Ancient Rome

Question 1

What date is used to mark the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

Answer 1

deposition of Romulus Augustus (476CE)

Question 2

Romulus

Answer 2

twins with Remus who he kills, creates Rome on 7 hills

Question 3

What was the Senate of the Roman Republic made of?

Answer 3

patricians + Tribal Assembly

Question 4

What were The Twelve Tables?

Answer 4

provided political and social rights for plebeians (beginning of European law)

Question 5

Who was the first emperor of the Roman Empire?

Answer 5

Caesar Augustus

Question 6

What does “Pax Romana” mean?

Answer 6

Roman Peace

Question 7

When did The Twelve Tables occur?

Answer 7

450 BCE

Question 8

When did Pax Romana occur?

Answer 8

27 BCE - 180 CE

Question 9

What was the name of the emperor who officially tolerated Christianity?

Answer 9

Constantine

Question 10

How did Constantine officially tolerate Christianity?

Answer 10

with the Edict of Milan

Question 11

Who adopts Christianity as Rome’s official religion?

Answer 11

Theodosius

Question 12

At the peak of the Roman Empire, which continents did Rome control land on?

Answer 12

Europe, Africa, Asia

Question 13

When did the Roman Republic occur?

Answer 13

509 - 27 BCE

Question 14

Patricians

Answer 14

wealthy Romans, had power, were of high class (merchants)

Question 15

Plebeians

Answer 15

poor Romans, no power (farmers, slaves)

Question 16

Who was the enemy during the Punic Wars?

Answer 16

Carthage (in Sicily)

Question 17

Who won the Punic Wars?

Answer 17

Rome

Question 18

Julius Caeser

Answer 18

first dictator of the Roman Empire, military general, assassinated by Senate (fear)

Question 19

Byzantine Empire

Answer 19

aka Eastern Roman Empire, lasted ~1000 years longer than the Western Roman Empire

Question 20

When did the Byzantine Empire fall?

Answer 20

1453 CE

Question 21

What is an economic reason for the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Answer 21

cost of maintaining army

Question 22

What is a political reason for the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Answer 22

no working political system, civil unrest within + without empire, corrupt emperors

Question 23

Who was the final invader of the Roman Empire?

Answer 23

Germanic tribes

Question 24

What are other reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire?

Answer 24

plague, lead poisoning, army values weakened by Christianity

Question 25

Why/how did Christianity grow?

Answer 25

it became Rome’s official religion, it’s easy to convert to, spread on Rome’s many roads

Question 26

How did Rome view other religions?

Answer 26

very against any religion but their own, executed people who practiced a religion that went against Rome’s values in the slightest

Question 27

Art and architecture in Rome

Answer 27

arches, aqueducts, pillars/columns, vaults, domes

Question 28

Which civilization most influenced Roman art and architecture?

Answer 28

the Greek civilization