| ERA | The 'E" In BCE |
| BELL | The "B" in "BCE" |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| VERONA | The site of this Italian city became a Roman colony in 89 BCE and was captured by Charlemagne in 774. It is one of the richest cities in northern Italy in Roman remains. The amphitheatre located there |
| ROMAN | The name for the ancient empire that spanned the Mediterranean Sea; it was established in 27 BCE after the fall of the republic of the same name. (5) |
| CATANIA | This city in Italy was founded in 729 BCE by Chalcidians and then renamed Aetna in the 5th century BCE. It is home to ancient Roman and Greek ruins and structures, and it was rebuilt in Baroque style |
| MANTUA | This is a city in the region of Lombardy. Roman colonization began about 220 BCE, and the poet Virgil was born at nearby Andes in 70 BCE. In Romeo and Juliet (act 3, scene 5), Juliet says, "It is some |
| FLORENCE | It was founded as a Roman military colony about the 1st century BCE. It is the capital of Tuscany. In The Taming of the Shrew (act 1, scene 1), Lucentio says, "A merchant of great traffic through the |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| TUNISIA | According to Greek legend, Dido founded the city of Carthage in this country in the 9th century BCE. That city is now a suburb of the country's capital. |
| ANTIOCH | Now in Turkey, this city was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals in the 4th century BCE |
| LYON | A Roman military colony called Lugdunum was founded on the site of this French city in 43 BCE, and it subsequently became the capital of the Gauls. This place reached its peak of classical development |
| TACTICUS | During the 4th century BCE, he wrote On the Defense of Fortifications, one chapter of which was devoted to cryptography, making it the earliest treatise on the subject. |
| PANTHEON | It was built as a temple in the Campus Martius, Rome, by Marcus Agrippa, 27 BCE. It is now used as a church. The body of the building is an immense circular space lit solely a 27-foot (8-metre) "eye," |
| AESOP | Greek slave, born around 620 BCE, who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Bo |
| SUMERIAN | Language of Mesopotamia from 3,000 BCE until it finally fell from use at the beginning of the first millennium of the current era |
| THEGREAT | Macedonian king who conquered most of the known world in the 4th century BCE, Alexander ... (3,5) |
| ORVIETO | City in modern-day Umbria, annexed by Rome in the 3rd Century BCE (7) |
| CHEOPS | Greek name of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (c. 2575-2465 BCE), who commissioned the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza (6) |
| MACCABEE | Jewish rebel warrior who took part in the control of Judea around the second century BCE (8) |
