Deck 4: Rome: From City-State to World Empire

Question 1

The authors of your text refer specifically to the great accomplishment of Rome as

A) its military conquest of the Mediterranean.
B) distinguishing themselves by their prophets.
C) developing a religion that was appealing to so many peoples.
D) originating the tradition of the Pontifex Maximus.
E) transcending a narrow city state era into a world state of different nations and peoples.

Answer 1

transcending a narrow city state era into a world state of different nations and peoples.

Question 2

An entire 60,000 man Roman army was completely destroyed at the hands of Hannibal at

A) Zama.
B) Cannae.
C) Pontus.
D) Cisalpine Passes.
E) Corsica.

Answer 2

Cannae.

Question 3

Julius Caesar's successful campaigns in ____ revealed his exceptional talent for generalship.

A) Spain
B) Germany
C) Gaul
D) Macedonia
E) Asia Minor

Answer 3

Gaul

Question 4

The author characterizes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus as

A) radicals aiming to overthrow existing political and property relations.
B) moderate reformers trying to deal with real social problems.
C) intransigent defenders of the great landowners' interests.
D) Carthaginian agents.
E) enemies of the landless peasants.

Question 5

Which Roman poet from northern Italy is regarded as one of the world's great lyric poets?

A) Catullus
B) Plautus
C) Terence
D) Cato
E) Lucretius

Question 6

Rome became a republic when

A) the plebeians won the right to elect Tribunes.
B) the dictator Julius Caesar was overthrown.
C) the patricians overthrew the Etruscan king.
D) Romulus settled on the seven hills.
E) the Etruscans controlled the government of Rome.

Question 7

Which of the following statement is TRUE in reference to slavery during the era of Pax Romana?

A) Slaves were freed if they served in the military.
B) Wars and foreign excursions actually decreased the number of slaves.
C) Children born to slave women and Roman citizens were put to death.
D) Freed slaves were forced to leave the city of Rome.
E) Laws were passed to protect slaves from cruel masters.

Question 8

The Roman constitution

A) evolved slowly and was never written down.
B) was created by Cicero.
C) was written down when the Tribal Assembly was created.
D) was copied from the Athenian constitution.
E) derived from abstract thought.

Question 9

The consul Marius' most significant innovation was

A) to recruit the urban poor for army service and offer them land grants after discharge.
B) introduction of the office of Dictator.
C) the sale of provincial governorships to the highest bidder.
D) encouraging a cult that worshipped him as a god.
E) creating an army whose loyalty was to Rome and not the commander of the army.

Question 10

The Emperor Nerva initiated

A) the adoptive system to provide for competent Roman rulers.
B) a policy to free slaves in their old age.
C) the cult of Mithra.
D) the opening of the army to barbarian enlistment.
E) the strengthening of border defenses of Rome.

Question 11

The significance of Octavian's willingness to abandon his power in 27 B.C. rests in

A) the magnitude of his military failure.
B) his belief that it created legitimacy and removed his reign from the taint of despotism.
C) his hope that the Senate would proclaim him a god.
D) the fact that it never happened; his admirers later created this myth.
E) his belief that the Senate would proclaim him as king.

Question 12

The First Punic War began because

A) Carthage appeared to be economically weak and susceptible to Roman power.
B) Rome was concerned that Carthage would take Messana and interfere with Roman trade.
C) Hannibal led troops into Spain.
D) both Rome and Carthage were interfering in Greece.
E) Carthage expanded to Spain.

Question 13

The first emperor of Rome was

A) Julius Caesar.
B) Claudius.
C) Marcus Junius Brutus.
D) Octavian.
E) Vespasian.

Question 14

One of the consequences of Roman expansion during the Republic was

A) the introduction of slavery to Rome.
B) Roman contact with the legal experience of the Greeks and other peoples, which influenced the law of nations.
C) the concept of equal citizenship except for freed slaves.
D) the enslavement of Roman citizens.
E) higher taxation of conquered peoples.

Question 15

All of the following indexed the rising status of upper-class women in Rome except

A) the banning of prostitution.
B) a law prohibiting fathers from marrying their daughters against their will.
C) a law allowing women to draw up wills without the consent of their husbands.
D) Roman women were not secluded in their homes as upper-class Greek women were.
E) Roman women could own property and if divorced, keep their dowry.

Question 16

The term Pax Romana applies best to

A) the period of the early Latin tribes.
B) what Romans called a "Time of Happiness."
C) the stipulation that the father controlled the Roman household.
D) the comparatively uncomplicated politics of the Roman Republic.
E) the period of the struggle between the Patricians and the Plebeians.

Question 17

Two of Caesar's trusted friends ____ and ____ joined Octavius, Caesar's adopted son to defeat the senatorial party that had conspired to assassinate Caesar.

A) Brutus; Cassius
B) Antony; Lepidus
C) Antony; Cleopatra
D) Marius; Sulla
E) Crassus; Tiberius

Question 18

Before his assassination, Caesar accomplished all the following except he

A) fought exploitation in the provinces.
B) generously extended citizenship to more provincials.
C) began a public works program that created employment.
D) beautified Rome.
E) discouraged the relocation of Roman citizens to the provinces.

Question 19

Romans borrowed all of the following from the Etruscans except

A) road construction skills.
B) architectural styles.
C) a secularized political system.
D) portrait sculpture.
E) hydraulic engineering.

Question 20

Jewish resentment of Roman rule was exacerbated in the A.D. 30s and 40s by

A) a Roman ban on the practice of Judaism.
B) Roman conversion of the Jerusalem temple into a temple for pagan gods.
C) the Roman introduction of Gothic colonists into Palestine.
D) the order of Caligula to have a statue of himself placed in the temple in Jerusalem.
E) the Roman endorsement of monotheism in Judea.

Question 21

Which of the following Roman historians denounced imperial rule and described the Germanic people as heroic?

A) Marcus Aurelius
B) Mithridates
C) Tacitus
D) Salvianus
E) Seneca

Question 22

Which Roman emperor allowed the Goths to cross the Danube frontier?

A) Vespasian
B) Diocletian
C) Constantine
D) Valens
E) Trajan

Question 23

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Julius Caesar

Question 24

The Roman Empire was said to have ended when

A) Diocletian died.
B) Odoacer was assassinated.
C) Romulus was placed on the throne.
D) German officers placed a German on the throne.
E) Attila the Hun invaded Rome.

Question 25

While Diocletian ruled the Western Roman Empire from Rome, Constantine built a new capital for the Eastern Roman Empire at

A) Ankara
B) Constantinople
C) Ephesus
D) Corinth
E) Troy

Question 26

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Patricians

Question 27

Ptolemy, the second century A.D. Alexandrian scholar, summarized the Greco-Roman world's knowledge of

A) astronomy.
B) medicine.
C) physics.
D) anthropology.
E) geography.

Question 28

The term used by city officials frozen to their positions under emperors Diocletian and Constantine was

A) curiales.
B) princeps.
C) portico.
D) ostracon.
E) maximus.

Question 29

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Punic Wars

Question 30

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Lucretius

Question 31

The Roman Empire will actually survive into the 15^th century as

A) the Byzantine Empire.
B) a Germanic Empire of the Goths.
C) province of the Mongolian Empire
D) the Vatican
E) the western province of the Islamic Empire.

Question 32

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Spartacus

Question 33

Who met his only defeat in Gaul at the hands of some Germans and remnants of the Roman army?

A) Alaric
B) Nero
C) Attila
D) Diocletian
E) The Visigoths

Question 34

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
Actium

Question 35

Which of the following emperors divided Rome into two⎯western and eastern Rome?

A) Octavian
B) Valerian
C) Caligula
D) Claudius
E) Constantine

Question 36

Virgil's epic The Aeneid was written because

A) Virgil wanted to protest against the tyrannous rule of Augustus.
B) the Senate commissioned it to commemorate victory in the Punic Wars.
C) Augustus commissioned it to glorify his role in founding the Empire.
D) Pontius Pilate commissioned it to please Augustus.
E) Cicero used it to promote Roman virtues.

Question 37

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Gaius Gracchus

Question 38

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Tiberius Gracchus

Question 39

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Twelve Tables

Question 40

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Latifundia

Question 41

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Aeneid

Question 42

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Tiber River

Question 43

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Carthage

Question 44

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Hadrian

Question 45

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Meditations

Question 46

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Octavian

Question 47

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Nero

Question 48

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The Romans were strongly influenced by other cultural traditions. Provide some examples of these influences.

Question 49

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Did Roman expansion following the Punic Wars produce essentially beneficial results? Does it provide examples of the inhumanity that a conqueror may exhibit? Explain.

Question 50

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Augustus

Question 51

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Livia

Question 52

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Pax Romana

Question 53

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Neo-Platonism

Question 54

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Virgil

Question 55

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"bread and circuses"

Question 56

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Horace

Question 57

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Ptolemy

Question 58

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Antoninus Pius

Question 59

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Hannibal

Question 60

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Attila

Question 61

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Trace the main developments of the Roman constitution. Compare the way the Roman constitution developed with the Greek attitude toward law as expressed by Solon.

Question 62

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Although the Pax Romana is generally presented as a period of great peace and stability, there was a great deal of unrest among the emperor's subjects. Summarize some examples of unrest, violence, and political instability during the Pax Romana.

Question 63

The Second Punic War ended when Hannibal was defeated by ​

A) ​Julius Caesar
B) ​Scipio Africanus
C) ​Spartacus
D) ​Marcus Sergius​
E) ​Cincinnatus

Question 64

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Could you say that Rome's involvement in the Punic Wars depended on the same causes for each period of fighting?

Question 65

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

On the map of Europe, specify areas of contention between Rome and Carthage: Messana, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Spain, the Po Valley, Cannae, and Carthage.

Question 66

​The plebeians were represented in the

A) ​Tribal Assembly
B) ​Centuriate Assembly​
C) ​Agrippa Congress​
D) ​Senate
E) ​Twelve Tables

Question 67

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Discuss the establishment of the Roman Empire, evaluating whether each of the following was particularly significant: personality, military strength, or the principle of legitimacy. How would you explain the source of sovereignty during that period?

Question 68

​At the Battle of Actium, Octavian defeated

A) ​Antony and Cleopatra
B) ​Caesar and Brutus​
C) ​Augustus and Antony​
D) ​Lepidus and Crassus​
E) ​Marius and Sulla

Question 69

The creation of a Roman constitution derived from the ​

A) ​Struggle of Orders
B) ​Punic Wars
C) ​Greek traditions​
D) ​Patricians
E) ​barbarian invasions

Question 70

​According to the author, the genius of Rome lays in the area of

A) ​art
B) ​philosophy
C) ​law and government
D) ​science
E) ​literature

Question 71

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).


-On the map of Europe, locate where the following tragedies occurred: the siege at Masada; the volcanic eruption that covered Pompeii and Herculaneum; the Battle of Adrianople; and Alaric's plunder of Rome.

Question 72

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Give three reasons why the Roman Empire deserves to be remembered and studied.

Question 73

​Cicero's accomplishments include all except

A) ​Senator
B) ​distinguished orator
C) ​Roman statesman
D) ​student of Greek philosophy
E) ​general

Question 74

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Which factors contributed to the development of Rome as a great military state?

Question 75

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On the map of Europe, fill in the area that was controlled by the Roman Empire under Augustus.

Question 76

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Did Rome treat overseas peoples in the same way that it treated its Italian allies?

Question 77

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-On the map of Europe, fill in the areas that were considered Roman territories in 140 B.C. and in 44 B.C.

Question 78

Which statement is not true of the two consuls​

A) ​they came from nobility
B) ​they commanded the army
C) they served as judges​
D) ​they initiated legislation
E) ​they functioned as chief priests of Rome

Question 79

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

Summarize the multiple reasons for the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

Question 80

Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s).

What were the accomplishments of the first Roman emperor, Augustus?