Romulus & Remus what is the legend? 1. What is an indirect democracy?
2 How did Rome expand its borders? Who was the most famous Roman of all? What region did he conquer?
3. Who became the first sole ruler of Rome?
4. Who were the Gauls and Druids? Why were they weird to the Romans?
5. Describe a "Roman City"
6. What happened in a Roman Forum?
7. Which Emperor persecuted Christians, clamped down on inflation, and divided the empire? |
(Clue: He was the only Emperor to retire)
8. Who reunited the Empire but moved the capital to the east? (Clue: He legalized Christianity in the 300's
AD)
9. What was the Edict of Milan?
10. Who were the Huns? Why did they scare the other Germanic tribes?
11. What did Alaric want? Who was he? What did he do?
in what year?
12. The new Germanic kingdoms that settled into the former Roman Empire didn't maintain Rome's marvels of
engineering? Why?
13. What new unifying force vied for power with the new Germanic kings?
14. Why was Christianity so attractive?
15. Who was Justinian? What did he attempt in 535 AD?