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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 ___?
Remus
Crassus
Romulus
Caesar
The legendary founding of Rome is in what year?
555 B.C.
753 BC
1500 BC
Year 1
The period of monarchy in Rome ends with the fall of the Etruscan royalty.
This is the beginning of the Republic. In what year?
215 BC
10 A.D.
509 BC
444 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?
150 B.C.
120 Apr. J.-C.
395 Apr. J.-C.
27 B.C.
Who was appointed by the Senate as dictator for life in 44 BC at the end of the Roman Republic.
Julius Caesar
Crassus
Pompey
Octave-Auguste
Who was defeated by Caesar in the famous battle of Alesia in 52 BC.
Vercingétorix
Asterix
Odoman
Arminius
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?
52 BC
395
7
177
ⓘ
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 ___.
117
395
150 B.C.
520
To better defend themselves, the Romans split their empire into two: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. In what year?
55
800
510
395
Constantine I, with the Edict of Milan of 313, stopped the persecutions ___ ?
of the Jews
des Germains
of Christians
of the Gauls
ⓘ
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
53
406
255
In ___, the Herulian leader Odoacre dethroned Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor in the West.
This is the end of the Western Roman Empire.
60
800
355
476
the Eastern Roman Empire continued until ___ (capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire).
732
800
1270
1453
