Classics/History//Humanities 122:
The Roman World

Beth Severy-Hoven, Macalester College
Spring 2006

Quiz on Places, People and Events in Roman History

Tuesday, February 7

You should be able to locate the following on a map of Italy or the Mediterranean Basin:

Italy

Cities:

Rome
Pompeii
Brundisium
Puteoli
Lavinium
Veii
Ostia

 Regions:

Etruria
Umbria
Campania
Latium
Gallia Cispadana
Calabria
Sicily

 

Water: Tiber River
Po (Padus) River
Adriatic Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Terrain: Appenine Mountains
Alps
Mount Vesuvius

Mediterranean Basin

Regions:

Gaul
Germania
Hispania
Britannia
Mauritania
Africa
Egypt
Greece
Macedonia

Asia Minor
Levant
Persia
Cyprus
Crete
Sicily
Aetolia
Thrace

 Cities: Rome
Carthage
Troy
Tyre
Jerusalem
Alexandria
Cyrene
Athens
Corinth
Miletus
Byzantium
Pergamum
Water: Aegean Sea
Black Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Adriatic Sea		 Rhone River
Danube River
Euphrates River
Nile River		 Terrain: Alps
Appenine Mountains

You should know some basic information about each of the following people (emperor, playwright, revolutionary, etc.), as well as when they lived:

Plautus
Catullus
Aeneas
Cicero
Plutarch
Antony
Romulus
Livy
Vergil
Ovid
Lucretia
Julius Caesar
Petronius
Cleopatra
Paul
Tacitus
Josephus
Augustus
Apuleius
Nero
Vespasian


You should know the time when each of these occurred:

foundation of city of Rome
end of monarchy
destruction of Carthage
conquest of eastern Mediterranean
end of Republic
First Jewish Revolt
foundation of Flavian dynasty

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