, and judged Rome’s revered gods to be mere idols;
(2) they refused to bow down to the emperors;
(3) they kept themselves separate and aloof from other Romans; and
(4) the sacrament of communion sounded like cannibalism, which the Romans did not tolerate.
What natural disaster happened on August 24, 79 AD?
Mount Vesuvius, Italy’s largest volcano, erupted.