Quiz 9B review

Where is Rome located?

• on the island of Sicily

• on the Italian Peninsula

• off the coast of Africa

• nestled in the Italian Alps

Most countries use a version of Caesar's calendar, called the _____________ calendar.

• Gregorian

• Roman

• Julian

• Caesarian

Why did the Second Punic War begin?

• Hannibal's soldiers formed a U-shaped trap around the enemy

• Carthage violated its treaty with Rome

• Caesar had been assasinated

• Caesar refused to disband his army and marched into Rome

What happened on the Ides of March?

• Three men formed the Triumvirate

• People began using the Caesarian calendar

• The Second Punic War came to an end

• Brutus and Cassius assassinated Caesar

Why did Hannibal march his soldiers across the Alps?

• He did not want the Romans to see him

• His war elephants worked better in the mountains

• He thought he would defeat Spain along the way

• His superiors instructed him to go that way

General in the Carthaginian Army

• Mark Antony

• Octavian

• Hannibal

• Pompey

Caesar's nephew who won the Battle of Actium

• Sulla

• Pompey

• Octavian

• Mark Antony

Declared himself dictator and reorganized the government

• Hannibal

• Sulla

• Pompey

• Mark Antony

Popular with the Senate for ridding the Mediterranean Sea of pirates

• Pompey

• Sulla

• Hannibal

• Octavian

General under Julius Caesar

• Mark Antony

• Octavian

• Pompey

• Sulla