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The main issue in the Struggle of the Orders was the |
plebeians’ efforts to obtain recognition of their rights |
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Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to death because |
he was concerned about maintaining social order |
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The challenge of feeding Rome’s large population was solved during its "golden age" by |
providing free bread, olive oil and wine to the population |
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the Carthaginian general who brought the Second Punic War to Rome was |
Hannibal |
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The city of Carthage was founded by what culture in the eighth century BCE? |
Phoenicia |
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In addition to war, mars was also the god of |
farmland |
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In the Roman Empire, slavery |
became more widespread as the empire grew |
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In the civil war that followed the end of the first triumvirate, who did the Senate support? |
Pompey |
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The first Punic War ended with a Roman victory and the creation of Rome’s first |
navy |
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As dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar |
enacted a series of basic reforms throughout the empire. |
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According to tradition, in 509 BCE the Romans expelled the Etruscans following |
the rape of a Roman women by an Etruscan king |
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Some Roman military losses were blamed on the cult of what god or goddess? |
Vesta |
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According to the Romans creation myth, Romulus ruled Rome with the assistance of |
a senate |
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The Romans referred to the native people of northern and eastern Europe as |
barbarians |
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The Etruscans had a non-Indo-European language but borrowed there writing system from |
Greece |
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Augustus established himself as princeps civitatis, or |
first citizen of the state |
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One of the most important improvements in urban planning in the second century CE was the creation of |
hundreds of miles of aqueducts powered by gravity |
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Romans borrowed many elements of culture from other civilizations, including baths from |
Greece |
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in the Etruscan culture, the fasces symbol was used to signify |
the king’s power |
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In tradition Roman families, women |
could inherit and own property |
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In Roman families the paterfamilias was the |
oldest dominant male, who had near absolute power. |
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The term "latifundia" refers to |
huge agricultural estates |
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Who or what did militant Jews believe would come and destroy he Roman Empire? |
The Messiah |
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Pagan Romans particularly objected to what early Christian practice? |
The Lord’s last Supper ritual |
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Before the Romans controlled italy, what other civilization built cities in Southern Italy and Sicily? |
Greece |
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When the Romans conquered lands and created provinces, they placed whom in charge? |
Ex-consuls |
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The emperor Constantine |
supported Christianity |
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Roman religion was largely concerned with |
ritual |
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the Roman general who won a momentous battle in 202 BCE near the town of Zama was |
Scipio Africanus |
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In the third century BCE the main challenge to Roman control of the Mediteranean came from |
Carthage |
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During to Struggle of the Orders, the Plebeians forced political concessions through |
a general strike of soldiers |
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Paul of Tarsus believed that |
Christ’s teachings should be proclaimed to all |
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The villages that became Rome were located on what river? |
Tiber |
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In the early republic, Roman society was divided into |
Romans and non-Romans |
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The main feature of the reform program proposed by tiberius Gracchus was the |
distribution of public land to poor Romans |
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The stone Tower in Afghanistan was important as |
the site where Chinese and Parthian merchants exchanged goods |
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The most significant political change by Diocletian was his |
division of the Roman Empire into two parts |
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The role of middlemen in the trade along the Silk Road between the Romans and the Chinese was played by |
parthians |
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According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BCE by |
Romulus and Remus |
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During its "golden age" Roman expansion in continental Europe was led by |
retired soldiers |
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Under Augustus, women could be freed from male guardianship if they |
had a certain number of children |
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Gaius Marius recruited landless men to serve in the army by promising them what in payment? |
land |
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One result of the Struggle of the Orders was the creation of a law code that made all |
all citizens, plebeians and patrician, equal before the law |
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Roma et Augustus refers to the |
cult of the emperor and the state |
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In the early republic, political power and military leadership was controlled by |
patricians |
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After defeating Carthage in the Second Punic War, Romen conquered |
Greece and Macedonia |
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What did Romans build in conquered areas to help stabilize their rule and increase communication |
roads |
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One of Augustus’s reforms was to transform the army into |
a permanent standing army |
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An important difference between the political system of the Romans and the Greeks was |
Rome extended citizenship to its conquered people, while the Greeks did not |
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Augustus ended the age of civil wars in the empire with his victory at the |
Battle of Actium |
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During the republic, the Roman Senate |
advised officials and consuls |
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According to Romulus and Remus myth, the Romans were descended from |
gods |
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Hannibal failed to win the Second Punic War in part because |
he lacked food and supplies for his troops |
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The forum of Rome was, under the Etruscan kings, originally a |
cemetery |
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The historical documentation of the life of Jesus comes from |
gospels written many decades after his death |
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Other than Greeks, the first people to build cities in Italy were |
Etruscans |
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Early in the republic Romans learned to use alliances with neighbors, which provided them with security and |
manpower |
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Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire in |
405 CE |
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the Zealots |
wanted to expel the Romans from Judea |
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