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Ancient Rome: Overview
Do you know the important dates and names of ancient Rome?
Ancient Rome: Overview
Do you know the important dates and names of ancient Rome?
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According to legend, Rome was founded by ___?
Caesar
Crassus
Remus
Romulus
The legendary founding of Rome is in what year?
Year 1
1500 BC
555 B.C.
753 BC
The period of monarchy in Rome ends with the fall of the Etruscan royalty.
This is the beginning of the Republic. In what year?
10 A.D.
444 BC
509 BC
215 BC
The Roman Republic lasted from 509 BC (the fall of the Etruscan kingship) until Octavian Augustus, the first emperor, took power.
In what year?
120 Apr. J.-C.
395 Apr. J.-C.
27 B.C.
150 B.C.
Who was appointed by the Senate as dictator for life in 44 BC at the end of the Roman Republic.
Pompey
Octave-Auguste
Crassus
Julius Caesar
Who was defeated by Caesar in the famous battle of Alesia in 52 BC.
Arminius
Asterix
Vercingétorix
Odoman
Who became the first emperor of Rome?
Octavian Augustus
Mark Antony
Julius Caesar
Nero
ⓘ
Octavian was the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar. The Senate confers on Octavian the title of Augustus.
In the battle of the Teutoburg Forest an alliance of Germanic tribes, led by Arminius (Hermann) destroys the Roman legions led by Varus.In what year?
395
7
177
52 BC
ⓘ
It is considered Rome's greatest defeat.
The Romans never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine.
The Roman Empire was at its territorial peak under Trajan in the year ___.
520
395
150 B.C.
117
To better defend themselves, the Romans split their empire into two: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. In what year?
800
510
395
55
Constantine I, with the Edict of Milan of 313, stopped the persecutions ___ ?
of the Gauls
des Germains
of Christians
of the Jews
ⓘ
He was baptized in 337 on his deathbed.
The Western Roman Empire was overwhelmed by a major invasion of German tribes (Suebi, Visigoths, Vandals, Burgundians).
From what year?
255
406
750
53
In ___, the Herulian leader Odoacre dethroned Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor in the West.
This is the end of the Western Roman Empire.
476
355
60
800
the Eastern Roman Empire continued until ___ (capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire).
1270
800
732
1453
