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What is the Tiber?What is the Tiber?

This is the river that This is the river that runs through the city of runs through the city of

Rome. Rome.

What are the Alps?What are the Alps?

These mountains These mountains separate Italy from the separate Italy from the

rest of Europe.rest of Europe.

What was malaria?What was malaria?

This was a problem for This was a problem for Romans due to marshy Romans due to marshy land and mosquitoes.land and mosquitoes.

What are the Iberian, the What are the Iberian, the Balkan, and the Italian Balkan, and the Italian

Peninsulas?Peninsulas?

These are the three main These are the three main peninsulas of the peninsulas of the

Mediterranean Sea.Mediterranean Sea.

What are the Apennine What are the Apennine Mts.?Mts.?

These are the mountains These are the mountains that form the spine of Italy that form the spine of Italy or run down the center of or run down the center of

the country.the country.

What is a republic?What is a republic?

This is the type of This is the type of government in which government in which

designated voters elect their designated voters elect their leaders.leaders.

What was a consul?What was a consul?

This was the Roman elected This was the Roman elected position that served for one position that served for one

year and ran the year and ran the government and government and

commanded the army.commanded the army.

What was the Roman What was the Roman Senate?Senate?

This was the most important This was the most important of the governing bodies of of the governing bodies of Rome made up of 300 men Rome made up of 300 men who controlled public funds who controlled public funds

and foreign policy.and foreign policy.

Who were the Patricians Who were the Patricians and the Plebeians?and the Plebeians?

These were the two distinct These were the two distinct classes of citizens in Roman classes of citizens in Roman

society.society.

What was a praetor?What was a praetor?

This was the position of This was the position of judge and also military judge and also military commander in Roman commander in Roman

society .society .

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What were the Punic What were the Punic Wars?Wars?

These were a series of These were a series of wars that were fought wars that were fought

between Rome and between Rome and Carthage 264 –146 B.C.Carthage 264 –146 B.C.

Who were Gaius Marius Who were Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla?and Lucius Cornelius Sulla?These were the two These were the two

Roman generals who Roman generals who fought a bloody civil war fought a bloody civil war for control of Rome in 79 for control of Rome in 79

B.C.B.C.

Who were Caesar, Who were Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey?Crassus, and Pompey?

These generals made up These generals made up the First Triumvirate of the First Triumvirate of

Rome in 60 B.C.Rome in 60 B.C.

Who was Octavian or Who was Octavian or Caesar Augustus?Caesar Augustus?

He was the victor of the He was the victor of the Second Triumvirate and Second Triumvirate and the battle of Actium in the battle of Actium in

31 B.C..31 B.C..

Who were Caligula and Who were Caligula and Nero?Nero?These are the two worst These are the two worst

Julian emperors, one Julian emperors, one appointed his horse consul, appointed his horse consul, and the other supposedly and the other supposedly

played the lyre and recited played the lyre and recited poems while Rome burned.poems while Rome burned.

What was the Pax What was the Pax Romana?Romana?

This is long period of This is long period of peace in Roman history peace in Roman history

from 27 B.C. to A.D. from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180.180.

What were aqueducts?What were aqueducts?

These were the bridge-like These were the bridge-like structures that brought fresh structures that brought fresh

water into Roman citieswater into Roman cities

What was the Code of the What was the Code of the Twelve Tables?Twelve Tables?

This was the Roman code of This was the Roman code of laws that helped govern laws that helped govern

society, and allowed judges society, and allowed judges to expand and set legal to expand and set legal

precedents.precedents.

What were the Circus What were the Circus Maximus and the Maximus and the

Coliseum?Coliseum?These were the two arenas These were the two arenas that were built for chariot that were built for chariot

races and gladiator combat.races and gladiator combat.

Who were Ovid, Horace, Who were Ovid, Horace, and Virgil?and Virgil?

These were the three These were the three famous Roman Poets.famous Roman Poets.

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What were Rabbis?What were Rabbis?

These were Jewish These were Jewish scholars learned in the scholars learned in the

holy scriptures.holy scriptures.

Who was Pontius Pilate?Who was Pontius Pilate?

He was the Roman He was the Roman governor of Jerusalem governor of Jerusalem

and consented to Jesus’ and consented to Jesus’ crucifixion. crucifixion.

Who were Mathew, Mark, Who were Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John?Luke, and John?

These were the four writers These were the four writers of the gospels that told the of the gospels that told the

story of Jesus Christ.story of Jesus Christ.

Who was Saul or Paul of Who was Saul or Paul of Tarsus?Tarsus?This was the former This was the former

Jewish merchant who Jewish merchant who converted to Christianity converted to Christianity

and with his writings and with his writings helped spread the helped spread the

Christian faith.Christian faith.

Who were martyrs?Who were martyrs?This was the word given to This was the word given to Christians who refused to Christians who refused to

give up their faith and give up their faith and were fed to the lions in the were fed to the lions in the

Coliseum or crucified.Coliseum or crucified.

What is inflation?What is inflation?

This is the rise in prices This is the rise in prices while the medium of while the medium of

exchange decreases in exchange decreases in value.value.

What were the collegia?What were the collegia?These were the Roman These were the Roman

workers trade associations workers trade associations and all workers in the city and all workers in the city of Rome were forced to of Rome were forced to join them so they would join them so they would

not leave the city.not leave the city.

Who was Constantine and Who was Constantine and Diocletian?Diocletian?

These were the two Roman These were the two Roman emperors that were emperors that were

successful in postponing successful in postponing the collapse of Rome until the collapse of Rome until

A.D. 476.A.D. 476.

Who were the Huns?Who were the Huns?

This was the barbarian This was the barbarian tribe that forced the tribe that forced the

Germanic tribes to flee into Germanic tribes to flee into Rome and hasten the end Rome and hasten the end

of the Empire.of the Empire.

What was the Roman What was the Roman Catholic Church?Catholic Church?This is the institution in the This is the institution in the

west that replaces the west that replaces the Roman Empire and gives Roman Empire and gives

the people of western the people of western Europe some hope Europe some hope

through the Dark Ages.through the Dark Ages.