Test and train your knowledge of ancient Rome

RomeDrill starts you with five questions and no sign-up, then drills the rest into you.

A free study app for ancient Roman history, from the founding of the city in 753 BC to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476. Nearly 3,000 entries and more than 12,000 questions, ordered from the core canon to specialist detail.

Four ways to learn

• Study: spaced-repetition flashcards that bring each fact back just before you forget it.
• Quiz: rapid-fire multiple choice with plausible wrong answers: neighbouring emperors, nearby dates.
• Timeline: place emperors, battles and buildings in chronological order. Three lives.
• Maps: find monuments on an unlabelled map of the city of Rome, and provinces, cities and roads across the empire.

What it covers

• Every Roman emperor and the seven kings, with reigns, dynasties and how each reign ended
• A timeline of Roman history and the major battles
• The monuments of the city of Rome, its hills, gates and bridges
• The aqueducts, the roads and the provinces
• Roman gods, festivals, magistrates and the cursus honorum, the army and Latin literature

Useful for Classics and Ancient History students, Latin exam and Certamen preparation, tour guides, and anyone about to visit Rome. No account, no ads; it installs on your phone and works offline. Browse the reference lists.