J! Ancient History

Question 1

Roman orator and official wrote “Histories” and “Annals”

Answer 1

Tacitus

Question 2

Roman naturalist wrote “Natural History” encyclopedia

Answer 2

Pliny the Elder

Question 3

480 BC battle

Answer 3

Thermopylae

Question 4

“The Great” triumvirate member

Answer 4

Pompey

Question 5

Roman orgy festival

Answer 5

Saturnalia

Question 6

Hamilcar Barca son

Answer 6

Hannibal

Question 7

Peace of Nicias war

Answer 7

Peloponnesian War

Question 8

battle where Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian

Answer 8

Battle of Actium

Question 9

emperor built the Hagia Sophia

Answer 9

Justinian

Question 10

Incan Empire capital

Answer 10

Cusco

Question 11

Punic War sides

Answer 11

Rome and Carthage

Question 12

first Roman emperor

Answer 12

Augustus

Question 13

Nero’s tutor

Answer 13

Seneca

Question 14

Roman orator

Answer 14

Cicero

Question 15

Roman historian

Answer 15

Tacitus

Question 16

Persian king lost to Alexander at Marathon

Answer 16

Darius

Question 17

Spartan league

Answer 17

Peloponnesian league

Question 18

Athenian league

Answer 18

Delian league

Question 19

Assyria capital

Answer 19

Nineveh

Question 20

ruins by Cuzco

Answer 20

Machu Picchu

Question 21

baths named for Roman emperor

Answer 21

Caracalla

Question 22

Father of History

Answer 22

Herodotus

Question 23

Germanic group sacked Rome 400s

Answer 23

Visigoths

Question 24

led the Greeks against Troy

Answer 24

Agamemnon

Question 25

Russian prince and military 1200s

Answer 25

Alexander Nevsky

Question 26

532 chariot racing riots empire

Answer 26

Constantinople/Byzantium

Question 27

largest Roman arena, for racing

Answer 27

Circus Maximus

Question 28

Greek geographer and astronomer in Egypt

Answer 28

Ptolemy