Question 1: Why did Rome have multiple forums?

Question 2: Why is the city of Rome's location geographically improbable?

Question 3: According to its founding story, why was Rome named after Romulus, not his twin brother Remus?

Question 4: When they overthrew the Etruscans in 510 BCE, what did the Romans decide not to have in their society?

Question 5: Why did Augustus permanently banish the poet Ovid from Rome?

Question 6: As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section, why is Venice home to a vast amount of Byzantine art?

Question 7: Why in 325 CE did Constantine move his capital from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople?

Question 8: Why did the San Vitale artists depict their subjects in reverse perspective and in shallow space?

Question 9: Why did the Byzantine emperor Leo III inaugurate a program of iconoclasm?

Question 10: Why did early Christians develop symbols to identify themselves to each other?