History Flashcards
How many kings were there?
7
Who was the first king?
Romulus
Who was the last king?
Tarquinius Superbus
Who were the first consuls?
Brutus and Collatinus
When was the Monarchy?
753 - 509 BC
When was the Republic?
509 - 27 BC
When was the Empire
27 BC - 476 AD
Who was Cincinnatus?
The altruistic dictator who left his farm to kill bad guys, then returned to farming.
How many Punic Wars were there?
3
Who were the Punic Wars against?
Carthage
Which Punic War involved Hannibal?
2
Who crossed which mountain range with elephants in the 2nd Punic war?
Hannibal, Pyrenees (Between Spain and France)
Where was Rome’s first province?
Sicily
Who defeated Hannibal where?
Publius Cornelius Scipio at the Battle of Zama (Near Carthage). He earned the cognomen Africanus.
Who said “Carthago Delenda Est”
Cato the Elder
What became a province as a result of the 3rd Punic War?
Hispania
Who ended the slave revolt started by Spartacus where?
Pompey, _______??????
The pirates were defeated by whom, where?
Pompey, Mare Nostrum
Who was in the first triumvirate?
Caesar, Pompey, Crassus
Who lost the standards where?
Crassus, Parthia
Who conquered Gaul and Helvetia, and also invaded Germany and Brittania?
Caesar (duh)
Caesar crossed where and declared war on Rome?
The Rubicon
____ and ____ fled Rome after Caesar crossed the Rubicon to ____
Pompey and the Senate fled to Epirus (Greece)
Caesar defeated Pompey where?
Pharsalus (IS THIS MACEDONIA OR EPIRUS?)
After Pompey was defeated at Pharsalus, he fled where?
Egypt
Where did Caesar say Veni Vidi Vici?
Pontus where he defeated some insignificant king. (Which BTW is northern Asia Minor)
When was Caesar killed and by whom?
44 BC on the Ides of March by Brutus and the other Senators
Who formed the 2nd Triumvirate?
Marc Antony, Octavian, Lepidus
Pompey defeated Marc Antony where?
Battle of Actium (Naval)
What was the ara pacis?
Altar of peace made by Augustus.
Who closed the doors of the temple of Janus?
Augustus, Pax Romana
Who was the patron of Vergil and Horace?
Maecenas (a good friend of Augustus)
Who was Augustus’ right hand man?
Agrippa
What did Agrippa build?
The Pantheon
Who were the Julio-Claudian emperors?
Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero
Who were in the Year of the Four?
Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian
Who were the Flavian emperors?
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
Who were the five good emperors?
Nerva Trajan Hadrian Antoninus Pius Marcus Aurelius
What did Commodus do?
Thought he was Hercules (crazy). End of the 5 good emperors.
What did Diocletian do?
Split the Empire into East and West?
What was the Edict of Milan, and who wrote it.
Constantine wrote it, the Edict of Milan promoted religious tolerance
What was the Court of Nicaea
Where Constantine got involved with Christianity
What big building right next to the Colosseum?
Arch of Constantine
Tiberius
Ruled from Capri (Very small island), paranoid about being assassinated, guess what he was assassinated, almost betrayed by Sejanus, a member of his Praetorian guard, most likely because he was so paranoid
____ invaded _____ for seashells.
Caligula, Britain
Caligula
In addition to invading Britain for it’s seashells, he also made his horse a senator. And he was assassinated.
Claudius
Pretended to be stupid. He annexed Brittania, killed by his evil wife Agrippina the Younger. (Who put Nero on the throne. Great idea)
Nero
Crappiest person ever. End of the Julio-Claudians (BC he sucked so much). Set a fire in Rome. Built the Domus Aurea with the Colossus, a giant golden statue of himself. He was not assassinated :O He suicided.
Vespasian
Started the Flavian dynasty (yay), began construction of the Flavian Amphitheater aka the Colosseum
Titus
Son of Vespasian, was emperor when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
_____, the person who completed the Colosseum, also sacked ______ in 70 AD
Titus, Jerusalem
Vesuvius was located where?
Campania, the vacation area of Rome
What places did Vesuvius destroy?
Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabeii
Domition
Ended the Flavian dynasty, bro to bro succession. He sucked, so he was assassinated. Go figure
Nerva
Good emperor #1! He was appointed by the Senate
Trajan
Good emperor #2!
Who was the first foreign emperor and where was he from?
Trajan, Hispania
What wall did the first foreign emperor build, and where?
Hadrian’s wall (wow how clever)
In Britannia.
Where was the 3rd good emperor from and who was he?
Hadrian, Spain (Just like Trajan!)
Antoninus Pius
There is nothing significant about this guy. But he wasn’t bad…
Marcus Aurelius
Last of the 5 good emperors. He was a philosopher. Wrote the Meditations. He was stoic.
The ____ associated with creativity lived onMt. Parnasus in where?
Muses, Achia
