Super Quiz: The Roman Empire

Super Quiz: The Roman Empire

1. The transition to "empire" was marked by this man's appointment to dictator.

2. Another marker was Octavian's defeat of Antony and Cleopatra in this battle.

3. A third marker was the senate's granting of this honorific to Octavian.

4. The first two centuries are known as the Pax Romana, meaning ----------.

5. Under Theodosius I (379-395), this became the empire's official state religion.

6. Name either of the two chief Roman contributions to architecture.

7. When the West collapsed, the eastern half was known as the -------- Empire.

8. What city served as the capital of the eastern empire?

9. Who authored The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

ANSWERS:

1. Julius Caesar

2. Battle of Actium

3. Augustus

4. Roman Peace

5. Christianity

6. The arch and the dome

7. Byzantine

8. Constantinople

9. Edward Gibbon

Style on 05/20/2014