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Ancient Rome Trivia
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1. Word for someone who follows one of the non-major religion today
Veto
Pagan
Pompey
Consuls
2. Military leader - goes against Rome - after he lost in Africa he was kicked out of Carthage
Palatine Hill
Hannibal Barca
Pontifex Maximus
Horatius
3. 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
Optimate
Messiah
Attila the Hun
Cato
4. Hellenized Jew - encouraged Greek culture - one of the people responsible for Jesus's death
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
King Herod
Scipio Aemilianus
Crossing the Rubicon
5. Hadrian's heir. Rule was boring besides Rome's 900th anniversary
Lucretia
Antonius Pius
Rhea Silvia
Scipio Aemilianus
6. Jesus's cousin - baptised Jesus - was the predcessor of Jesus
Vitellius
Republic
Lucius Verus
John the Baptist
7. 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
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Constantine
Antonius Pius
Vespasian
8. What Cato said after every speech of his. Meaning - 'Rome must be destroyed.'
Tiberius
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
Pax Romana
Carthago Delanda est
9. Military commander of the Emperor
Praetorian Guard
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Imperator
Tiber River
10. City that Romulus founded on the Paletine Hill
Syracuse
Attila the Hun
Rome
Battle of Actium
11. Son of Vespian helps him (Vespian) in the 'war' where the Jewish zealots proclaimed war on the Roman soldiers
Titus
Nero
Messina
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
12. The gladiators chose as their coach - very smart and strong - knew what to do in the 'battles'
Ptolemy XIII
Spartacus
Syracuse
Pax Romana
13. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Caractacus
Tarquin the Younger (the Proud)
Pompeii
Patrician
14. Emperor after Civil war - killed his brother/co-emperor - makes everyone within the boarders citizens
Caracalla
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Patres
Julio-Claudian Emperors
15. Minnows - killed by Sejanus Head of Praetorian Guard who wanted to rebel - Jesus died in his reign
Messiah
The Social War
Tiberius
Diocletian
16. Head of government - becomes senators at the end of term - serves a 1 year term - there is two of them
Consuls
Milvian Bridge
Battle of Pharsalus
Romulus
17. King of Pontus Sulla ends up leading army against him
Messina
Trajan (what a boss)
Mithridates VI
Gaius Gracchus
18. Military power of the emperor
Attila the Hun
Imperium
Christ
Tiberius Gracchus
19. Killed by Caesar - ordered death of Pompey - King and Egypt both - fighting against his sister to be ruler
Battle of Cannae
Ptolemy XIII
Optimate
Jesus's Commandments (concept)
20. Love the the Lord your God with all your heart - and Love your neighbor as you love yourself
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21. Conflict between Rome and Jugurtha and Rome wins Marius captures Jugurtha
The Jugurthine War
Proletariat
Sabines
Cicero
22. Worked through the senate to get power
Pompeii
Cato
Optimate
Remus
23. Right hand man of Sulla who gladiator war and others - comes home in glory
Carthago delenda est
Emperor Theodosius
Numidia
Pompey
24. Leader of the Seleucid Empire - alliances with Macedon
Cicero
Antiochus III
Galba
Marius
25. Rich people - gave funding for the campaigns of war
Cato
Patrician
The Social War
Antonius Pius
26. Place in Sicily
Marcus Aurelius
Pontifex Maximus
Caractacus
Syracuse
27. Anointed one - Jewish term for savior
Romulus
Spartacus
Julio-Claudian Emperors
Messiah
28. Right hand man of Sulla who gladiator war and others - comes home in glory
Brutus
Superbus
Palatine Hill
Pompey
29. Rule of three men - alliance between Crassus - Pompey and Caesar
The Triumvirate
Romulus
Octavian
Crassus
30. Tyrant of Syracuse used his power unjustly
Scipio Africanus
Milvian Bridge
Battle of Zama
Hiero II
31. I forbid
Carthago delenda est
Popularis
Messina
Veto
32. African kingdom - that allies with Rome
Palatine Hill
Jugurtha
Numidia
Romulus
33. Augustus starts it - personal army for kings (emperors) of Rome - kind of like secret service
Cassius
Odoacer
Praetorian Guard
Romulus
34. Carthage must be destroyed
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Carthago delenda est
Spartacus
Imperator
35. Became the Romans: one of the earliest tribes
Etruscans
The Edict of Milan
Sabines
Optimate
36. Political power of the Emperor
Hamilcar Barca
Etruscans
Nero
Princeps
37. When Plebeians went on strike from fighting
Cicero
Scipio Aemilianus
Caesarion
Plebeian Secession
38. 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
Battle of Cannae
Praetorian Guard
Marcus Aurelius
Cleoptra XIII
39. 4th Julio-Claudian emperor - 'half-wit' - conquered Britain (defeats Caractacus - The King of British tribes) - paranoid - poisoned by wife-Mushrooms and doctor-poison feather
Superbus
Galba
Claudius
Cato
40. Lowest class of people - usually farmers
Plebeian
Lavuniun
Imperator
Latins
41. Leader of the Huns from 434 to 453 CE - led the Hunds west into Germanic territory - threatening Rome
Antiochus III
Attila the Hun
Sabines
Pontius Pilate
42. Place in Sicily
Plebeian
Syracuse
Cicero
Tiberius
43. Earliest tribes in the area
Gladiators
Latins
Tiberius Gracchus
Parthia
44. Constantine's law that makes Christianity legal in Rome and declared that Christians must be tolerated
Romulus
Messiah
The Edict of Milan
Mark Antony
45. Virgin but was 'raped by Mars' she had twin boys - Romulus and Remus
Jugurtha
Brutus
Rhea Silvia
Tiberius
46. 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)
Crossing the Rubicon
Patres
Rome
47. Last emperor of Rome - surrendered his crown to Odoacer
Romulus Augustus (aka Romulus Augustulus)
Hadrian
Sulla
Romulus
48. Fought in Cannae - the Carthaginians won because they attacked the Romans from 4 sides
Battle of Cannae
Messiah
Tiber River
Syracuse
49. Town ruled by king Numitor
The Social War
Syracuse
Lavuniun
Zealots
50. Military and political leader - teams up with Crassus and Pompey - comes together with them to become powerful - was governor of Spain and Gaul
Gauis Julius Caesar
Pagan
Odoacer
Imperator
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