Ancient Geography

Question 1

Give the ancient name for Greece

Answer 1

Achaea

Question 2

Give the ancient name for York

Answer 2

Eboracum

Question 3

Give the ancient name for Izmit

Answer 3

Nicomedia

Question 4

Give the ancient name for Marseille

Answer 4

Massilia

Question 5

Give the ancient name for the North Sea

Answer 5

Oceanus Germanicus

Question 6

Give the ancient name for the Black Sea

Answer 6

Pontus Euxinus

Question 7

Give the ancient name for Belgrade

Answer 7

Singidunum

Question 8

Give the ancient name for Thames

Answer 8

Tamesis

Question 9

Give the ancient name for Homs

Answer 9

Emesa

Question 10

Give the ancient name for Padua

Answer 10

Patavium

Question 11

The towns of Placentia, Bononia, and Ariminum were located on what road?

Answer 11

Via Aemilia

Question 12

On what road was Tarentum located?

Answer 12

Via Appia

Question 13

On what road was Capua located?

Answer 13

Via Appia

Question 14

On what road was Beneventum located?

Answer 14

Via Appia

Question 15

Why was it important that the Via Appia eventually extend to Brundisium?

Answer 15

it was the embarkation port to Greece

Question 16

The road connecting London and York was:

Answer 16

Ermine Street

Question 17

When did concrete piers faced with masonry replace large masonry blocks in the construction of Roman
bridges?

Answer 17

First Century B. C

Question 18

The city of Rome ultimately had how many bridges crossing its river?

Answer 18

12

Question 19

In Italy, milestones gave the distance:

Answer 19

to Rome

Question 20

Who erected in Rome the column in the Forum giving the distance to major towns of the empire?

Answer 20

Augustus

Question 21

The warehouse district in Rome was located just to the southwest of which hill?

Answer 21

Aventine

Question 22

Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior were later reorganized into Lusitania, Baetica and:

Answer 22

Tarraconensis

Question 23

At which gate of Rome would you have seen the convergence of half a dozen aqueducts entering the city?

Answer 23

Praenestina

Question 24

Name three major thermae in Rome

Answer 24

Diocletian’s, Trajan’s, Nero’s

Question 25

Name three minor bath complexes in Rome

Answer 25

Titus', Agrippa's, Nero's

Question 26

Name three theaters or odeums in Rome

Answer 26

Marcellus, Balbus, Pompey

Question 27

What gate had the Via Appia running through it?

Answer 27

Porta Capena

Question 28

What gate had the Via Nomentana running through it?

Answer 28

Porta Collina

Question 29

What gate had the Via Metrovia running through it?

Answer 29

Porta Caelimontana

Question 30

There was a large oval bulge in the Aurelian Wall between the Porta Asinaria and the Porta Labicana. What caused this?

Answer 30

the Amphitheatrum Flavium

Question 31

Which bridge connected the Campus Martius with the Vatican Fields?

Answer 31

Pons Neronianus

Question 32

Leaving the Forum Romanum by the Forum of Augustus, one entered what neighborhood?

Answer 32

Subura

Question 33

A small stretch of the Argiletum was turned into what?

Answer 33

Forum Transitorium

Question 34

What bridge would you have crossed to visit the Temple of Aesculapius?

Answer 34

Fabricius

Question 35

The Clivus Argentarius connected the Forum with:

Answer 35

the Campus Martius

Question 36

Most of Rome’s bridges connected it with

Answer 36

Transtiberim

Question 37

To visit the Lacus Curtius, one went to:

Answer 37

the Forum Romanum

Question 38

Located at the top of the Viminal Hill was:

Answer 38

Baths of Diocletian

Question 39

clivus

Answer 39

street on a slope

Question 40

crepido

Answer 40

pavement

Question 41

umbo

Answer 41

stone curb

Question 42

agger

Answer 42

causeway forming a road

Question 43

angiportus

Answer 43

alley

Question 44

pervium

Answer 44

. passage

Question 45

limes

Answer 45

path, boundary

Question 46

milliarum

Answer 46

milestone

Question 47

Northern Italy

Answer 47

Gallia Cisalpina

Question 48

Mediterranean Gaul

Answer 48

Gallia Narbonensis

Question 49

Libya

Answer 49

Africa

Question 50

Northeastern France

Answer 50

Gallia Comata

Question 51

On what road was the Ustrinum of Augustus located?

Answer 51

Via Lata

Question 52

On what road was the Ara Pacis located?

Answer 52

Via Lata

Question 53

On what road was the Column of Marcus Aurelius located?

Answer 53

Via Lata

Question 54

Which of these provinces was added during the life of Julius Caesar (100 B. C. to 44 B. C.) ?

Answer 54

Bithynia

Question 55

Which of these was located within the Servian Wall?

Answer 55

Baths of Diocletian

Question 56

Occupied by Rome in 102 B.C. in an effort to deal with pirates, formally became a province in 72 B. C. Included Phrygia and Pisidia until these were returned to Asia

Answer 56

Cilicia

Question 57

Originally reduced by Crassus in 29 B. C. , separated from Macedonia or Illyricum. Divided in two by Domitian, and further by Diocletian. Important river border.

Answer 57

Moesia

Question 58

Located in modern Italy, this region had been settled by Gauls before the Romans arrived. Bordered by the Po and the Alps.

Answer 58

Gallia Transpadana

Question 59

One of Trajan’s provincial additions, one of the few on the far side of the Danube, abandoned by Aurelian.

Answer 59

Dacia

Question 60

Bordered by Pontus, Pamphylia, Asia, etc. but by no coast.

Answer 60

Galatia

Question 61

Rome to Capua

Answer 61

south

Question 62

Numidia to Africa

Answer 62

east

Question 63

Crete to Cyrenaica

Answer 63

south

Question 64

Achaea to Sicilia

Answer 64

west

Question 65

Misenum to Cannae

Answer 65

east

Question 66

Saguntum to Carthago Nova

Answer 66

south

Question 67

Paestum to Brundisium

Answer 67

east

Question 68

Athens to Ephesus

Answer 68

east

Question 69

Corinth to Delphi

Answer 69

north

Question 70

Halicarnassus to Rhodes

Answer 70

south

Question 71

Which of these is not on a border of the Empire after the age of Trajan?

Answer 71

Asia