Chapter 4: The Roman Civilization

Question 1

According to Roman legend, who founded the city of Rome?

Answer 1

Romulus and Remus

Question 2

What were the three branches of government in the Roman Republic?

Answer 2

Consuls, Senate, and assemblies

Question 3

Why was the Law of the Twelve Tables important?

Answer 3

They were the fist Roman Law that was written down.

Question 4

What north African city rivaled Rome for Mediterranean trade?

Answer 4

Carthage

Question 5

What wars were fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians?

Answer 5

The Punic Wars

Question 6

What island was the First Punic War fought over?

Answer 6

Sicily

Question 7

Who invaded Italy through the Alps?

Answer 7

Hannibal

Question 8

Who defeated Hannibal at Zama?

Answer 8

Scipio

Question 9

Who sided with the Senate in the first civil war?

Answer 9

Sulla

Question 10

Who was a member of the triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Pompey?

Answer 10

Crassus

Question 11

Who changed the Roman army in a “professional” army that served for financial gain?

Answer 11

Marius

Question 12

Who established a calendar that is the basis of our own calendar?

Answer 12

Julius Caesar

Question 13

Who fought Octavian in the third civil war?

Answer 13

Mark Antony

Question 14

What was the period of peace and prosperity in Roman history called?

Answer 14

Pax Romana

Question 15

Who’s laws punishing immorality and limiting extravagant living failed to produce moral reform in Rome?

Answer 15

Augustus

Question 16

Who was the Roman emperor at the time of Jesus’ death?

Answer 16

Tiberius

Question 17

Was the spread of Christianity beyond the Jewish area aided by the conversation of Paul?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

Under which emperor did the first official Roman persecution of Christianity begin?

Answer 18

Nero

Question 19

Who led the Roman legions into Jerusalem in AD 70?

Answer 19

Titus

Question 20

What Roman emperor legalized Christianity?

Answer 20

Constatine

Question 21

What ended persecution and legalized Christianity?

Answer 21

Edict of Milan

Question 22

Who was the Roman emperor during the last and most widespread Roman persecution?

Answer 22

Diocletian

Question 23

Who decreed Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire?

Answer 23

Constatine

Question 24

At what crucial battle did the Visigoths defeat the Romans?

Answer 24

Battle of Adrianople

Question 25

Under whose leadership did the Huns invade the Roman territory?

Answer 25

Attila

Question 26

What literary figure was also a leading politician, author, lawyer, and statesman?

Answer 26

Cicero

Question 27

Who was called the “Homer of Rome?”

Answer 27

Virgil

Question 28

Who promoted the theory that the earth was the center of the universe?

Answer 28

Ptolemy

Question 29

Through Roman engineering, what supplied water to the cities?

Answer 29

Aqueducts

Question 30

Why were gladiator fights staged by Roman emperors?

Answer 30

To keep the public in favor and keep unemployed masses entertained.

Question 31

Who was a philosopher who saw Stoicism as the solution to Rome’s moral decline?

Answer 31

Seneca