Roman History 2022- All Levels
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1. How many kings did Rome have?

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2. In what year did the western Roman Empire “fall”?

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3. Who was the first Roman Emperor?

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4. What enemy of Rome is famous for bringing elephants over the Alps?

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5. Who won the first Spolia Opima?

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6. In what year was a force of nearly 70,000 Romans slaughtered at the battle of Cannae?
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7. Where did Julius Caesar finally defeat Vercengetorix in 52 BC?
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8. How many emperors ruled in 69 A.D.?
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9. Where was the Gens Fabia nearly wiped out by a force from the city of Veii in 477 B.C.?
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10. What battle ended the Second Macedonian War in 197 B.C.?
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11. Who legalized Christianity?
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12. The assassination of the tribune Marcus Livius Drusus in 91 BC began what war?
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13. Who commanded the victorious Samnite forces at the battle of the Caudine Forks?

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14. Which king of Rome colonized Ostia?

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15. Where did the Romans suffer a terrible defeat at the hands of the Cimbri and Teutones in 105 B.C.?
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16. What Roman general led the ten year siege of Veii and was called the second founder of Rome?

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17. The type of government led by 2 annually elected officials.
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18. Who was the commander of Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the First Punic War?
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19. Which province of Gaul was the farthest north?

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20. This group seceded from Rome for the 1st time in 494 B.C.
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21. What Spanish city, an ally of Rome, did Hannibal attack in 219 B.C.?
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22. Whose fleet did the Romans destroy near Cape Ecnomus in 256 B.C.?
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23. When a Roman general sacrificed himself in battle in exchange for a victory, it is called a:
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24. During whose reign did the Roman Empire reach its greatest extent?

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25. Whose troops massacred the Italian residents of Cirta, the center of North African grain trade, in 112 B.C.?
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26. Who was the last member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty?

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27. Who served as Marcus Aurelius’ co-regent?

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28. Which family twice earned the agnomen Africanus?
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29. Whose death at age 19, in 23 B.C., left Agrippa as the most likely heir to Augustus’ throne?
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30. What nation’s conquest is commemorated by the column in the Forum Traiani?

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31. Which two emperors constructed defensive walls in Britain?

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32. Who, having been named dictator in in 458 B.C., left his farm to rescue Minucius and his army under siege by the Aequi on Mt. Algidus?
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33. Which emperor followed Trajan’s example and also constructed a column, this one celebrating his victories over the Marcomanni?

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34. He was consul 7 times.
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35. Which emperor reacted quickly to alleviate the suffering caused by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and a fire and plague in Rome in the following year?
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36. Who was the third of the Good Emperors?

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37. Which rival did Constantine defeat at Saxa Rubra (sometimes called the Battle of the Milvian Bridge) in A.D. 312?
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38. Although primarily known to us as a literary figure, Pliny the Younger also served as the governor of which province?

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39. In order to survive for another generation, the Romans under Romulus at the festival of the Consualia abducted the daughters of the

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40. Which emperor abolished the Olympic Games?

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41. With what mythological hero did Commodus associate himself?

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42. Which Roman king is credited with conducting Rome’s first census?

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43. From which enemy did Augustus secure the return of captured Roman standards in 20 B.C.?
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44. In A.D. 212, which emperor extended Roman citizenship to all communities within the empire?
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45. Which Greek city in southern Italy enlisted King Pyrrhus of Epirus against the Romans?

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46. Many Romans believed that the destruction of Troy was a historical event which occurred in the year:

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47. The three major types of government of the Romans followed which chronological sequence?

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48. Cicero was very proud of the consulship he held in

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49. The Romans believed that they beat the Latins at Lake Regillus in  496 B.C. with the help of
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50. The emperor Claudius was the emperor Caligula’s

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51. Who, after arranging her father’s murder, drove a carriage over his body in a street that thereafter became known as the Via Scelerata?
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52. The first emperor to persecute Christians was:

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53. Though they later became bitter enemies, Marius and Sulla fought on the same side against

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54. In the 3rd century A.D., Zenobia ruled a breakaway portion of the empire with a capital in

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55. The last king of Rome was

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56. At the end of the Republic, how many tribunes of the plebs served at one time?

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57. On which hill did Romulus begin the foundation of Rome?

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58. The Numidian king who aided the Republican cause and committed suicide after Caesar’s victory at Thapsus was:

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59. The emperor of 360-363 A.D. known as “the Apostate,” who renounced Christianity, was    
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60. In the provinces Roman publicani served as

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61. Which temple in Rome was constructed first?

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62. The Roman general who was likened to Alexander the Great in his honorific nickname, hairstyle, and areas of conquest was

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63. The first enemy commander who faced the Romans with elephants in his army was
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64. Which Roman king drained the swampy areas between the hills of Rome with the Cloaca Maxima?

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65. The Roman who ended every speech with the phrase “Carthago delenda est!” was

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66. The famous civil war battle of 31 B.C. was
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67. What Greek inventor’s tomb did Cicero discover under overgrown brush when he was serving as a quaestor in Sicily in

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68. What monument, constructed in the Campus Martius from 13-9 B.C., was commissioned by the Senate to honor the return of Augustus from a tour of Gaul?
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69. What was the name of the mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus who famously referred to her sons as her “jewels”?

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70. The first Roman to lead an army against other Romans was

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71. Who was killed at Carrhae in 53 B.C.?
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72. Rome became a republic in

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73. The general who sacked Corinth in 146 B.C. was
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74. Rome’s first province was

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75. Who, after breaking a treaty with the Romans, was killed by being tied to horses and pulled apart?

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