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1. What does the name "Monumentum Ancyranum" refer to?
2. On which continent would we find the Roman Province of Gaul?
3. Roman infantry from the common classes marched long distances carrying heavy packs and thus acquired a nickname connected with the general who organized the professional Roman army in 107 B.C. What were these soldiers called?
4. Which Roman leader was NOT one of the first four Julio-Claudian emperors?
5. What now famous city was buried by the volcano Mt.Vesuvius in 79 A.D.?
6. What emperor, who fancied himself a musician, spoke the final words, "Qualis artifex pereo" ("What an artist I die")?
7. What Roman author wrote an epic poem glorifying the origins and identity of the Roman people?
8. While it may be a myth that in 146 BC the Romans sprinkled the razed city of Carthage with this compound, the word "salary" derives from the Latin word for it, and good soldiers were said to be "worth their_____." What is it?
9. When Marc Antony began his relationship with Cleopatra, he fancied himself a god. Which god was it?
10. In the Bible in the book of Acts, who was the kind centurion who accompanied Paul to Rome?
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