Transcript How well do you know ROME?

We only have a little over 7 weeks left
together, so you know what that means…
we need to hurry on to ROME!
Test your knowledge with this game of
True or False?
TRUE
or
FALSE
 TRUE!
 The Punic Wars are a series of
three different wars between
Rome and Carthage which lasted
23 years.
TRUE
or
FALSE
 FALSE!
 Hannibal led his
troops through
the Alps on
Elephant backs.
http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/hannibal-barca.jpg
TRUE
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FALSE
 FALSE!
 Hannibal and his troops roamed
for 15 years
TRUE
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FALSE
 TRUE!
 Rome was often times brutal in
battle and they would do
whatever it took to conquer their
enemies, even if it meant
attacking the citizens.
TRUE
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FALSE
 FALSE!
 The Romans either killed the
Carthaginians or forced them to
be slaves.
TRUE
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FALSE
 TRUE!
 Again, Rome was very strict about
people obeying their rules and
they would destroy anything that
stood in their path.
TRUE
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FALSE
 TRUE!
 Caesar’s first name is
Julius and he decided
to adopt an Egyptian
calendar and called it
the Julian calendar.
In honor of him
changing and
adopting the
calendar they named
the month of July
after him.
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/Julius-Caesar-bust.jpg
TRUE
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FALSE
 FALSE!
 Caesar died on the Ides of March
when 60 men stabbed him to
death for the fear that he wanted
to make himself king.
TRUE
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FALSE
TRUE!
The Ides means the middle,
and March 15th is the middle of
March.
TRUE
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FALSE
TRUE!
Romans conquered a lot of
land and therefore had a lot of
land to cover.
TRUE
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FALSE
FALSE!
Roman soldiers were
required to stay in the army
for 25 years!
TRUE
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FALSE
 FALSE!
 Roman citizens wore
togas. Senators
wore togas edged in
purple and only
emperors could be
dressed entirely in
purple.
http://www.hadrians.com/images/graphics/rome/emperors/roman_man_in_toga_illustration.jpg
True
or
False
 Obviously TRUE!