Deck 6: The Decline of the Roman Republic 120-44 BCE

Question 1

Marius' restructured the Roman army by abandoning maniples in favor of the six-hundred man ______.

A) cohort
B) legion
C) socius
D) phalanx

Answer 1

A

Question 2

After a swift victory at the Battle of Zela, ______ sent the famous message "veni, vidi, vici" to the Senate.

A) Pompey
B) Caesar
C) Cassius
D) Brutus

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following was not accomplished by Pompey in the eastern Mediterranean?

A) He deposed the last Seleucid king
B) He made Syria into a new Roman province
C) He besieged and eventually stormed the temple mount in Jerusalem
D) He destroyed much of the city of Alexandria

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Famously saying, "The die is cast," Julius Caesar crossed the ______ River in 49 BCE, thus entering into rebellion against Rome.

A) Arno
B) Rubicon
C) Po
D) Tiber

Question 5

War captives labored, typically under harsh conditions, on senatorial estates called ______.

A) agri senatorum
B) agri privati
C) latifundia
D) terrae privatae

Question 6

The most famous prose writers in the late Republican period also had active political careers.

Question 7

Marcus Licinius Crassus was the richest man in Rome.

Question 8

The Social War was largely ended by legislation that granted Roman citizenship to allied Italian cities.

Question 9

Julius Caesar defeated Vercingetorix and the Gauls once and for all at the Battle of the Colline Gate.

Question 10

Marius lost credibility as a popular leader when he obeyed the Senate, resulting in the deaths of two Tribunes who were his political allies.

Question 11

Mithridates VI's attempt to kill himself with arsenic was foiled when his loyal servant refused to administer it.

Question 12

The land law of Tiberius Gracchus went into effect, even though he was killed.

Question 13

The Julian calendar made a year consist of 365 days, but failed to institute a leap year every fourth year.

Question 14

Sulla's most important legacy was his resigning of the title Dictator for Restoring the Republic within the customary six months, thus preserving the Roman constitution.

Question 15

Julius Caesar's family was supposedly descended from the goddess Venus.