What protected Rome from invasion?

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What protected Rome from invasion?

1. The Sahara
2. The Himalayas
3. The Alps

Alps
2
The Roman Republic was a

1. Direct democracy
2. Monarchy
3. Representative democracy

3
The majority of Romans were common people called

1. patricians
2. aristocrats
3. plebeians

4
The two officials elected to command the army and
direct the government for one year were called

• A. consuls
• B. dictators
• C. monarchs

5
The most powerful lawmaking body in the Roman
Republic was the

1. senate
2. assembly
3. emperor

6
For the most part, senators represented the
interests of the

1. patricians
2. dictators
3. plebeians

7
Who represented the interests of the plebeians in
the less powerful tribal assembly?

1. centuriates
2. tribunes
3. consuls

8
The Laws carved on tablets and hung in the Forum
were called the

• A. Code of Justinian
• B. Ten Commandments
• C. Twelve Tables

9
Which of these modern principles is taken from
Roman law?

• A. An eye for an eye, a life for a life.
• B. An accused person is innocent until proven
  guilty.
• C. All men are created equal.

10
The names of the planets are based on Roman

1. senators
2. emperors
3. gods

11
Three wars fought between Rome and Carthage were
called

1. Punic Wars
2. Persian Wars
3. Peloponnesian Wars

12
Who was the general of Carthage who crossed the
Alps and invaded the Italian Peninsula?

1. Scipio
2. Hannibal
3. Cicero

13
Following the Punic wars, Rome

• Declined
• Expanded slowly
• Grew rapidly

14
How did the spread of slavery cause problems for
the Roman Republic?

• It caused small farmers to lose their land
• It created racial tension
• It led to a civil war between the North and the
  South

15
What were some other factors leading to the
decline and fall of Romes republican government?

• A. unemployment, inflation, civil wars, class
  conflicts.
• B. the split in the Christian Church
• C. ice ages froze most of the northern hemisphere

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Who made up the First Triumvirate?

1. Augustus Caesar, Marc Antony and Lepidus
2. Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey.

Caesar Crassus Pompey
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Who is being described?

• He conquered Gaul
• He went to war with Pompey and won
• He forced the senate to make him dictator
• He was assassinated by senators

1. Augustus Caesar
2. Julius Caesar
3. Octavian

18
Ten years after the death of Julius Caesar, civil
war erupted between

• Pompey and Crassus
• Octavian and Mark Anthony
• Lepidus and Nero

Octavian (Augustus)
Anthony and Cleopatra
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Who was the first emperor of Rome?

1. Augustus (Octavian)
2. Marc Antony
3. Nero

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What was the Pax Romana?

1. Two hundred years of peace and prosperity
2. Roman Law
3. The fall of the Roman Empire

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All of the following are true about Rome during
the Pax Romana EXCEPT

• A. Augustus created a uniform system of money and
  a uniform system of law.
• B. Augustus created a civil service
• C. It was safe to travel and trade on Roman
  roads.
• D. Succession went smoothly when an emperor died

22
Which empire is pictured?

1. Persian
2. Roman
3. Egyptian

23
Which religion is being described?

• It had its roots in Judaism
• Jesus is both the Son and incarnation of God.
• Life after death
• New Testament

1. Islam
2. Christianity
3. Zoroastrianism

24
Who Spread Christianity throughout the Roman
Empire?

• Asoka and his missionaries
• St. Cyril and St. Methodius
• C. the Apostles, including Paul

25
Why were the early Christians persecuted?

1. They led a rebellion against the Empire
2. They tried to free the slaves
3. They refused to worship the Roman Gods

26
Christian doctrine was established by early
church

1. patriarchs
2. popes
3. councils

The First Council of Nicaea
27
As the Roman Empire declined in the West, the
influence and membership of the Christian Church

1. declined
2. grew
3. stayed the same

28

• The scattering of the Jews after being exiled
  from Israel by the Romans is called the

1. Diaspora
2. Torah
3. Big shake-up

29
All of the following are causes for the decline
of the Roman Empire EXCEPT?

• MAD PIE

• A. Moral decay
• B. Army discipline
• C. Division of empire
• D. Political problems
• E. Invasions
• F. Economic growth

30
Germanic invaders poured into the ___ part of the
Empire

1. Eastern
2. Southeastern
3. Western

31
Which Roman emperor adopted and legalized
Christianity and move the capital of the Roman
Empire to the East?

1. Caligula
2. Constantine
3. Augustus

32
The eastern part of the Roman Empire survived and
became known as the

1. Islamic Empire
2. Spanish Empire
3. Byzantine Empire

33
These well-engineered structures helped trade
flow smoothly throughout the Roman Empire.

• Domes
• Minarets
• Roads

34
Romans used these curved structures as memorials
in addition to supporting buildings, bridges, and
aqueducts

1. columns
2. arches
3. domes

35
Romans designed these to bring water from the
mountains to the cities.

1. aqueducts
2. pails
3. aquariums

36
The political and economic heart of Rome was the

1. Town Center
2. Forum
3. Gaul

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What is the name of the building pictured?

1. Colosseum
2. Parthenon
3. Pantheon

38
What is the name of the building pictured?

1. Colosseum
2. Dome of the Rock
3. Pantheon

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The Aeneid was written by the Roman poet

• Homer
• B. Virgil
• C. Sophocles

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Who designed an Earth-centered, (wrong) model of
the universe that was held as truth for 1400
years.

• Ptolemy
• Phidias
• Plato