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Rome a Risin'
Punic Wars Weren't Puny
The Heavy Hitters
Pax Romana-We're Livin Big Now!
Rome a Fallin'
100
The legendary character for which Rome was named.
Who is Romulus?
100
The number of Punic Wars fought.
What are three?
100
The first leader of the military who was also the first ruler of Roman territory.
Who was Julius Caesar?
100
The amount of time Romans spent living in this successful, peaceful time.
What is 200 years?
100
The reason faithful Romans persecuted Christians.
What was Christians believing in a one and only god?
200
The body of water surrounded by Roman territory.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The two countries who fought in the Punic Wars.
What were Rome and Carthage?
200
The queen of Egypt who enlisted the help from Julius Caesar and Marc Antony to control her own territory.
Who was Cleopatra? Hey bonus! Do you know the name of the snake that killed her?
200
Pipelines that moved water to the city.
What were aqueducts?
200
Rome's first Christian emperor.
Who was Constantine?
300
The religion practiced by Romans during the era of the Caesars.
What is mythology (or multiple gods and goddesses)?
300
The two strange animals used by Romans or Carthaginians during wartime.
What were elephants and snakes?
300
The original name of Augustus Caesar.
What was Octavian?
300
Where the temples, marketplace and business place was located.
What was the Forum?
300
The date (month/day/year) Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii.
What is August 24, 79 A.D.?
400
The place Roman citizens went to watch gladiators fight to their deaths.
What is the Colosseum?
400
The leader of the Carthaginian troops.
Who was Hannibal?
400
Roman senators worried Julius Caesar was getting too powerful so they performed this horrific act on this day.
What was an assassination on March 15, 44 A.D.?
400
This was used to connect the provinces of Rome to the city itself.
What was a road system?
400
The name given to the eastern and more successful half of the empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
500
The place Roman citizens went to watch chariot races.
What is the Circus Maximus?
500
The product Romans poured on the fields of Carthage to prevent their crops from growing.
What is salt?
500
Julius Caesar's last words.
What were "Et tu, Brute?"
500
Romans conducted business in the public bath or while sitting in one of these.
What was a sauna?
500
The year the Roman Empire fell apart and was no longer Roman territory.
What was 476 A.D.