Ancient History Quizzes

Ancient Greece: People and Places

Answer ten clear questions about the people, events and ideas that shaped Ancient Greece, with a historical explanation after every answer.

Easy

Rome: Republic, Empire and Legacy

Answer ten clear questions about the people, events and ideas that shaped Roman History, with a historical explanation after every answer.

The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens

Ancient Greece: City-States and Culture

Explore Ancient Greece through its city-states, wars, politics, religion and ideas, with explanations connecting facts to the wider Greek world.

Ancient Greece: Society, War and Ideas

Test your knowledge of ten distinct events and developments from Ancient Greece, with a historical explanation after every answer.

Roman Baths in Bath Spa, England July 2006, illustrating Roman Britain

Roman Britain

Test your knowledge of Roman Britain, from conquest and resistance to towns, religion, Hadrian's Wall and the end of Roman rule.

Roman History: Evidence and Interpretation

Test your knowledge of ten distinct events and developments from Roman History, with a historical explanation after every answer.

Pnyx Bema 2, illustrating Athenian Democracy

Hard

Athenian Democracy

Institutions, participation and limits in democratic Athens.

Augustus of Prima Porta, illustrating Roman Emperors

Hard

Roman Emperors

Identify the emperors, reforms, successions and crises that shaped Roman government from Augustus to the later imperial world.

Roman Empire Trajan 117AD, illustrating Roman Empire

Hard

The Roman Empire

Test your knowledge of the Roman Republic and Empire, including expansion, government, emperors, religion and Rome's long historical legacy.