Gr. 7 Ancient Rome Quizz
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- He authored the Aeneid...
- Virgil
- This was the province governed by Julius Caesar....
- Gaul
- This is the modern day country that once was Gaul....
- France
- The number of years Caesar governed Gaul....
- nine years
- Caesar was which of these....dictator, emperor, consul, governor
- consul, dictator, governor
- This is the main river near the original location of Rome...
- Tiber River
- Name the wars between Rome and Carthage...
- Punic Wars
- Carthage was located on this continent....
- Africa
- To get from Rome to Carthage, Romans had to sail across this sea...
- Mediterranean
- The Punic Wars began over a dispute about this island...
- Sicily
- Who were the Etruscans?
- early settlers of the Italian peninsula
- Name the 2 classes of Roman citizens.....
- Plebeians....Patricians
- Of the 2 classes, which was the group of common people?
- Plebeians
- Who won the Punic Wars?
- Rome
- The first Roman Emperor...
- Octavian (also known Augustus)
- Named after Emperor Constantine.....
- Constantinople
- The city-victim of Mount Vesuvius....
- Pompeii
- Slavery was/was not legal in Ancient Rome...
- was legal
- I wonder what the details are of Julius Caesar coming to power in Rome...
- ....so do I. That's a great essay question
- Are the details of the Roman persecution of the Christians and the eventual end of the persecution important to Roman history?
- Why, yes...and what a good essay topic that is!!!!
- The reason the book says that the Romans put Jesus to death....
- fear of him setting up a new government.
- The Roman official at Jerusalem...
- Pontius Pilate
- What are the Twelve Tables?
- first collection of Roman laws written down
- These structures helped with Roman irrigation....
- aqueducts
- The Romans did or did not develop an alphabet that other used....
- did
- Name the huge Roman stadium where events were held...
- Colosseum
- This was the chief of the Roman gods....
- Jupiter
- The Aeneid is the "sequel" to this literary classic....
- The Iliad
- The Roman version of Hera...
- Juno
- Dido was the beautiful queen of this city-state.....
- Carthage
- "Republic" is a Latin word that means...
- "people's affair"
- The plebeians made up this fraction of the Roman population....
- 9/10
- This was the Roman farmer who became a kind dictator then returned to being a farmer....
- Cincinnatus
- "Punic" means...
- Phoencian
- Carthage ruled this European city whose capital today is Madrid...
- Spain
- This Carthaginian general led is troops over mountains into the Italian peninsula....
- Hannibal
- Hannibal led his soldiers across these mountains to invade Italy....
- The Pyrennes and the Alps
- Hannibal's cavalry rode these...
- elephants and horses
- This Roman senator repeatedly urged theat Rome destroy Carthage...
- Cato
- Gaul included France and this modern day European country...
- Italy at first, later Belgium and Switzerland
- This man began as a political partner of Caesar's but became his enemy.....
- Pompey
- The manner of Caesar's death....
- assassination
- This relative of Caesar took control of Rome after the assassination....
- Octavian
- How did Octavian's name get changed to Augustus?
- The Senate re-named him
- Roman emperors ruled for these many centuries....
- four
- Emperor Constantine located the "New Rome" in the Eastern Empire on the site of this Greek city...
- Byzantium
- Today Constantinople is known as...
- Istanbul
- Which was the first Roman Emperor to adopt the Christian religion?
- Constantine
- What country would you be in if you were having a picnic lunch at the foot of Mount Vesuvius?
- Italy
- This name is given to the four books written about the life and teachings of Jesus....
- The Gospels
- The early followers of Jesus were practicioners of this religion....
- Jewish
- Emperor Constantine granted religious freedom to the Christians after this....
- a vision of a flaming cross in the sky before going into battle
- This emperor made Christianity the official religon of the empire...
- Theodosius
- Quarreling between patricians and plebeians about what laws meant led to the creation of these....
- Twelve Tables
- Which are the Romance languages?
- Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian