Scipio Africanus

Augustus

Sila

Aecio

2) Who was the roman god of war ?

Jupiter

Mars

Gordent

Thor

3) Which city fougth the Romans in the Punic Wars ?

Athens

Sparta

Milan

Carthage

4) Who led the Roman armies that defeated Atila ?

Cesar

Aecio

Scipio Africanus

Caracalla

5) Which general led the Roman forces that quelled the jewish uprising of the year 66 ?

Peron

Cestio Galo

Titus

Aecio

6) Who was the king of Epirus that defeated the Romans in southern Italy ?

Pyrrhus

Ptolemy

Tigranes

7) Who conquered Rome in the year 390 BC?

The Persians

The Gauls

Alexander the Great

8) Who defeated the Romans in the battle of Lake Trasimene ?

Atila

Hannibal

Pyrrhus

9) After the Romans destroyed and refounded Jerusalem how did they called the new city ?

Ratea Colitanorum

Caesarea Maritima

Aelia Capitolina

Budalia

10) Who was the first emperor to embrace christianity ?

Constantine

Trajan

Titus

Pertinax

11) Which emperor ordered to build a wall in northern England ?

Hadrian

Nerva

Domitian

Caligula

12) Where did the Romans gathered to meet people and discuss political issues ?

The market

The arena

The temples

The forum

13) How many hills was Rome built on ?

Nine

Seven

Ten

14) How many consuls shared power during the republican times ?

Two

Three

None

15) What was a Centurion?

The commander of 100 men in the army

A general in charge of a Legion

A famous gladiator

16) How many men formed a Cohort in the Roman army ?

600

1000

350

4800

17) Which fortress was sieged by the Roman army, finding almost all its defensors dead by suicide when it fell  ?

Sparta

Massada

Alessia

18) Who was the leader of the Gauls resistance against the Caesars army ?

Astraborte

Vercigetorix

Mandubracii

19) In which battle the goths defeated the Eastern Roman Emperor?

Ravenna

Adrianople

Cannae

20) Who was Spartacus ?

The leader of a slaves uprising against their Roman masters 

The Consul that built the first Roman aqueduct

A Roman general that conquered Illiria after defeating the barbarians against all odds

21) How did Julius Caesar died ?

He had an accident while riding his chariot

Killed in the senate by his political enemies

Battling against the barbarians in the province of Rhetia

22) What was the Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea?

Mare Nostrum

Mediterraneum

Mare Romanum

23) Which was the Roman province that comprised the actual Romanian territory ?

Thracia

Illiricum

Dacia

24) What was an Insulae ?

An island where political prioners lived

A palace where the senators lived

Apartments rented by poor people to live

Caves where fugitive slaves lived in freedom

25) What was a "Via" ?

The Roman roads that connected the empire

The pipes that carried water to the city of Rome

A kind of Shield used by the Roman Cavalry

26 ) Why the Roman conquests ruined the small Roman farmers ?

Because the taxes collected to finance the campaigns imposed a heavy burden on the farmers budget

Because the farmers were forced to join the army leaving their farms

Because the cheap slave labor from the conquered areas depressed the agricultural prices.

27) Which river washed the shores of the city of Rome ?

Volturno

Arno

Tiber

Sangro

Nile