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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?
1500 BC
555 B.C.
753 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?
10 A.D.
215 BC
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.
Octave-Auguste
Crassus
Julius Caesar
Pompey
Who was defeated by Caesar in the famous battle of Alesia in 52 BC.
Arminius
Vercingétorix
Odoman
Asterix
Who became the first emperor of Rome?
Julius Caesar
Octavian Augustus
Nero
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?
395
177
7
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
117
150 B.C.
395
To better defend themselves, the Romans split their empire into two: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. In what year?
510
800
55
395
Constantine I, with the Edict of Milan of 313, stopped the persecutions ___ ?
of Christians
des Germains
of the Gauls
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?
406
255
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.
355
800
60
476
the Eastern Roman Empire continued until ___ (capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire).
800
1453
1270
732
