Roman History - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Legendary founder of Rome	Romulus	93%
First Roman Emperor	Augustus	85%
Proclaimed dictator-for-life in 44 BC, assassinated	Julius Caesar	82%
Issued above decree, stabilized Empire, moved to capital of Eastern Roman Empire	Constantine	72%
Leader of slave uprising in southern Italy, killed by Crassus	Spartacus	69%
Executive power in the Republic, two men held one year terms	Consul	64%
Name by which the Eastern Roman Empire became known	Byzantine Empire	61%
Roman orator who derided the above, was assassinated by Antony after above's death	Cicero	57%
The Roman Empire reached its territorial height under his reign	Trajan	52%
Roman general who ultimately triumphed in the Second Punic War	Scipio	50%
Last of the "Five Good Emperors", wrote "Meditations"	Marcus Aurelius	49%
Trojan ancestor of Romans	Aeneas	46%
Emperor who conquered Britain	Claudius	41%
Brothers who were assassinated due to calls for land reform	Gracchi	34%
Naval battle at which Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated	Actium	33%
Priestesses in whose temple the treasury was kept	Vestal Virgins	33%
Year of the Western Roman Empire's collapse	476 AD	31%
Poet exiled by above for salacious work on seduction	Ovid	31%
Roman orator who derided both Carthage and Greek customs	Cato	30%
Major Roman port at the mouth of the Tiber	Ostia	29%
Emperor who divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves	Diocletian	28%
Ill-fated general who lost 3 legions in Germany in 9 AD	Varus	24%
Held the position of dictator long enough to defeat the enemy, then return to his fields	Cincinnatus	23%
Stoic philosopher and tutor to Nero	Seneca	23%
Woman whose rape sealed the fate of the old Roman monarchy	Lucretia	22%
Last emperor of the Western Roman Empire	Romulus Augustulus	18%
Made Christianity the official faith of the Roman Empire	Theodosius	17%
Decree that legalized Christianity	Edict of Milan	13%
378 AD battle in which the Visigoths killed the emperor and a third of his army	Adrianople	12%
Emperor who extended citizenship to all free men in Roman Empire	Caracalla	12%