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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. African kingdom - that allies with Rome
Corvus
Numidia
Mark Antony
Titus
2. Worked through the people to get power
Praetorian Guard
Veto
Octavian
Popularis
3. Commander of Carthage during first Punic War - had to stop ruling because Carthage started to run out of resources
Superbus
Hamilcar Barca
Hiero II
Corvus
4. Augustus - Tiberius - Caligula - Cladius - Nero
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Proletariat
Latins
5. General for Roman army - captures Jugurtha - 6 times consul - 5 times in a row - was taken over by Sulla - he was exiled from Rome
Battle of Pharsalus
Marius
Messina
Gladiators
6. 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
The Triumvirate
Patrician
Commodus
Caligula
7. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Scipio Africanus
Vitellius
Marcus Aurelius
Plebeian
8. Got raped by Tarquin the Younger's son - it is how Tarquin's rule came to an end.
Cassius
Mark Antony
Lucretia
Julio-Claudian Emperors
9. City that Romulus founded on the Paletine Hill
Cassius
Rome
St. Paul
Constantine
10. Where Mount Vesuvius was located
Spartacus
Caesarion
Pompeii
The Triumvirate
11. Battle between Pompey and Caesar - Caesar wins
Cleoptra XIII
Octavian
Battle of Pharsalus
Julio-Claudian Emperors
12. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Horatius
Plebeian
The Social War
Caractacus
13. Overall amazing - treats senate well - military guy - fair rule - campaigns for good of Rome - conquers Armenia don't ask/don't tell policy for Christians
Trajan (what a boss)
Praetorian Guard
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
14. Right hand man of Sulla who gladiator war and others - comes home in glory
Optimate
Vespasian
Pompey
Caesarion
15. Leader of the Huns from 434 to 453 CE - led the Hunds west into Germanic territory - threatening Rome
Carthago delenda est
Attila the Hun
Rhea Silvia
Mithridates VI
16. Military commander of the Emperor
Imperator
Numidia
Philip V of Macedon
Odoacer
17. Overall amazing - treats senate well - military guy - fair rule - campaigns for good of Rome - conquers Armenia don't ask/don't tell policy for Christians
Trajan (what a boss)
Philip V of Macedon
Messiah
Octavian
18. Military leader - goes against Rome - after he lost in Africa he was kicked out of Carthage
Hannibal Barca
Imperator
Antiochus III
Tiberius Gracchus
19. Hannibal's brother who died in battle
Octavian
Lucretia
King Herod
Hasdrubal
20. Marcus Aurelius' younger brother and co-emperor - fought against Parthia - died in the epidemic (seizures)
Pax Romana
Lucius Verus
Plebeian Secession
Titus
21. Battle between Pompey and Caesar - Caesar wins
Gladiators
Messina
Vitellius
Battle of Pharsalus
22. Hadrian's heir. Rule was boring besides Rome's 900th anniversary
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Antonius Pius
Ptolemy XIII
Corvus
23. Greek colony
Tiberius Gracchus
Hannibal Barca
Messina
Trajan (what a boss)
24. Major enemy with Rome - allianced on and off with Rome
Parthia
Palatine Hill
Remus
Proletariat
25. Military commander of the Emperor
The Edict of Milan
Romulus
Proletariat
Imperator
26. Cannot propose laws but can veto laws - 10 in the Government - Serve for one year
Tribune
Praetorian Guard
Philip V of Macedon
Antonius Pius
27. Emperor after Civil war - killed his brother/co-emperor - makes everyone within the boarders citizens
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Caracalla
Hasdrubal
Mark Antony
28. Marcus Aurelius' younger brother and co-emperor - fought against Parthia - died in the epidemic (seizures)
Battle of Cannae
Commodus
Lucius Verus
Pompey
29. Son of Vespian helps him (Vespian) in the 'war' where the Jewish zealots proclaimed war on the Roman soldiers
Titus
Octavian
Marcus Aurelius
Odoacer
30. Caesar and Cleopatra's illegitimate son
Carthago delenda est
Sulla
Lucretia
Caesarion
31. Last emperor of Rome - surrendered his crown to Odoacer
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Princeps
Proletariat
32. Urban landless poor
Popularis
Proletariat
Etruscans
Alba Longa
33. Became the Romans: one of the earliest tribes
Vitellius
Pompeii
Sabines
Julio-Claudian Emperors
34. Many Jews that thought Jesus was a Messiah - and that he was going to oppose the Roman government
Odoacer
Zealots
Praetorian Guard
Tiber River
35. Proud
Numidia
The Triumvirate
Carthago Delanda est
Superbus
36. King - roman governor of Syria - secular king of the Jews
Herod
Nero
Veto
Tiberius Gracchus
37. What Cato said after every speech of his. Meaning - 'Rome must be destroyed.'
Carthago Delanda est
Remus
Titus
Constantine
38. Romulus' land that he shared with his brother - became the center of Rome.
Mark Antony
Tiber River
Palatine Hill
Jugurtha
39. Body of government in which the citizens are entitled to vote - and choose who represents them
Ptolemy XIII
Republic
Titus
Caractacus
40. Slave who led the rebellion against Sicily - starts theFirst Servile War - which is a revolt against rich
Eunus
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Mark Antony
Odoacer
41. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Veto
Rhea Silvia
Patres
Pax Romana
42. Grandson of Scipio Africanus - fought against Carthage and defeated the whole civilization
Scipio Aemilianus
Constantine
The Social War
Tiber River
43. Tyrant of Syracuse used his power unjustly
Battle of Cannae
Nero
Hiero II
Carthago Delanda est
44. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Tiberius
Rhea Silvia
Patrician
Caesarion
45. Junior lieutenant sent to defeat army and does but they send Pompey who takes the glory
Jugurtha
Crassus
John the Baptist
Carthago Delanda est
46. Body of government in which the citizens are entitled to vote - and choose who represents them
Lucius Verus
Palatine Hill
Pompey
Republic
47. Religious power of the Emperor
Battle of Zama
Corvus
Brutus
Pontifex Maximus
48. Conflict between Rome and Jugurtha and Rome wins Marius captures Jugurtha
Lavuniun
Rhea Silvia
Battle of Pharsalus
The Jugurthine War
49. Elected by senate - makes Trajan heir - set precedent for choosing heir based merit
Rome
Horatius
Nerva
Sulla
50. I forbid
Tribune
Hannibal Barca
Veto
Diocletian