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WorksheetsAncient Rome
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 20mins
1. Before Rome was founded, who lived in the Northern part of Italy?
Tunisians
Grecians
Sicilians
Etruscans
2. What was the Eastern Roman Empire known as?
The Capital of Rome
The Byzantine Empire
Athenian Empire
Median Empire
3. By the year 500, the western half of the Roman Empire had fallen. Which of these is NOT a cause of the fall...
Change in climate and weather
Weakening frontiers
Economic and social issues
Political instability
4. What type of tribes were attacking the Roman borders frequently and relentlessly around the time of the collapse of the empire?
Monarch or King
Germanic or Barbarian
Nobles
They were only attacked after the empire fell.
5. Citizens of the Roman Empire had to pay heavy taxes to finance large _______________.
art projects
schools
churches
armies
6. What is the name of the active volcano that erupted in Italy and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum?
Mount McKinley
Mount Vesuvius
Mount St. Helens
Mount Krakatosa
7. What did the Romans call the uncultured people who attacked Rome's borders?
Barbarians
Mauraders
Savages
Enemies
8. Who fought in the Punic War?
Rome and Carthage
Athens and Spartans
Romans and Greece
Carthage and Phoenicians
9. What does the Pax Romana refer to?
The scrolls containing Roman laws
A treaty between Rome and Greece
The system of Roman government
A period of Roman peace
10. Which Roman emperor was the first to declare Christianity the official religion of Rome?
Titus
Julius Caesar
Caesar Augustus
Theodosius
11. Which emperor divided the Roman Empire because he believed it would keep it safer?
Diocletian
Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
Emperor Caracalla
12. What did the Romans build to bring water from the springs to the city?
sewer pipe made out of wood
aqueducts
puquious
special copper pipes
13. According to legend, who founded Rome?
Julius Caesar
Romulus
Remus
Zeus
Cronus
14. What is the meaning of veto in Latin?
I deny
I refuse
I will obey
I forbid
15. Where is the city of Carthage?
On the island of Sicily bordering the Mediterranean Sea
On the coast of the Adriatic Sea in the country of Italy
In the country of Canaan which is modern day Israel
On the northern coast of Africa in modern day Tunisia
16. What did Diocletian and Maximian do that shocked the Roman world?
a. They divided the Roman Empire
b. They invaded Britain
c. They crucified two Jewish leaders
d. They stepped down as emperors
17. What did the Romans do to the Jewish temple?
They burned it down
They turned it into a temple to the goddess Athena
They desecrated the holy relics
They used it as a hospital for Roman soldiers
18. Emperor Severus had Roman builders inscribe a motto on the buildings throughout the land. What was this motto?
Let none escape utter destruction at our hands.
Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn everybody else.
Come, give it to us, if we have anything to do!
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
19. An official who was like a king was a ______________.
legion
senator
consul
patrician
20. Why did a group of Senators murder Julius Caesar?
because he was unpopular
to destroy the Republic and restore a monarchy
they were afraid of him
they believed he had too much power
21. The last king to rule Rome, he was driven out of power because of his harsh rule.
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Octavian Augustus
Tarquin the Proud
22. What body of water did the Romans use for trading?
Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Aegean Sea
23. The Romans were great builders. They developed the _______________ which was used in aqueducts and the Colosseum.
steeple
door
road
arch
24. The ancient Romans competed in several different athletic events. They also considered the _____________ fights at the Colosseum as sports.
boxing
sporting
gladiator
outdoor
25. What was the Great Roman Peace?
a disease that killed most of the people of Rome
a peace treaty between Rome and Athens
the name the Romans gave the Latin Language
200 years of peace in the Roman Empire
26. The wealthy Roman class of landowners were known as...
Plebeians
Patriots
Praetors
Patricians
27. _________ was a Roman Emperor converted to Christianity after his victory in battle.
Constantine
Caesar
Romulus
Solomon
28. Roman officials feared Jesus' message because they thought it might _________________________________.
bring peace to the region
threaten law and order
ruin the Jewish holiday
cause Romans to leave the city
29. The giant arena where the Romans watched gladiators battle against each other and wild animals was called the...
Circus Maximus
Forum
Stadium Maximus
Colosseum
30. The first Roman emperor was
Julius Caesar
Octavius
Constantine I
Theodosius I
31. After the death of Constantine, this city was named after him.
Turkey
Crete
Constantinople
Mesopotamia
32. A ritual cleansing by plunging into water.
swimming
diving
backstroke
baptism
33. coming back to life
reappear
resurrection
reincarnation
reestablish
34. a slow and painful Roman method of execution
slaughter
enslavement
crucifixion
entrapment
35. What is a general rise in the cost of goods.
inflation
taxes
payment
bills
