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Ancient Rome

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. What Roman achievement is shown in the image?

a)
  1.  Pyramids

b)
  1. Great Wall

c)
  1. Parthenon

d)
  1. Coliseum

2.

What was the name of the Roman system of laws?

a)

Hammurabi's Code

b)

12 Tables

c)

The laws of Ancient Rome

d)

The Roman Code of Laws

3.
  1. All the following are Roman technological advancements EXCEPT?  

a)
  1. roads

b)
  1. arches and domes 

c)
  1. aqueducts

d)
  1. paper and the decimal system

4.
  1. The Twelve Tables and Hammurabi’s Code are similar in that both provided

a)
  1. means of achieving social equality

b)
  1. a standardized system of laws

c)
  1. the freedom to practice any religion

d)
  1. the right to a public education

5.

Who were the two brothers who were said to have founded Rome?

a)

Caesar and Brutus

b)

Hercules and Zeus

c)

Achilles and Hector

d)

Romulus and Remus

6.

Which river is Rome located on?

a)

Tiber

b)

Ganges

c)

Danube

d)

Nile

7.

A government where citizens elect their leaders.

a)

monarchy

b)

republic

c)

oligarchy

d)

pantheon

8.

The laws of Rome were known as...

a)

The Senate's Rules

b)


Draco's Laws

c)

The Ten Commandments

d)

The Twelve Tables

9.

________are 2 officials elected by the senators who serve for 1-year terms. 

a)

Consuls

b)

Senators

c)

Tribunes

d)

Dictators

10.

Wealthy landowners who had most of the power in Rome. 

a)

Plebeians

b)

Patricians

c)

Daimyo

d)

Bolsheviks

11.

Who were Romulus and Remus?

a)


Friends who conquered the Etruscans and founded Rome

b)

Twin brothers who led to the founding of Rome

c)

Germanic Generals who conquered the Late Roman Empire

d)

Ancient Greek Colonizers who founded the City of Syracuse

12.

What is the name of the structure seen here?

a)

The Parthenon

b)

The Arena

c)

The Colossos

d)

The Colosseum

13.

Which group had the most power?

a)

Patricians

b)

Plebeians

14.

The average person in the Roman Republic was an artisan, merchant, or farmer. What social class were they are part of?

a)

Punics

b)

Slaves

c)

Plebeians

d)

Patricians

15.

Locate the Roman Empire on the map.

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

16.

Name the civilization that Rome "borrowed" it's culture from.

a)

Greece

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

China

d)

Persia

17.

This peninsula is where the Roman Empire began allowing the Romans to benefit from trade and is its present day country:

a)

Greece

b)

India

c)

England

d)

Italy

18.

A republic is...

a)

Government by the people through their elected representatives

b)

Government by the whole population or all eligible citizens

c)

Government ruled by a king

d)

Government ruled by a small group of people

19.

Rome went through 3 styles of government. Which of these was NOT one of them?

a)

Monarchy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Republic

d)

Empire

20.

Which series of wars is best described by this list?

a)

Peloponnesian War

b)


Punic Wars

c)

Trojan War

d)

Persian War

21.

What happened on the Ides of March? (March 15 44BC)

a)

Jesus was born

b)

Rome was founded

c)

Julius Caesar was stabbed to death

d)

The Roman Empire split into 2 parts

22.

Roman general, statesman, Member of the First Triumvirate and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire

a)

Julius Caesar

b)

Octavian

c)

Caesar Augustus

d)

Cicero