Ancient Roman Quiz

[allhailIndia]

THis is my third Quiz and it is about the Romans.

1.Give the modern Names of the following Roman Cities>
a.Massilia
b.Lugdunum
c.Lindum
d.Tarraco
e.Tarentum

2.Which country was called Caledonia by the Romans?

3.How did the Romans gain the knowledge of building seaworhty batleships or Triremes?

4.From which people did the Romans copy the Gladius or the Short Sword?

5.Name the other cospirators in the murder of Caesar apart from Brutus.

6.What was the original name of the Colosseum?

7.IN Roman times the direction to a brothel was indicated at a street by a left or right footprint. What other purpose did this footprint serve?

8.What was different about the paintings of Jesus by Romans and why?

9.Easy one. Which Roman empeor's name meant "little boot"?

10. In Roman times, who or what was an Archon?(Note to Starcraft players: Yes there are "real" Archons.)

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by allhailIndia
THis is my third Quiz and it is about the Romans.

1.Give the modern Names of the following Roman Cities>
a.Massilia
b.Lugdunum
c.Lindum
d.Tarraco
e.Tarentum

2.Which country was called Caledonia by the Romans?

3.How did the Romans gain the knowledge of building seaworhty batleships or Triremes?

4.From which people did the Romans copy the Gladius or the Short Sword?

5.Name the other cospirators in the murder of Caesar apart from Brutus.

6.What was the original name of the Colosseum?

7.IN Roman times the direction to a brothel was indicated at a street by a left or right footprint. What other purpose did this footprint serve?

8.What was different about the paintings of Jesus by Romans and why?

9.Easy one. Which Roman empeor's name meant "little boot"?

10. In Roman times, who or what was an Archon?(Note to Starcraft players: Yes there are "real" Archons.)

1)
Marsella
London?
----------
Tarragona?
Tarento

3) From the greeks in southern italy, magna grecia.

8) Jesus has no beard, and look like a normal roman-greek guy.
Why? No idea.

9)Caligula

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

1.
Marseille
Lyons
?
Tarragona
Taranto

2. Scocia

3. From greek cities in southern Italy

4. Iberians

5.Cassius

6. Flavian Amphitheatre

9. Caligula

10. In roman times? In ancient Athens they were the highest officials after they got rid of the kings. Solon was archon e.g.
They lost most of their influence during the democratic reforms though.

 

[allhailIndia]

OOPs I think I made afew blunders in framing the questions.
Here are the correct questions:
3.The Romans were losing quite frequently to the Carthaginians at sea in the Punic Wars until a stroke of good fortune leveled the playing field. What was this stroke of good luck?

4.In Roman times, who or what was a Praetor?(not Archons, but these are also present in Starcraft)

Sorry for the blunders, I will post the answers in a couple of days

It seems as though Nahuixtelotzin has got most of the answers right except for 2 cities in Q1 and questions 2,7 and 8

Kublai has got the 8th Q right, good one. THe reason was that a beard was associated with barbarians( think about wild Germanic and Gaul tribes if it helps)

 

[S.P.Q.R.]

[4.In Roman times, who or what was a Praetor?(not Archons, but these are also present in Starcraft)


The preators were high officials of the Roman Republic. I think they were the highest judges.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

3)
What allowed the romans to win in the sea against the cartaginians till they created a platform that they could throw to the punic ship.
Because od the platform they were able to fight against the cartaginians just like in the ground.

I hope you could understand my explanation, my english sucks specially when i define something.

 

[Hamlet]

Originally posted by allhailIndia
2.Which country was called Caledonia by the Romans?

Scotland.

 

[allhailIndia]

YOu do not need to worry about English. I come from a country where each region has a unique way of mutilating the language.

Unfortunately, your answer is not correct.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

I thought that you were talking about this.
At least this is what i tried to explain when i said that they developed a platform that could be throw to the rival ship in order to transform the naval fight into a ground fight.



Rather unexpected success in battle was obtained by a logical Roman idea that a warship was little more than a floating platform on which the soldiers could be brought into close contact with the enemy. For this purpose they invented a huge boarding plank with a large spike on the end, which could be raised and lowerd like a drawbridge. Before battle it would be raised and then dropped onto an enemy's deck. The spike would embed itself into the opponent's deck planking and the legionaries could board the enemy vessel across it. This elaborate contraption was called the raven or - corvus

This invention gave Rome five victories at sea. However, it is believed that it's weight, carried above the water line, also made the ships unstable, and could in rough seas cause them to capsize. In effect, much of this achievement of their sea victories was minimized by the losses the Romans hence suffered at sea. Partially the corvus might well be responsible for some of these losses. But generally it was the inept way the Romans handled their vessels as well as their ill fortune in running into several tempests.

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

1. I got one wrong? Must be Lugdunum then, there were several AFAIK, but the most important was Lyons. Other than that, I got no idea.

2. Answer MUST be Scotland unless I've turned completely nuts.

3. They seized some carthaginian ships, but I can't remember how and where.

4. Praetors were high officials, in the cursus honorum they ranked only below the consuls, in earlier times they were probably the highest officials. They had duties of judges (praetor urbanus for romans and praetor peregrinus for strangers) and held the "small imperium" which made them allowed to command 1 legion (consuls could lead 2)

 

[Michiel de Ruyter]

They stumbled upon a Chartagian ship that was shipwrecked and so found out how to build seaworthy galleys.

 

[Sodak]

1) Marseilles, Lyon, ... , Tarragona, Turin. If the third is intended to be London, that was called Londinium. Otherwise, I dunno...

3) I think MdeR is right on this, the Carthaginian fleet suffered because storms sank half their fleet. (This happened to the Romans, too, but during one of the other Punic Wars, iirc.)

 

[macaskil]

1c - Lindum is Lincoln (England)

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

The romans already had triremes, influence by both Etruscan and Magnea Grecia sources, the shipwreck cartagina ship alowed them to disect quinquereme desgin, and build the larger fighting ships, which they improve by their invention the "corvus" boarding bridge.

 

[allhailIndia]

Well it seems that at least half of you have got the answer to that one. Though Kublai dod make a valiant attempt, it was unfortunately in vain.

These are the actual city names
Marseilles
Lyons
York
Tarracina
Taranto

keep trying for the others

 

[Sodak]

Wasn't the roman name of York "Eburicum"?

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Yep. York=Eburacum, and Tarraco is still Taragona

 

[allhailIndia]

Hmm! I am sure about Tarracina and Tarraco. However, I think my reference book was a bit misleading about York. I think it suggested that Lindum was "near" York. I am sorry for the mistake.