Deck 10: Rome from City-State to Empire

Question 1

Discuss Roman politics in the republic and after.

Answer 1

Answers would include patrician,plebeians,consuls,censors,tribunes,proconsul,proletariat,Julius Caesar,Principate,reforms of Augustus,and municipia.

Question 2

Elaborate on Roman military history and its significance to Roman politics.

Answer 2

Answers would include Punic Wars,Carthage,Greece,proconsul,proletariat,First and Second Triumvirate,and Augustus.

Question 3

The Romans seem to have viewed the Greeks as

A) rivals and defeated enemies.
B) democratic role-models.
C) self-indulgent degenerates.
D) culturally superior to themselves.
E) their equals in warfare.

Answer 3

culturally superior to themselves.

Question 4

Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Roman Republican society.

Question 5

Phoenician culture influenced Italy through the great North African city-state of

A) Carthage.
B) Timbuktu.
C) Thebes.
D) Corinth.
E) Zama.

Question 6

The tribunes,who numbered about ten,were

A) the conscience of the Senate.
B) parliamentarians for the General Assembly.
C) the main representatives of the plebeians.
D) originally tax assessors.
E) representatives of the patricians.

Question 7

After the passage of the Hortensian law,the Roman community

A) achieved total social democracy.
B) remained essentially democratic in structure for a time.
C) saw many poverty-stricken ex-farmers migrating into the city.
D) granted Italians partial citizenship rights.
E) became an autocracy.

Question 8

Describe and discuss the reforms initiated by Augustus Caesar.Which would you consider most significant? How?

Question 9

The First Punic War broke out over the issue of

A) dominance over Spain.
B) control of the Alps.
C) control of the Mediterranean.
D) Latin revolts.
E) control over Sicily.

Question 10

The Romans finally defeated the Carthaginian general,Hannibal,by

A) using modern technology they had taken from the Etruscans.
B) invading Carthage, forcing him to return home.
C) controlling Sicily so that he could not get reinforcements.
D) taking charge of Sardinia, thus leading him to divide his forces.
E) forcing the Carthaginians completely out of Africa and Spain.

Question 11

A change that took place in Rome after the Punic Wars was that

A) military commanders came to be elected rather than appointed.
B) Rome developed a volunteer, professional army.
C) the Senate took firmer control of Rome and its military.
D) plebeians began to join the military in large numbers.
E) members of the Senate took over military strategy.

Question 12

The actions of Marius led to

A) a professional, volunteer army that could be easily swayed.
B) mass transportation of slaves.
C) the allocation of state-owned land to soldiers.
D) greater military stability.
E) an extensive road-building program.

Question 13

Trace the development of Rome highlighting the influences that were significant to that development.

Question 14

In which of these ways did the Romans exhibit their pragmatism and flexibility?

A) They allowed their soldiers to adopt different religions.
B) They incorporated conquered peoples into their military to assure they had strong numbers.
C) They took a large number of defeated peoples back to Rome to serve as manual laborers.
D) They permitted full citizenship to certain conquered peoples, thereby allowing those people to feel a deep affinity for their new leaders.
E) They encouraged their soldiers to marry young women from the conquered groups.

Question 15

The proportional population in early Republican Rome between patricians and plebeians stood at around

A) 20:80 percent.
B) 50:50 percent.
C) 10:90 percent.
D) 25:75 percent.
E) 40:60 percent.

Question 16

An unusual aspect of the early Roman government was that

A) the General Assembly was made up entirely of plebeians, or commoners.
B) the Roman bureaucracy voluntarily began to permit plebeians to participate.
C) the Senate was less powerful than the General Assembly.
D) two consuls ran the government together, taking turns as head of the military and head of the civil government.
E) both the Senate and the General Assembly had veto power over the consuls.

Question 17

Roman sources,which may or may not be accurate,assert that they were able to defeat the Etruscans because

A) the Etruscans would not accept the concept of a monarchy.
B) the Etruscans enjoyed life too much to accept the training, fighting, and dying required by sustained warfare.
C) the Etruscans actually admired Roman culture and were ready to become acculturated to it.
D) they had superior weapons to those of the Etruscans.
E) Etruscan kingship went into a sharp decline that left the people helpless.

Question 18

Through a series of military conflicts,the city-state of Rome eventually came to control

A) Sicily and the part of the peninsula from Rome southward.
B) the entire northern part of the peninsula.
C) the west coast of Italy.
D) Italy's good farmland.
E) virtually the entire Italian peninsula.

Question 19

What reform did Augustus initiate in military matters?

A) He reduced military service time to ten years.
B) He expanded Rome's borders.
C) He introduced the use of the phalanx.
D) He cut the size of the army in half.
E) He enhanced the army's role in politics.

Question 20

Describe the major elements of early Roman culture.

Question 21

Which of the following best describes Roman slavery in the 3?? and 4?? centuries?

A) The number of slaves went down dramatically.
B) More people were selling themselves into slavery.
C) Rape of a slave was a capital offense.
D) Slavery ended in the 4th century.
E) Roman slavery was much more benevolent than in other areas.

Question 22

Julius Caesar is famous for

A) changing France's form of government after he conquered the region.
B) becoming dictator with the initial support of the Senate.
C) being murdered by senators who feared his dictatorial rule.
D) adopting Octavian and supporting his ideas to re-form a republic.
E) winning the battle of Actium.

Question 23

Virgil's masterpiece,an epic about the founding of Rome,was

A) Meditations.
B) History of Rome.
C) The Aeneid.
D) On the Nature of Things.
E) The Iliad.

Question 24

Originally,the plebeians were represented in government by the ____________________,and the patricians by the ____________________.

Question 25

It can most accurately be said that women in Roman society

A) were never given professional employment.
B) worked in all trades to some extent.
C) worked in all trades not requiring heavy labor.
D) were excluded from religious life.
E) were accepted as equals in all trades.

Question 26

Most Roman subjects were

A) slaves.
B) merchants.
C) artisans.
D) in the military.
E) farmers.

Question 27

The Stoic philosopher Seneca was distinguished in his writing by a new note of

A) pessimism.
B) pragmatism.
C) humane compassion.
D) optimism.
E) detached indifference.

Question 28

Roman deities most closely resemble

A) Greek deities.
B) Jewish prophets.
C) Sumerian deities.
D) Egyptian beliefs.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 29

The decisive battle of the Punic Wars was the Roman victory at ____________________ in 202 B.C.E.

Question 30

Religious practices during the Roman Empire could best be described as

A) rigidly proscribed.
B) eclectic and accepting.
C) continually questioning the meaning of life.
D) unimportant to most people.
E) centered almost entirely on the mystery religions.

Question 31

Which of the following was one area in which male and female children were equal?

A) Consent in marriage; it was required by both parties.
B) Divorce; in fact it was easier for women to obtain a divorce.
C) Legally; men and women were considered equal.
D) Education; both girls and boys were educated.
E) They were never considered equal in any aspect.

Question 32

Rome's new urban proletariat

A) took over the jobs formerly held by the Senators.
B) had been forced off their lands and into the cities.
C) found it difficult to adjust to non-military life.
D) sold their labor as their only source of income.
E) began to vote more independently as time went on.

Question 33

When conquered by Rome,the upper classes of Italy and Greece were encouraged to integrate themselves by becoming ____________________.

Question 34

The reason Rome did not immediate seek to control all of the Hellenistic kingdoms was

A) political; some politicians supported expansion and some did not.
B) economic; there was nothing to be gained in acquiring that territory.
C) social; Romans never tried to incorporate new people into their society.
D) cultural; Romans felt they were superior to Greek society in every way.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 35

The outstanding Carthaginian general whose march across the Alps nearly destroyed Rome was ____________________.

Question 36

The battle that defeated Carthage was the Battle of

A) Sicily.
B) Gibraltar.
C) Actium.
D) Zama.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 37

One unique aspect of the Pax Romana was its

A) support for the arts.
B) brevity.
C) special consideration given to the Roman citizens.
D) extensive road system financed by taxes.
E) set of common laws that were upheld in a number of places that Rome conquered.

Question 38

The Romans seem to have been the most original and innovative in

A) law and administration.
B) science.
C) mathematics.
D) religion and philosophy.
E) drama.

Question 39

After changing his name to Augustus Caesar,Octavian

A) disbanded the Senate and called for new elections.
B) quietly removed most of the Senate's powers.
C) took direct control of the army, which he reduced by half.
D) became consul for life.
E) turned Rome into a successful constitutional monarchy.

Question 40

In actuality,the solutions Augustus used to care for the poor,such as providing grain and oil when needed,would today cause Rome to be viewed as a type of

A) commune.
B) utopian society.
C) welfare state.
D) "Great Society."
E) communist regime.

Question 41

Roman philosophy was built almost entirely on ____________________ models.

Question 42

The ____________________ that the consuls had over each other is indicative of the early Roman fear of permanent dictatorship.

Question 43

Augustus Caesar preferred to be called "princeps," which meant ____________________.

Question 44

Members of the proletariat were those who owned and could sell only their ____________________.

Question 45

After the battle of Zama,Carthage was forced to give up most of its holdings in ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 46

The chief representatives of the populace who originally defended the interest of common Roman citizens were the ____________________.