Gr. 11 Ancient Rome Quizz
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- Carthaginan leader, invaded Italy
- Hannibal
- Roman general who conquered Gaul
- Julius Caesar
- This is what the Romans called France
- Gaul
- Jew who converted, spread Christianity
- Paul
- First to rule Rome as an emperor
- Augustus
- Authored "Aeneid"
- Virgil
- Ptolemy's theory of the universe
- the earth was at the center
- German who got rid of the Roman emperor;signaled the "fall" of Rome
- Odoacer
- Roman upper class....landowner
- patrician
- Roman commoner, farmer, trader...
- plebeian
- definition of messiah
- savior sent by god
- What is a martyr?
- person who suffers or dies for his beliefs
- Soldiers who fight for whomever pays them the most....
- mercenaries
- Define Republic....
- government where officials are chosen by the people
- basic unit of the Roman army
- legion
- bridge-like structure, made of stone...delivers water
- aqueduct
- Define "sect"
- small religious group
- something that goes against the official teachings of the church
- heresy
- his rule marked the start of the Pax Romana
- Augustus
- Which emperor divided the Roman Empire into two sections?
- Diocletian
- What were "tribunes" in the Roman government?
- representatives of the commoners
- A series of civil wars followed the deaths of these brothers...
- Gracchus
- Which other civilization influenced Roman art and literature the most?
- the Greeks
- After whose death did the Pax Romana end?
- Marcus Aurelius
- Today's name for what was once Constantinople
- Istanbul
- Invasions of what peoples help contribute to the decline of Rome?
- Germanic tribes
- What change did the Edict of Milan bring about...
- effectively brought an end to the Roman persecution of Christians
- When are the "Ides of March"?
- March 15
- Two men who competed for power after Caesar's death....
- Mark Antony and Octavian
- Caesar crossed this river to trigger a civil war
- Rubicon River
- Romans were polytheistic or monotheistic
- polytheistic
- What was a "latifundia"?
- A large, plantation-like estate
- Where was Caesar when he was killed?
- in the Roman Senate
- Name 2 Romans that Cleopatra had married
- Caesar and Mark Antony
- Which Roman emperor appointed a horse as consul?
- Caligula
- It had chariot races and gladiator battles....
- Circus Maximus
- Horace and Virgil were both these kinds of writers...
- poets
- Of Greek and Roman, which type of architecture was more grand and ornate?
- Roman
- Which of these did Jesus not teach....Ten Commandments, polytheism, belief in Moses
- polytheism
- In the early years of Christianinty, were the Romans more tolerant of Jews or Christians?
- Jews
- When the Roman Empire was divided into 2 parts...which was the wealthier of the two?
- Eastern
- Which of these was not Germanic invaders of Rome: Goths, Vikings, Visigoths, Huns
- Vikings
- What was the other name for the Eastern Roman Empire?
- Byzantine Empire
- Corsica is located in which sea?
- Tyrrhenian Sea
- These were the people the Romans through off the Italian peninsula when Rome was first getting started....
- Eutruscans
- Elephants and the Alps....who's this?
- Hannibal