Rome Fast and Curious

Which of the following classes would you belong to if you were a farmer in ancient Rome?

• slaves

• patricians

• plebeians

• nobles

Although Julius Caesar built the largest empire in the known world, a group of patricians killed him because they were afraid he wanted to become a(n)

• dictator

• emperor

• general

• king

According to Roman legend, what animal rescued and raised the twin boys, Romulus and Remus?

• a wolf

• a fox

• a bear

• a lion

The Punic wars were fought over control of which major body of water?

• the Tiber River

• the Mediterranean Sea

• the Adriatic Sea

• the Tyrrhenian Sea

Which people conquered the region of Italy that included Rome in 800 BCE?

• Phoneicians

• Etruscans

• Assyrians

• Carthaginians