Roman Republic

Question 1

Rome was established in the first millennium B.C. on the

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Plain of Latium

Question 2

All of the following about the etruscans are correct except they

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Expelled many of romes patrician class and established a republic in Rome and 509 B.C.

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Which of the following statements regarding the etruscans is regarded as historically factual

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They transformed Rome from a pastoral to an urban community

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Loves account of Cincinnatus

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Tells how the virtues of duty and simplicity in the behavior of leaders enabled rome to survive in difficult times

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Rome set a precedent for treating it’s vanquished foes after forming the Roman confederation by

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Offering the most flavored allied people full Roman citizenship, thus giving them a stake in successful Roman expansion

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Romes conquest of the Italian peninsula iby 264 B.C. can be attributed in part to

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Superb diplomacy

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In defeating the Greek city states in southern Italy, Rome

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How to fight the soldiers of king Pyrrhus sent against them by the Greeks

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The Roman dictator

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Was a temporary executive during the period the period of the republic

Evercised unlimited power for a period of usually six months

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The struggle of the orders

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Was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise

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Which of the following statements about Roman names is incorrect

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The nomen was the hereditary family name

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Executive authority or imperium during the Roman Republic

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was held by the consuls and proctors

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As Roma expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as

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Proconsuls and protractors

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The paterfamilias in Roman society was

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The male head of household

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Originally the Roman senate

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Could only advise the magistrates in legal matters

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The male achievement of the hortensias law in Roman constitutional history was its

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Ruling that all piehiscita passed by the plebeian assembly had the force of law and were building

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In the struggle with the partricians, romans plebeians employed which of the following tactics

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A physical withdrawal from the state undercutting in military manpower

Assassination of political opponents

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The 12 tables was where

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The first formal codification of Roman law and customs

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Which of the following statements about the Roman armies in the early republic is incorrect

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Most soldiers were slaves

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The Carthaginiams originated from

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Phoenician tyre

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The intermediate course of the first punic water was

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Rome sending an army to Sicily

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As a result of the first punic war

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The carhaginiams were forced to withdraw from Sicily and pay an indemnity to rome

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What was the significance of Scipio Africanus in the second punic war

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He expelled the carthaginians from Spain and later won the decisive battle of Zama

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The second punic war saw Carthage

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Carry a land war to rome by crossing the alps

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The Roman senator who led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage was

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Cato

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At the battle of cannae, the romans

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Suffered a devastating defeat by Hannibal

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The result of the third punic war was

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The complete destruction and subjugation of Carthage

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It can be said that Roman imperial expansion was

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Highly opportunistic, responding to unanticipated military threats and possibilities for glory

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For the roman’s, Italy’s geography

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Made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend

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The head of the Roman religious observances was

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The pontifex Maximus

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In Roman religion, a right relationship with the Gods was achieved by

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Accurate performance of rituals and festivals

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Roman religious practices included

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College of priests to carry out rituals correctly

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Which of the following statements best applies to Roman schooling

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Education stressed training in Greek and mastery of rhetoric or persuasive public speaking

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Find the latter republic, Roman slaves

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Often worked on the Roman latifundia

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Roman upper class women usually

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Had some independent legal rights and property

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In Rome, the mail family head, the paterfamilias, could

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All of the above

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The Romans most noticeable innovations in art and culture were found in

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Architecture and engineering

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Romans did not readily except any Greek philosophy except that of

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Stoicism, because of its emphasis on virtue and duty

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The optimates and populares were

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Political groups from the aristocratic class of Rome in the late republic

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Romans such as Sallust attributed the change of values in the republic overtime to

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All of the above

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The reforms of Gaius and Tiberius gracchus

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Resulted in further instability and violence as they polarized various social groups

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The equites

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Were a wealthy and ambitious class of Romans who appeared in the late republic

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Sullas Legacy and importantance was that he

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Employed his personal army and political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war

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Among the dangerous military innovations of Mario’s threatening the republic, one finds he

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Recruited destitute volunteers who swore on ly on oath of allegiance only to him

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Cicero

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All of the above

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Julius ceasar

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Lead military commands in Spain and especially gaull that enhanced his popularity

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The first triumvirate included

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Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey

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By crossing the Rubicon, Caesars showed that he

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Was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate

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All of the following were results of the Roman civil wars of 43–30 B.C. except the

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Second triumvirate’s defeat of Pompey at the battle of actium

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Which Roman writer is most closely associated with the development of a new poetry at the end of the Roman Republic

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Catullus

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After imposed retirement from Roman politics, Cicero took of writing

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Philosophical treaties