Ancient Roman Civilization Test Review

Pax Romana is the Latin term for the two-hundred-year period of Roman peace.

• True

• False

Julius Caesar fell in love with me, the queen of Egypt, and imported grain from my country into Rome.

• Athena

• Cupid

• Cleopatra

The form of government that Rome had after the people overthrew the Etruscan kings and that allowed people to vote

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• republic

The name of the series of battles between Rome and Carthage that lasted more than one hundred years

• The Punic Wars

• The Civil War

• Pax Romana

The first emperor of Rome was

• Julius Caesar

• Augustus Caesar

• Constantine the Great

A structure that brings water down from the mountains into the city

• the Circus Maximus

• a temple

• an aqueduct

Who discovered artifacts in the city of Pompeii thousands of years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

• Justinian

• archaeologists

• Nero

• the Greeks

What term refers to events that took place "Before Christ?"

• BC

• AD

According to legend, the emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned"

• Augustus Caesar

• Justinian

• Nero

• Constantine the Great

Who made a law against persecuting Christians in the Roman Empire?

• Augustus Caesar

• Nero

• Justinian

• Constantine the Great