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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Alba Longa
Tiber River
Cicero
Patrician
2. Military and political leader - teams up with Crassus and Pompey - comes together with them to become powerful - was governor of Spain and Gaul
Veto
Gauis Julius Caesar
Crassus
Remus
3. Commander of Carthage during first Punic War - had to stop ruling because Carthage started to run out of resources
Gladiators
Hamilcar Barca
Philip V of Macedon
Latins
4. Orator - famous speaker in the Senate who becomes a senator
Pontifex Maximus
Lavuniun
Cicero
Crassus
5. 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
Parthia
Proletariat
Constantine
Etruscans
6. River that has a bridge that connects to Rome.
Tiber River
Hiero II
Crassus
Lucius Verus
7. Bad nephew of Survius Tullius. Took the throne by force and killed many people.
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Galba
Pompey
Horatius
8. Military commander of the Emperor
The Edict of Milan
Constantine
Imperator
The Jugurthine War
9. Proud
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Jugurtha
Superbus
Proletariat
10. Popular speaker said to be the son of God - tried to reform Jewish religion - accidentally started Christianity
Mithridates VI
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Gaius Gracchus
Pontifex Maximus
11. Leader of the Seleucid Empire - alliances with Macedon
The Gladiator War
Caracalla
The Jugurthine War
Antiochus III
12. Major enemy with Rome - allianced on and off with Rome
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Veto
Mithridates VI
Parthia
13. Was asked if he wanted to fight Rome - sided the Seleucid Empire - Rome won - he lost all of his rights
Princeps
Latins
Pontius Pilate
Philip V of Macedon
14. Large estate
Carthage
Crossing the Rubicon
Battle of Cannae
Latifundia
15. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Parthia
Cato
Rhea Silvia
Hannibal Barca
16. Founding Fathers of Rome
Patres
Commodus
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Domitian
17. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Antiochus III
Rhea Silvia
Pax Romana
Horatius
18. Greek colony
Nerva
Messina
Praetorian Guard
Gaius Gracchus
19. Romulus' land that he shared with his brother - became the center of Rome.
Palatine Hill
Marcus Aurelius
John the Baptist
Sejanus
20. 3rd Julio-Claudian emperor - declared himself a God - practiced incest with his sisters - murdered the one that got pregnant - tried to make his horse consul - fought the sea because he was crazy - he is killed by the Praetorian Guard - he demands th
Superbus
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Caligula
Veto
21. Marius' assistant - his army comes through Rome and fights Marius
Imperator
Scipio Africanus
Philip V of Macedon
Sulla
22. Anointed one - comes from Greek word Christos meaning Messiah
Christ
Cleoptra XIII
Sejanus
Battle of Cannae
23. Hadrian's heir. Rule was boring besides Rome's 900th anniversary
Antonius Pius
Pontifex Maximus
Horatius
Hasdrubal
24. Cannot propose laws but can veto laws - 10 in the Government - Serve for one year
King Herod
Battle of Cannae
Cleoptra XIII
Tribune
25. Leader of the Praetorian Guard - planned to take over once Tiberius died. Tiberius found out and killed him.
Pompey
Ptolemy XIII
Palatine Hill
Sejanus
26. People living in Estrucania who attacked Romans
Christ
St. Paul
Trajan (what a boss)
Etruscans
27. Worked through the senate to get power
The Jugurthine War
Scipio Africanus
Optimate
Hannibal Barca
28. 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
Princeps
Nerva
Marcus Aurelius
Scipio Aemilianus
29. Killed by Caesar - ordered death of Pompey - King and Egypt both - fighting against his sister to be ruler
Crossing the Rubicon
Ptolemy XIII
Diocletian
Plebeian Secession
30. Roman governor of Judea - one of the men responsible for Jesus's death
Vespasian
Veto
Pontius Pilate
Imperium
31. German Chieftain who overthrows Romulus Augustus and declares himself king of Italy
Nero
Rhea Silvia
Crossing the Rubicon
Odoacer
32. Religious power of the Emperor
Pontifex Maximus
Patres
Patres
Gladiators
33. Orator - famous speaker in the Senate who becomes a senator
Cicero
John the Baptist
Tiber River
Pompeii
34. 5th Julio-Claudian emperor - persecuted Christians - fire in Rome he blamed the Christians - however all of the other people blamed him - kicked pregnant wife to death - castrated and married a young boy (Sporus) made him look like his dead wife - fo
Sejanus
Pontifex Maximus
Philip V of Macedon
Nero
35. Religious power of the Emperor
Sabines
Caesarion
Pontifex Maximus
Rhea Silvia
36. Sister to Ptolemy XIII - Pharaoh of Egypt - had an affair with Caesar has an illegitimate child with Caesar - has 3 kids with Antony: Alexander Helios - Cleopatra Selene - and Ptolemy Philadelphos
Cassius
Jugurtha
Cleoptra XIII
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
37. Worked through the senate to get power
Pompey
Mark Antony
Imperator
Optimate
38. The second town that Numitor ruled
Pompeii
Popularis
Gladiators
Alba Longa
39. Augustus starts it - personal army for kings (emperors) of Rome - kind of like secret service
The Social War
Marius
The Triumvirate
Praetorian Guard
40. Carthage must be destroyed
Zealots
Plebeian Secession
Carthago delenda est
Cicero
41. Junior lieutenant sent to defeat army and does but they send Pompey who takes the glory
Crassus
Plebeian Secession
Pompey
Commodus
42. Last emperor of Rome - surrendered his crown to Odoacer
Mark Antony
Lucius Verus
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Milvian Bridge
43. Senator who traveled to Carthage to tell the Numidia to leave Carthage alone then he discover they had great resources - and he told rome about it and it started the 3rd Punic War - he kept on saying Carthago Delenda Est which means Carthage must be
Cato
Cicero
Julio-Claudian Emperors
The Social War
44. Slave who led the rebellion against Sicily - starts theFirst Servile War - which is a revolt against rich
Tiberius Gracchus
Eunus
The Triumvirate
Antonius Pius
45. City that Romulus founded on the Paletine Hill
The Triumvirate
Rome
Domitian
Praetorian Guard
46. City that Romulus founded on the Paletine Hill
Etruscans
Mithridates VI
Rome
Crassus
47. Fought for Scipio - reformer that tried to reduce the gap between rich and poor
Caligula
Hasdrubal
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
48. Last emperor of Rome - surrendered his crown to Odoacer
Antiochus III
Claudius
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
The Jugurthine War
49. What Cato said after every speech of his. Meaning - 'Rome must be destroyed.'
Rhea Silvia
Carthago Delanda est
Hasdrubal
Tiberius Gracchus
50. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Pompeii
Tiberius
The Edict of Milan
Patrician
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