Ancient Rome Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A Roman traveler sailing to Jerusalem would head for which part of the Mediterranean world?
The Atlantic coast of Hispania
The eastern Mediterranean, in Judaea
The western coast of Italy
The northern coast of Gaul
2. Where would Hadrian's Wall appear on a map of the Roman Empire?
Across northern Britain, near Rome's frontier in Britannia
Across central Italy, between Rome and the Po Valley
Along the North African coast, west of Egypt
Across Anatolia, south of the Black Sea
3. Most of the Roman region called Gaul lay within which present-day country?
Greece
Egypt
Portugal
France
4. Constantinople occupied a strategic position beside which narrow waterway?
The Strait of Gibraltar
The Bosporus
The English Channel
The Strait of Messina
5. A ship crossing the Adriatic Sea directly eastward from southern Italy would approach which part of the Roman world?
The western Balkans and Greece
Egypt and the Nile Valley
Hispania and the Atlantic coast
Britain and northern Gaul
6. Which description correctly locates Alexandria, one of the Roman world's leading cities?
On the Rhine frontier in Germania
On the Atlantic coast of northern Gaul
On the Tiber River in central Italy
On Egypt's Mediterranean coast near the Nile Delta
7. On a Roman map, which river broadly marked part of the boundary between Gaul to the west and Germania to the east?
The Euphrates
The Rhine
The Po
The Thames
8. Roman Dacia lay mainly north of which river frontier?
The Nile
The Tiber
The Danube
The Ebro
9. Starting in Rome, which route best describes a journey to Pompeii?
Travel north across the Alps into Gaul
Sail west to the coast of Hispania
Travel south toward the Bay of Naples
Cross the Adriatic toward Greece
10. Which large island lies just off the toe of the Italian Peninsula?
Crete
Cyprus
Corsica
Sicily
11. From northern Gaul, a Roman army crossing the English Channel would enter which province?
Aegyptus
Britannia
Sicilia
Dacia
12. Which peninsula formed the central homeland of ancient Rome?
The Balkan Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula
The Anatolian Peninsula
13. The Roman region called Asia Minor corresponds mainly to what present-day area?
Anatolia in modern Turkey
Northern France
Southern Spain
The Nile Valley in Egypt
14. A merchant sails from Rome toward Carthage. In which general direction and region is the destination?
Southwest, across the Mediterranean in North Africa
Northeast, beyond the Alps in central Europe
Northwest, across the English Channel in Britain
Southeast, beyond the Black Sea in western Asia
15. A traveler following the Nile northward would eventually reach the Mediterranean coast of which Roman province?
Africa Proconsularis
Britannia
Aegyptus
Lusitania
16. The Roman provinces collectively known as Hispania occupied which peninsula?
The Jutland Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula
The Crimean Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula