Roman Empire Quiz

This describes a political conflict

A portico is -----

• a public bathroom.

• a bridge.

• a watertight structure used for building in water.

• a covered walkway.

Which Roman leader split the Roman Empire in two?

• Diocletian

• Constantine

• Commodus

• Dio Cassius

Constantinople is known today as -----

• Istanbul

• Byzantium

• Rome

• Ilium

During much of the AD 200s the Roman Empire

• had an economy that suffered.

• had an economy that flurished.

• had an abundance of food

• had many strong rulers

Why did Constantine move the Roman Empire's capital from Rome to Byzantium?

• He feared the growing power of the Christians.

• He wanted the capital to be out of reach of the Parthians.

• It was well located for trade and easy to defend against attacks.

• the division of the empire into two parts by Diocletian

This describes an economic problem in the Roman Empire

This describes a political conflict among the causes for the fall of Rome.

This event describes an economic trouble for the Roman Empire:

The emperor Constantine created the city of Constantinople----

• as the capital city of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire

• to ward off the rise of Christianity

• as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire

• because Rome had been destroyed by the invasions of the Huns