Ancient Rome Study Guide

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Julius Caesar 5x 20.0% stumper $340 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1997 In 48 B.C., while pursuing Pompey into Egypt, this Roman dictator met Cleopatra

J $500 1998 His second wife, Pompeia, was a granddaughter of Sulla who, like him, ruled Rome as a dictator

J $100 1987 He had affairs with Cassius' wife & Brutus' mother, giving the guys good reason to stab him

Augustus 5x $1,080 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 1990 He gave Rome a permanent Praetorian Guard, public fire brigade, police force & its first emperor

DJ $600 1991 He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor

DJ $2,000 DD 1992 In addition to ruling Rome as its first emperor, he ended the reign of the pharaohs

the Tiber 4x $575 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1995 This Roman river is named for a king of Alba Longa who drowned in it

J $800 2014 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) In ancient Rome, triumphant generals paraded into the city through the Campus Martius, which lay between Capitoline Hill &this river

DJ $400 1991 The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river

Spartacus 4x $750 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 This Roman slave is the subject of a Russian ballet & a Kirk Douglas film

DJ $2,000 DD 2019 "The Gladiator" & "Rebellion" are the subtitles of Ben Kane's books about this man who led a slave army against Rome

DJ $400 1990 In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels

the baths 4x $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1995 Romans swam & got steamed at these popular meeting places; the ones of Diocletian were the largest

J $800 2023 The first stop when you went to these was the apodyterium & if you were rich enough, you brought a slave to watch your clothes

DJ $200 1997 These gathering places called thermae contained a laconicum or steam room

Worth Knowing (16)

Hadrian's Wall 3 the Senate 3 the Circus Maximus 3 gladiators 3 Claudius 3 the Appian Way 2 Colosseum 2 Brutus 2 Alexandria 2 a net 2 a battering ram 2 the plebeians 2 the Patricians 2 the Pantheon 2 the kitchen 2 Augustus Romulus 2

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