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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. When italian people wanted full citizenship - went to war
Zealots
The Social War
Sabines
Milvian Bridge
2. Urban landless poor
Herod
Proletariat
Trajan (what a boss)
Antonius Pius
3. Was asked if he wanted to fight Rome - sided the Seleucid Empire - Rome won - he lost all of his rights
Sabines
Philip V of Macedon
Eunus
Carthage
4. Hadrian's heir. Rule was boring besides Rome's 900th anniversary
Milvian Bridge
Popularis
Antonius Pius
Princeps
5. Emperor after Civil war - killed his brother/co-emperor - makes everyone within the boarders citizens
Octavian
Romulus
Caracalla
Battle of Zama
6. Popular speaker said to be the son of God - tried to reform Jewish religion - accidentally started Christianity
Latifundia
Commodus
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
Jugurtha
7. Constantine's law that makes Christianity legal in Rome and declared that Christians must be tolerated
Pagan
Remus
The Edict of Milan
Plebeian Secession
8. Hannibal's brother who died in battle
Syracuse
Tiberius
Hasdrubal
Diocletian
9. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Res Publicas
Etruscans
Tiberius
The Jugurthine War
10. Marcus Aurelius' heir - open about his male lover his men killed him
Commodus
Constantine
Galba
Patrician
11. Right hand man of Sulla who gladiator war and others - comes home in glory
Nerva
Pompey
Cleoptra XIII
Horatius
12. Prosecutor of Jesus's followers - then converted to Christianity - spread it - created it
Pax Romana
Otho
St. Paul
Ptolemy XIII
13. The gladiators chose as their coach - very smart and strong - knew what to do in the 'battles'
Spartacus
Caesarion
Rhea Silvia
Republic
14. Body of government in which the citizens are entitled to vote - and choose who represents them
Claudius
Republic
The Social War
Tiberius
15. Nephew of King of Numidia - he killed his cousins so he could become the King - bribes Rome to stay in power
Spartacus
Mithridates VI
Jugurtha
Mark Antony
16. Constantine's law that makes Christianity legal in Rome and declared that Christians must be tolerated
Lucretia
Cleoptra XIII
The Edict of Milan
Jesus Christ (Jesús Christos)
17. Grandson of Scipio Africanus - fought against Carthage and defeated the whole civilization
Crassus
Veto
Scipio Aemilianus
Philip V of Macedon
18. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Tiber River
Carthago Delanda est
Plebeian
Rhea Silvia
19. Builds wall across Scotland to keep Celts in north
Spartacus
St. Paul
Domitian
Hadrian
20. Hellenized Jew - encouraged Greek culture - one of the people responsible for Jesus's death
King Herod
Horatius
Herod
Scipio Africanus
21. Many Jews that thought Jesus was a Messiah - and that he was going to oppose the Roman government
Battle of Pharsalus
Crossing the Rubicon
Zealots
Remus
22. Leader of the Praetorian Guard - planned to take over once Tiberius died. Tiberius found out and killed him.
Alba Longa
Superbus
Pompeii
Sejanus
23. Got raped by Tarquin the Younger's son - it is how Tarquin's rule came to an end.
Lucretia
Imperator
Messina
Caracalla
24. River that has a bridge that connects to Rome.
Carthago delenda est
Consuls
Vespasian
Tiber River
25. Became the Romans: one of the earliest tribes
Etruscans
Sabines
Scipio Africanus
Cassius
26. Roman leader who defeated Hannibal at the battle of Zama
Scipio Africanus
The Triumvirate
Carthage
St. Paul
27. Carthage must be destroyed
Res Publicas
Gladiators
Carthago delenda est
Crossing the Rubicon
28. King of Pontus Sulla ends up leading army against him
Tiberius
Mithridates VI
Tiber River
Zealots
29. Place in North Africa
Lucretia
Messiah
Carthage
King Herod
30. Military commander of the Emperor
Lucretia
Imperator
Zealots
Consuls
31. Marcus Aurelius' younger brother and co-emperor - fought against Parthia - died in the epidemic (seizures)
Latins
Lucius Verus
Commodus
Brutus
32. Love the the Lord your God with all your heart - and Love your neighbor as you love yourself
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33. 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
Battle of Pharsalus
Nero
Gaius Gracchus
Marcus Aurelius
34. Romulus' land that he shared with his brother - became the center of Rome.
Pontifex Maximus
Palatine Hill
Battle of Zama
Lucius Verus
35. Where Mount Vesuvius was located
Pax Romana
Pompeii
Cicero
Constantine
36. 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
Caesarion
Pagan
Attila the Hun
37. War between Constantine and Maxentius - where it was fought
Milvian Bridge
Scipio Africanus
Plebeian
Sabines
38. 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
Otho
Gaius Gracchus
Republic
Nero
39. Former bodyguard - killed his way into power - persecuted Christians - divided empire in two with 2 Augustus (emperors) - 2 Caesar (co-emperors)
Pompeii
Cato
Praetorian Guard
Diocletian
40. Worked through the senate to get power
Optimate
Cassius
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Battle of Pharsalus
41. 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
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Caligula
Sejanus
Battle of Actium
42. Caesar's great nephew forms the 2nd Triumvirate - youngest consul in history of Rome - becomes emperor of Rome
Lucius Verus
Antiochus III
Pagan
Octavian
43. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
Pax Romana
Battle of Cannae
Tiberius Gracchus
Domitian
44. Jesus's cousin - baptised Jesus - was the predcessor of Jesus
John the Baptist
Lucretia
Imperium
Veto
45. 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
Battle of Zama
Attila the Hun
The Gladiator War
Consuls
46. Caesar and Cleopatra's illegitimate son
Herod
Caesarion
Optimate
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
47. Urban landless poor
Jugurtha
Herod
Scipio Aemilianus
Proletariat
48. Killed by Caesar - ordered death of Pompey - King and Egypt both - fighting against his sister to be ruler
Claudius
Ptolemy XIII
Milvian Bridge
Optimate
49. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Praetorian Guard
Tiberius
Nerva
Carthago delenda est
50. 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
Cleoptra XIII
Veto
Tiber River
Republic