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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
Romulus
Remus
Crassus
The legendary founding of Rome is in what year?
Year 1
753 BC
1500 BC
555 B.C.
The period of monarchy in Rome ends with the fall of the Etruscan royalty.
This is the beginning of the Republic. In what year?
444 BC
215 BC
509 BC
10 A.D.
The Roman Republic lasted from 509 BC (the fall of the Etruscan kingship) until Octavian Augustus, the first emperor, took power.
In what year?
150 B.C.
27 B.C.
120 Apr. J.-C.
395 Apr. J.-C.
Who was appointed by the Senate as dictator for life in 44 BC at the end of the Roman Republic.
Octave-Auguste
Pompey
Crassus
Julius Caesar
Who was defeated by Caesar in the famous battle of Alesia in 52 BC.
Vercingétorix
Arminius
Odoman
Asterix
Who became the first emperor of Rome?
Julius Caesar
Nero
Octavian Augustus
Mark Antony
ⓘ
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?
52 BC
7
177
395
ⓘ
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 ___.
150 B.C.
395
520
117
To better defend themselves, the Romans split their empire into two: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. In what year?
55
510
395
800
Constantine I, with the Edict of Milan of 313, stopped the persecutions ___ ?
des Germains
of the Jews
of the Gauls
of Christians
ⓘ
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?
750
406
255
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
800
355
60
the Eastern Roman Empire continued until ___ (capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire).
1270
732
800
1453
