From Julius Caesar to the fall of Rome — test your knowledge of the empire that shaped the Western world. 20 questions on Roman history, culture, and legendary figures.
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From the banks of the Tiber to the sands of Arabia, Rome grew over a thousand years into the most influential empire the ancient world had ever seen. It began in 509 BC with the founding of a fragile Republic ruled by consuls and the Senate, rose to conquer Carthage, Greece and Gaul, and was reshaped by the ambitions of Julius Caesar and Augustus into an empire that stretched from Britain to the Euphrates.
For centuries, Roman legions marched along stone roads that still cut through the European countryside, while engineers raised aqueducts, amphitheatres and basilicas whose ruins still astonish travellers today. Emperors such as Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius presided over a Pax Romana of markets, baths and temples, while legal scholars drafted the foundations of modern civil law. The Empire shaped languages, religions and institutions — the Latin alphabet we still use, the Julian calendar, the rise of Christianity as a state religion, even the division between East and West that would echo across medieval .
Its long decline is as fascinating as its ascent: civil wars, invasions, plagues, and the slow transformation that ended the Western Empire in 476 AD while Byzantium carried the torch for another thousand years. Whether you are drawn to gladiators and triumphs, to Stoic philosophy or to the politics of the Forum, the story of Rome is one you never stop discovering.