Age of Empires II: Rome

Question 1

Periodization

Answer 1

Regal Rome (753-509); Republic (509-31); Early Empire (31 BC-284 AD); Late Empire (284-640); Byzantium (640-1453)

Question 2

Patricians

Answer 2

Roman upper class

Question 3

Plebeians

Answer 3

Roman lower class

Question 4

Consul

Answer 4

Highest magistrate. Two consuls were elected every year

Question 5

Tribune

Answer 5

Plebeian magistrate who had the right to veto legislation proposed in the Senate

Question 6

Augustus

Answer 6

Title given by the Senate to Augustus, the first Roman emperor

Question 7

Princeps

Answer 7

Title taken by Augustus, the first Roman emperor

Question 8

Constitutio Antoninana (212 AD)

Answer 8

Law given by emperor Caracalla granting Roman citizenship to all males in the Empire

Question 9

Hannibal

Answer 9

Famous Carthaginian commander; fought against Rome in the Second Punic War

Question 10

Punic Wars (264 BC - 146 BC)

Answer 10

Long series of wars between Rome and Carthage for supremacy in the Western Mediteranean

Question 11

Battle of Zama (202 BC)

Answer 11

Decisive victory of the Romans in the Punic War

Question 12

Princeps

Answer 12

Meaning “first citizen”

Question 13

Imperator

Answer 13

Meaning “victorious in battle”

Question 14

Pax Romana

Answer 14

Roman Peace, a phrase coined by modern historians to illustrate the prosperity and stability of the Roman world in the first two centuries AD.

Question 15

Pompeii

Answer 15

City in Italy buried by the Vesuvius in 79 AD

Question 16

Septimius Severus

Answer 16

First emperor of the Severan dynasty

Question 17

Tetrarchy

Answer 17

Political system, (“rulership of four”) introduced by emperor Diocletian (284-305)