MY ROMAN HISTORY

Question 1

What was the Oculus?

Answer 1

The oculus was used by the Ancient Romans, one of the finest examples being that in the dome of the Pantheon. Open to the weather, it allows rain to enter and fall to the floor, where it is carried away through drains. Though the opening looks small, it actually has a diameter of 27 ft (8.2 m), allowing it to light the building.

Question 2

Who was Hadrian?

Answer 2

Hadrian was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire’s disparate peoples. He is known for building Hadrian’s Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia.

Question 3

Apollodorus

Answer 3

He is one of the few architects whose name survives from antiquity

he is credited with introducing several Eastern innovations to the Roman Imperial style, such as making the dome a standard.

Cassius Dio reports that Apollodorus offended Hadrian by dismissing and ridiculing the emperor’s forays into architecture, which led to his banishment and death (although doubts have been raised concerning the veracity of Dio’s claim)

Question 4

Caracalla

Answer 4

Son of Severus
Killed brother

211-217 AD

Stabbed by his guards. Eastern campaign

Question 5

Geta

Answer 5

Caracalla brother
Killed by brother in 211
Name chiseled off monuments -sent message, the power of the state

Question 6

Baths of Caracalla

Answer 6

Completed 216 A.D.

Question 7

Aqueduct destruction of Rome

Answer 7

1.2 million to 12,000

Question 8

Julius Caesar

Answer 8

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

Question 9

Roman republic

Answer 9

600 years
Ruled by aristocrats

Changed when the structure that was good for running a local govt was forced to manage A global superpower.

Question 10

Roman politicians into spin

Answer 10

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Question 11

Spartacus

Answer 11

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt with an army numbering in the tens of thousands. He defeated Roman forces over half a dozen times, marching his people up and down the Italian peninsula until he was killed in battle in April 71 B.C.

Question 12

Spartacus slaughter

Answer 12

In a final act of cruelty Crassus crucified 6,000 prisoners along the Via Appia from Capua to Rome.

Question 13

Why did Rome thrive?

Answer 13

Invited everyone to city?

Question 14

What was Rome’s first engineering feat?

Answer 14

Sewer

Question 15

What brought Roman culture together?

Answer 15

The Forum?

Question 16

What impact did the Etruscans have?

Answer 16

Ancient people of Etruria, Italy, between the Tiber and Arno rivers west and south of the Apennines, whose urban civilization reached its height in the 6th century bce. Many features of Etruscan culture were adopted by the Romans, their successors to power in the peninsula.

Question 17

What was the Via Appia?

Answer 17

Road

Question 18

When did Caesar cross the Rhine?

Answer 18

During the Gallic War in 55 BC and 53 BC.

Question 19

Why did Caesar cross the Rhine?

Answer 19

During Caesar’s conquest of Gaul it became necessary to secure the eastern border of the new provinces against marauding Germanic tribes. The tribes felt safe on the eastern side of the Rhine river, trusting the river as a natural border which offered cover from retaliatory attack after their opportunistic raids into the province. Caesar decided to confront them. He also wanted to show support for the Ubians, an allied German tribe across the Rhine.

Question 20

Why didn’t Caesar use boats to cross the Rhine?

Answer 20

While he could have crossed the river by boats which the Ubians had offered to provide, he decided to build a bridge, thus demonstrating Rome’s ability to bring the fight at any time to the Germanic tribes and additionally, as he indicated in his Commentary on the Gallic War, this approach conformed more to his own dignity and style, than to anything else.

Question 21

How were Caesar’s bridges across the Rhine built?

Answer 21

Double timber pilings were rammed into the river bottom by winching up a large stone and releasing it, thereby driving the posts into the riverbed. The most upstream and downstream pilings were slanted and secured by a beam, and multiple segments of these then linked up to form the basis of the bridge.

Question 22

What impact did Caesar’s first bridge across the Rhine send?

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Answer 22

• He was able to secure the eastern border of Gaul.
• He demonstrated that Roman power could easily and at will cross the Rhine
• For several centuries significant Germanic incursions across the Rhine were halted.
• His feat served him in establishing his fame at hom

Question 23

What happened after Caesar crossed the Rhine?

Answer 23

Within a short time of his crossing, nearly all tribes within the region sent hostages along with messages of peace. Only the Sigambri resisted, fleeing their towns rather than submit to Caesar. The Romans made an example of them by burning their stores and their villages, before receiving word that the Suevi were beginning to assemble in opposition. Caesar, rather than risk this glorious achievement in a pitched battle with a fierce foe, decided that discretion was the better part of valor. After spending only 18 days in Germanic territory, the Romans returned across the Rhine, burning their recently constructed bridge in the process.

Question 24

How long was Caesar’s first bridge across the Rhine? and how long did it take to build?

Answer 24

The bridge was 300 feet long and took 10 days to build.

Question 25

Who was Severus?

Answer 25

Lucius Septimius Severus (Latin: [sɛˈweːrʊs]; 9 April 145 – 4 February 211) was a Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of the emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.

Question 26

What was the outcome of Severus’ attempt to conquer Scotland?

Answer 26

Severus travelled to Britain in 208, strengthening Hadrian’s Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall. In AD 209 he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland) with an army of 50,000 men[6] but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill of an infectious disease in late 210. He died in early 211 in England