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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Milvian Bridge
Patrician
Praetorian Guard
Plebeian
2. Tyrant of Syracuse used his power unjustly
Hiero II
Battle of Zama
Tiberius
Republic
3. Rule of three men - alliance between Crassus - Pompey and Caesar
Crassus
Philip V of Macedon
Etruscans
The Triumvirate
4. Popular speaker said to be the son of God - tried to reform Jewish religion - accidentally started Christianity
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Carthage
Res Publicas
Crossing the Rubicon
5. Commander of the German forces - army said they wanted him as Imperator
Philip V of Macedon
Vitellius
Republic
Hiero II
6. Word for someone who follows one of the non-major religion today
Galba
Pagan
Hadrian
Sulla
7. King - roman governor of Syria - secular king of the Jews
Herod
Popularis
Battle of Zama
Attila the Hun
8. Military power of the emperor
Plebeian Secession
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Cato
Imperium
9. 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
Imperium
Galba
Veto
Nero
10. Conflict between Rome and Jugurtha and Rome wins Marius captures Jugurtha
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
The Jugurthine War
Horatius
Remus
11. African kingdom - that allies with Rome
Tiberius
Pompey
Numidia
Plebeian
12. 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
Battle of Actium
Gaius Gracchus
Caracalla
13. Romulus' land that he shared with his brother - became the center of Rome.
Attila the Hun
Commodus
Jugurtha
Palatine Hill
14. Worked through the senate to get power
Scipio Aemilianus
Sulla
Gauis Julius Caesar
Optimate
15. Last emperor of Rome - surrendered his crown to Odoacer
Battle of Zama
Battle of Actium
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Hamilcar Barca
16. Roman governor of Judea - one of the men responsible for Jesus's death
Hamilcar Barca
Christ
Pontius Pilate
Proletariat
17. Grandson of Scipio Africanus - fought against Carthage and defeated the whole civilization
Gaius Gracchus
Sejanus
Lucretia
Scipio Aemilianus
18. River that has a bridge that connects to Rome.
Consuls
Tiber River
Hadrian
Pax Romana
19. General for Roman army - captures Jugurtha - 6 times consul - 5 times in a row - was taken over by Sulla - he was exiled from Rome
Gladiators
Scipio Aemilianus
Princeps
Marius
20. General for Roman army - captures Jugurtha - 6 times consul - 5 times in a row - was taken over by Sulla - he was exiled from Rome
Galba
Syracuse
Marius
Rome
21. People living in Estrucania who attacked Romans
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Consuls
Etruscans
Tiberius
22. City that Romulus founded on the Paletine Hill
Rome
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Zealots
Hasdrubal
23. Military commander of the Emperor
Proletariat
Octavian
Imperator
Commodus
24. The gladiators chose as their coach - very smart and strong - knew what to do in the 'battles'
Hadrian
Hiero II
Caractacus
Spartacus
25. Galba's right hand man - named Imperator by Praetorian Guard - senate unhappily named him princep as well - almost went into a Civil War with Vitellius but instead killed himself so he would not have to go into a Civil War
Otho
Tiber River
Sulla
Commodus
26. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Rhea Silvia
Numidia
Commodus
Sabines
27. Marius' assistant - his army comes through Rome and fights Marius
Gladiators
Sulla
Marcus Aurelius
Mithridates VI
28. Augustus starts it - personal army for kings (emperors) of Rome - kind of like secret service
Praetorian Guard
Syracuse
Odoacer
Pompey
29. Hellenized Jew - encouraged Greek culture - one of the people responsible for Jesus's death
Trajan (what a boss)
Corvus
King Herod
Trajan (what a boss)
30. Place in North Africa
St. Paul
Carthage
Antonius Pius
Nero
31. When Plebeians went on strike from fighting
Battle of Actium
Pompey
Republic
Plebeian Secession
32. Made Christianity the official religion of Rome - ended the Olympics
Emperor Theodosius
Herod
The Triumvirate
Cicero
33. Worked through the senate to get power
Sabines
Gladiators
Optimate
Nero
34. I forbid
Alba Longa
Gladiators
Carthage
Veto
35. Fought in Zama which is located in Northern Africa - Between Romans(Scipio Africanus) and Carthaginians(Hannibal Barca) - Uses Hannibal's tactic against him
Latifundia
Palatine Hill
Battle of Zama
Pontifex Maximus
36. Prosecutor of Jesus's followers - then converted to Christianity - spread it - created it
Diocletian
Alba Longa
St. Paul
Attila the Hun
37. Junior lieutenant sent to defeat army and does but they send Pompey who takes the glory
The Jugurthine War
Alba Longa
Crassus
Patres
38. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Ptolemy XIII
Tiberius
Emperor Theodosius
Mark Antony
39. Period of piece in Rome 200 years
Pax Romana
Milvian Bridge
Scipio Africanus
Sejanus
40. 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
The Triumvirate
Cato
Etruscans
Caracalla
41. Town ruled by king Numitor
Sabines
Ptolemy XIII
Philip V of Macedon
Lavuniun
42. Earliest tribes in the area
Trajan (what a boss)
Plebeian Secession
Latins
Pagan
43. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Plebeian
Vitellius
Patrician
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
44. Cannot propose laws but can veto laws - 10 in the Government - Serve for one year
Republic
Tribune
Carthago delenda est
Pontius Pilate
45. Didn't give up when attacked by Etruscans—saved the Romans.
St. Paul
Numidia
Horatius
Carthago delenda est
46. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Patrician
Ptolemy XIII
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
47. Got raped by Tarquin the Younger's son - it is how Tarquin's rule came to an end.
Lucretia
Ptolemy XIII
Octavian
Latins
48. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
Brutus
Battle of Cannae
Herod
Sabines
49. Caesar and Cleopatra's illegitimate son
Syracuse
Res Publicas
Hiero II
Caesarion
50. Word for someone who follows one of the non-major religion today
Pagan
Tiberius Gracchus
Crassus
Scipio Aemilianus