Across
- 2. Roman family were led by the father
- 5. killed his brother to rule the new city of Rome
- 9. war war between two groups of countrymen
- 14. Roman short sword
- 16. the first Roman emperor
- 17. were elected by the plebeians to represent their needs
- 19. open air area in Rome where business was conducted
- 20. Roman demonstrations of entertainment
- 22. 200 years of relative peace in the Roman Empire
- 23. Maximus race track for chariots
- 27. the buildings, roads and things needed for daily life
- 28. emperor at the time the city of Pompeii was destroyed
- 30. the first Christian emperor
- 32. Tiberius' successor and one of Rome's craziest emperors
- 34. Roman lower classes
- 35. escaped from the Trojan War, made his way to the Italian peninsula and founded the city of Rome
- 36. Byzantine emperor who wanted to restore Europe and the Roman Empire to it's former glory
- 38. battle flag
- 39. Christian church built by Constantine in Constantinople
- 42. Augustus' successor who did not like being emperor
- 44. Roman uppper classes
- 45. representative democracy of early Rome
- 46. the eastern part of the empire that flourished after the collapse
- 47. Roman military units of about 6,000 men
Down
- 1. emperor who restored order after Nero and began construction of the Colosseum
- 3. the last Roman emperor
- 4. the two rulers of Rome during the Republic
- 6. the European part of the empire that fell
- 7. Roman country homes
- 8. Roman homes in the city
- 10. the day Julius Caesar was assassinated
- 11. Roman spear
- 12. the male leader of Roman families
- 13. the calendar created by Julius Caesar as one of his reforms
- 15. were appointed by the patrician class
- 18. Julius Caesar's adopted son
- 21. your last name, family name
- 24. taught the early Romans many engineering skills
- 25. when a political leader is murdered
- 26. slaves that fought for entertainment
- 29. emperor who faked a limp to avoid being murdered by Tiberius
- 31. the three man power structure in which Julius Caesar shared power with Pompey and Crassus
- 33. emperor who was accused of burned down the city of Rome
- 37. open air courtyard in Roman homes
- 40. Roman apartment building
- 41. the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, renamed Constantinople
- 43. Roman emperor who built the larges defensive structure in the Western Hemisphere