Rise of Rome

What would you consider a gladiator?

• A person in ancient Rome who fought people or animals for public entertainment

• A dictator chosen by the consuls to defend Rome from attack

• A Roman general appointed for life in 44 A.D.

• An indigent living on the streets of Rome

What is a word for someone who is considered to be uncivilized and primitive?

• barbarian

• barbed wire

• beneficial

• belittled

Define a civil war.

• a war that ends well

• a war with no borders

• any war from the 3rd century on

• an armed conflict between groups within the same country

How would you define an aqueduct?

• A channel or pipe that carries water from a spring, stream, or lake into towns

• A body of land surrounded on three sides by water

• A legendary hero said to have founded Rome

• Leaders of Rome’s executive branch of government

What is a written form of formal communication; a letter?

• an epistle

• an orator

• an oral history

• a venn diagram

What do we call a pair of leaders of Rome’s executive branch of government?

• Parliment

• Senate

• Assembly

• Consul(s)

What do we call a group of mostly common farmers, who didn’t hold government positions?

• Patriarchs

• Patricians

• Plebeians

• Proletariat

What do we call a group made up of wealthy landowners & government officials?

• Power hungry mongrels

• Plebeians

• Patriarchs

• Patricians

What do we call a popular story from early times that cannot be proved?

• a horror story

• a tall tale

• a fib

• a legend

Define a mosaic.

• a map of the underground

• a picture made from tiny pieces of colored stone or other material

• one of a pair of leaders of Rome’s executive branch of government

• a Roman guard for Julius Caesar