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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 ___?
Romulus
Caesar
Remus
Crassus
The legendary founding of Rome is in what year?
753 BC
555 B.C.
Year 1
1500 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?
509 BC
215 BC
10 A.D.
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?
395 Apr. J.-C.
120 Apr. J.-C.
150 B.C.
27 B.C.
Who was appointed by the Senate as dictator for life in 44 BC at the end of the Roman Republic.
Crassus
Julius Caesar
Pompey
Octave-Auguste
Who was defeated by Caesar in the famous battle of Alesia in 52 BC.
Odoman
Arminius
Vercingétorix
Asterix
Who became the first emperor of Rome?
Octavian Augustus
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
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
52 BC
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 ___.
150 B.C.
520
395
117
To better defend themselves, the Romans split their empire into two: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. In what year?
395
510
800
55
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
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.
800
476
355
60
the Eastern Roman Empire continued until ___ (capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire).
800
1270
1453
732
