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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. Moment you can never you can take back - Caesar crossed itr
Corvus
Battle of Pharsalus
Imperator
Crossing the Rubicon
2. Hannibal's brother who died in battle
Mithridates VI
Battle of Pharsalus
Hasdrubal
Zealots
3. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Carthage
Milvian Bridge
Plebeian
St. Paul
4. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
Messiah
Remus
Battle of Cannae
Sejanus
5. The gladiators chose as their coach - very smart and strong - knew what to do in the 'battles'
John the Baptist
Battle of Pharsalus
Sabines
Spartacus
6. Nephew of King of Numidia - he killed his cousins so he could become the King - bribes Rome to stay in power
Eunus
Jugurtha
Emperor Theodosius
Scipio Aemilianus
7. Period of piece in Rome 200 years
Caractacus
Pax Romana
Caligula
Imperium
8. Roman leader who defeated Hannibal at the battle of Zama
Cicero
Scipio Africanus
Carthage
Herod
9. Orator - famous speaker in the Senate who becomes a senator
The Edict of Milan
Patres
Cicero
The Gladiator War
10. Right hand man of Sulla who gladiator war and others - comes home in glory
Hamilcar Barca
Caligula
Pompey
Titus
11. Place in North Africa
Corvus
Rhea Silvia
The Gladiator War
Carthage
12. Former bodyguard - killed his way into power - persecuted Christians - divided empire in two with 2 Augustus (emperors) - 2 Caesar (co-emperors)
Diocletian
Crossing the Rubicon
The Social War
Pagan
13. Cannot propose laws but can veto laws - 10 in the Government - Serve for one year
Tiberius
Gaius Gracchus
Tribune
The Gladiator War
14. Carthage must be destroyed
Rhea Silvia
Carthago delenda est
Rhea Silvia
Commodus
15. Leader of the Seleucid Empire - alliances with Macedon
Battle of Pharsalus
Marius
Christ
Antiochus III
16. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Nero
Brutus
Eunus
Patrician
17. King of Pontus Sulla ends up leading army against him
Gauis Julius Caesar
Mithridates VI
Lucretia
Lavuniun
18. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Galba
Tribune
Herod
Rhea Silvia
19. Julius Caesar's uncle - took power when Sulla left ends up getting killed by his own army
The Social War
Cato
Cinna
Vespasian
20. Brother of Tiberius that campaigned for his brother - and continued Tiberius' reforms
Gaius Gracchus
Sulla
Cicero
Mithridates VI
21. One of Antoninus Pius' heirs. Not interested in politics so made his brother Lucius Verus co-emperor. Commodus was his heir - more interested in philosophy stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius
Nero
Titus
John the Baptist
22. Heir to Constantius - made Christianity legal in Rome - was losing in a battle and saw a cross in the sky and saw words that said Conquer by this
Constantine
Horatius
Rome
Claudius
23. Civic duty - public affairs
Milvian Bridge
Tiberius Gracchus
Res Publicas
Titus
24. English meaning: crow - Plank that connects to ships so the naval forces felt like they were fighting on land - the Roman navy was not their strong point
Otho
Latins
Carthage
Corvus
25. Brother of Tiberius that campaigned for his brother - and continued Tiberius' reforms
Sabines
Republic
Gaius Gracchus
Milvian Bridge
26. Augustus starts it - personal army for kings (emperors) of Rome - kind of like secret service
Praetorian Guard
Optimate
Mithridates VI
Claudius
27. Period of piece in Rome 200 years
The Triumvirate
Pax Romana
Battle of Zama
John the Baptist
28. Constantine's law that makes Christianity legal in Rome and declared that Christians must be tolerated
Mithridates VI
Etruscans
The Edict of Milan
Cinna
29. Political power of the Emperor
Princeps
Carthago delenda est
Vitellius
Optimate
30. Major enemy with Rome - allianced on and off with Rome
Plebeian
Hasdrubal
Parthia
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
31. Augustus - Tiberius - Caligula - Cladius - Nero
Messiah
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Plebeian
Imperator
32. Caesar's great nephew forms the 2nd Triumvirate - youngest consul in history of Rome - becomes emperor of Rome
Imperator
Parthia
Octavian
Pompeii
33. Was asked if he wanted to fight Rome - sided the Seleucid Empire - Rome won - he lost all of his rights
Philip V of Macedon
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Pompeii
Nero
34. Where the slaves revolted - they were being held in Capua and they broke loose stole knives from a butcher shop and this was the start of The Gladiator War
Sabines
Mithridates VI
The Gladiator War
Tiberius Gracchus
35. Town ruled by king Numitor
Lavuniun
Mark Antony
Marius
Romulus
36. Military power of the emperor
Pontius Pilate
Imperium
Vespasian
Eunus
37. Another conspirator
Cassius
Eunus
Gladiators
Consuls
38. One of the conspirators of Caesar's assination
Tiberius
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Brutus
Princeps
39. Many Jews that thought Jesus was a Messiah - and that he was going to oppose the Roman government
Zealots
Romulus
Tiberius
Parthia
40. Marcus Aurelius' heir - open about his male lover his men killed him
Commodus
Cicero
Numidia
Trajan (what a boss)
41. Caesar's great nephew forms the 2nd Triumvirate - youngest consul in history of Rome - becomes emperor of Rome
Otho
Jugurtha
Lucretia
Octavian
42. Carthage must be destroyed
Carthago delenda est
Parthia
Scipio Africanus
Cinna
43. Got raped by Tarquin the Younger's son - it is how Tarquin's rule came to an end.
Caractacus
King Herod
Pompeii
Lucretia
44. Orator - famous speaker in the Senate who becomes a senator
Battle of Actium
Caesarion
Cicero
Romulus
45. Anointed one - Jewish term for savior
Res Publicas
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Messiah
Diocletian
46. Grandson of Scipio Africanus - fought against Carthage and defeated the whole civilization
Pompeii
Scipio Aemilianus
Titus
Gaius Gracchus
47. Bad nephew of Survius Tullius. Took the throne by force and killed many people.
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Messiah
Crossing the Rubicon
Battle of Cannae
48. Founding Fathers of Rome
Battle of Zama
Romulus
Superbus
Patres
49. Son of Rhea Silvia killed by his brother Romulus.
Remus
St. Paul
Cicero
Sulla
50. Another conspirator
Plebeian
Cassius
Battle of Pharsalus
Constantine