Rome Review

What was "bread and circuses?"

• a way to keep the people from revolting

• a way to torture the people

• a way to get people into one place

• a way to give the people fancy food to eat

What building do you see here?

• The Colosseum

• Circus Maximus

• Circus Minimus

• The Gladiatorium

This map shows the height of which empire?

• Rome

• Greece

• Carthage

• Britain

Which figures of early Roman history are seen in this picture?

• Romulus and Remus

• Aeneas and his little brother

• Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus

• Mrs. Lee and her brother, David

How did the Romans keep people from getting too much power?

• a system of checks and balances

• they killed anyone who got too powerful

• they put dictators in charge of everything

• they didn't have a government

Which religion did most Romans practice in the EARLY days of the republic?

• they were polytheistic

• they were monotheistic

• Christianity

• Judaism

How did Romans treat conquered people who didn't share their religious beliefs?

• left them alone unless they became a political problem

• forced them to convert to the Romans' polytheistic beliefs

• converted to the new religion and abandoned their own

What society's religion did Romans base their polytheistic beliefs on?

• Greek

• Mesopotamian

• Egyptian

• Indian

Roman gods were modeled after

• Greek gods

• Mesopotamian gods

• Julius Caesar

• Egyptian gods

Which group was the wealthiest in Rome?

• plebeians

• patricians