Roman History Drill Questions - The Empire Flashcards
The Second Triumvirate
Octavian
Antony
Lepidus
Caesar’s nephew who became the first emperor of Rome
Octavius aka Octavian
The author of the Aeneid who lived in the time of Augustus
Virgil
The Queen of Egypt who charmed Julius Caesar and Antony
Cleopatra
Octavius’ honorary name after he became Caesar
Augustus
He defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium
Octavian
He was Caesar when Christ was born
Augustus
He was Caesar when Christ was crucified
Tiberius
Date for the beginning of the Roman Empire
27 BC
The elite soldiers who guarded the emperor
Praetorian Guard
He fiddled while Rome burned
Nero
The first Caesar who persecuted Christians
Nero
The emperor who destroyed the Jerusalem Temple
Titus
Date of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
70 AD
Romans wanted an emperor as great as Augustus and as good as
Trajan
He built a famous wall in Britain and a tomb in Rome
Hadrian
The sad Stoic emperor
Marcus Aurelius
He reorganized the empire
Diocletian
The first Christian emperor
Constantine
Constantine moved the capital of Rome to this city
Byzantium (Constantinople)
Julian the
Apostate
He tried to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem to prove Christianity false
Julian the Apostate
Date of the fall of Rome
476 AD
The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Romulus Augustulus
