Do you know Greek/Roman history? (short answers)?

Question

Here are some questions, see which ones you can answer:
This is about Ancient Italy and the Romans:
1) What did the word "Napoles" (Naples) mean in latin?
2) How were the battles between Rome and Carthage called?
3) How many centuries, in total, did Rome and it's empire exist?
4) Mention 3 roman provinces.
5) What did the acrostic (composition in which the initial or ending letters form a word or phrase ) S.P.Q.R. mean?
6) Roman general conquistator of the Gauls? (ancient region that included France and Belgium and other European countries)?
7) Mention some importand monuments of Rome in the imperial era.

Please if you could answer some of them?

Answer 1

1. From Greek Neapolis , "new city."
2. The Punic Wars.
3. Depends on your interpretation. The "empire" lasted from c. 27 BC to AD 476 in the west, teh Byzantine, until AD 1453, the "Holy Roman Empire" until around 1813. Prior to the Empire, Rome had been a kingdom and republic for several centuries.
4. Gallia (Gaul, modern France), Hispania (Spain, Portugal), Brittania (England).
5. Senatus Populusque Romanus, "The Senate and the Roman People."
6. Julius Caesar.
7. Pantheon, triumphal arches (multiple) the Forum (temples to Jupiter and other gods, the Capitol), Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum), Circus Maximus,

Answer 2

1. [I'll have to look up}
2. The Punic Wars - There were three
Cannae was the greatest battle - 2nd Punic War Hannibal 216 BC
3. They had kings until ~500 BC. Tarquin was the last.
Then Republic for ~500 years until Caesar Augustus 27BC to 14AD. Then Empire until ~476 AD = another 500 years.
So I'd call it about 10 centuries for a nice round easy to remember figure. It gets tricky because the Byzantine empire to 1453 was really the eastern part of the Roman empire.
4. Dalmatia - Essentially the old Yugoslavia
Transalpine Gaul - Across the Alps into present France
Cisalpine Gaul - Northern Italy on the same side of the Alps as Rome
5. Senate and the People of Rome
6. Julius Caesar conquered Gaul circa 50 BC
7. Trajan's column is the first that comes to mind.
Perhaps Hadrian's wall in Britain early second century AD

Answer 3

2-Punic Wars
3-Complicated answer. Eastern or Western Roman Empire? Do you mean strictly as an Empire or do you want to include the Republic as well. That answer would then be, anywhere from 500 - 2000 years.
4-Gaul, Britannia, Pannonia
5-Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and the Roman People). Official signature of the government.
6-Julius Caesar ultimately conquered the Gauls
7-Flavian Ampitheater (The Colosseum), The Pantheon, The Forum, Circus Maximus

Answer 4

1) Neapolis means New City in ANCIENT GREEK (not Latin), from nea=new (female gender) + polis = city/town

2) the WARS Rome-Carthage were called Punic wars: among most famous battles, Egadians Islands (1° p.w.)Lake Trasimenus, Cannae and Zama (2° p.w.)

3) 779 BC is the alleged (actually legendary) date of founding
Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. So the answer is 11 centuries

4) Acaia, Reticum, Pannonia

5) Senatus PopolusQue Romanus (=Roman Senate and Nation), according the most known version

6) Iulius Caesar

7) Colosseum, Baths of Caracalla, Arc of Titus among many others

Answer 5

Everyone above is right - BUT I believe that SPQR is really Senatus Popolusque Romanorum ( I think you need the genitive on the last "of Rome")

Answer 6

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