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NLE Geography
National Latin Exam focused on Geography
Question | Answer |
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River dividing Germany and Gaul. Invaders crossed it to attack some of Caesar’s allies. | Rhine |
The country you reach sailing eastward from Athens across the Aegean Sea. | Turkey |
Important city located in northern Africa. | Carthage |
Province at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea that fell under the domination of the Persian Empire before being conquered by the Greeks and later added to the Roman Empire. | Asia |
Island, the mythological home to the Minotaur and the labyrinth, that forms the southern boundary of the Aegean Sea. | Crete |
General direction that Julius Caesar traveled through Italy on his way to Gaul. | North |
Alexandria and Carthage were great cities of the ancient world located in | Africa |
Italian port city that Caesar departed from when he sailed to meet Pompey in Greece. | Brundisium |
Trojan Aeneas encountered the boatman Charon here. | In Hades |
The Rubicon River | Separated Italy from Gaul |
Quirinal, Viminal, Palatine, and Aventine | Hills in Rome |
Place where Roman soldiers gathered to exercise or train | Campus Martius |
A Roman traveling from Brundisium to Greece would sail across | The Adriatic Sea |
Body of water that lies between Italy and Greece | Adriatic Sea |
Island near Italy | Sicily |
When Theseus sailed from Athens to Crete, he traveled in this general direction | South |
Magna Graecia, an area of Greek colonization, was located | In Italia |
Mountain range that separated Gaul from Spain | The Pyrenees |
Mount Olympus, the legendary home of the gods, is located | in Northern Greece |
If you sail west from Turkey across the Aegean Sea you reach this country | Greece |
If you sail west from Greece across the Adriatic Sea you reach this country | Italy |
If you sail from Italy to Greece you cross this body of water | Adriatic Sea |
If you sail from Greece to Turkey you cross this body of water | Aegean Sea |
Mountain range located in northern Italy | Alps |
Body of water found to the south of Italy | The Ionian Sea |
Body of water to the west of Italy | The Mediterranean Sea |
When Marc Antony went to Egypt, this is the direction he sailed across the Ionian sea | South |
Palentine Hill | Became location of the senate house |
Province at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea that fell under the domination of the Persian Empire before being conquered by the Greeks and was later added to the Roman Empire | Asia |
Capitoline Hill | Site of the Temple of Jupiter |