6th Grade CLE: pp. 4-9

boot-shaped country which juts down from Europe into the Mediterranean - Rome is its capital

• Italy
• Greece
• Sicily
• Crete

Town in southern Italy which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD

• Pompeii
• Rome
• Troy
• Athens

Triangular island located just to the west of the toe of Italy.  Mt. Aetna is located on this island.  It was said that the monster Typhon was imprisoned underneath this mountain after his unsuccessful attack upon Zeus. 

• Sicily
• Crete
• Tiber
• Athens

River which flows on the north side of Rome.  Romulus and Remus were left to die near the bank of this river, but a she-wolf nursed them until they were found by a passing shepherd. 

• Tiber
• Styx
• Ohio
• Lethe

A statement which demonstrates the sophisticated and extensive road system which the Romans created throughout the Mediterranean world

• All roads lead to Rome
• Rome wasn't built in a day
• veni, vidi, vici
• the Ides of March

In this quote from the New Testament (written in the Greek language), Jesus explains that he is the beginning and the end. 

• alpha & omega
• veni, vidi, vici
• Beware the Ides of March
• Nero fiddled while Rome burned

Quote from William Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar.  A prophet spoke these words to Caesar to warn him about the conspiracy against his life. 

• Beware the Ides of March
• veni, vidi, vici
• alpha & omega
• All roads lead to Rome

Day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. 

• Ides of March
• March 1st
• March 30th
• Kalens of March

this emperor fiddled while Rome burned in 64 A.D.

• Nero
• Constantine
• Augustus
• Julius Caesar

Famous words of Julius Caesar which mean ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.’ 

• veni, vidi, vici
• Et tu, Brute
• alea iacta est
• quid pro quo