Rome, City-State to Empire

Question 1

Etruscan writing has been deciphered.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Former farmer-soldiers that moved into Rome to try and find work became part of the _________.

Accepted Answer

Proletariat

Question 3

Commoners called ____________ made up 90% of the population of Rome.

Accepted Answer

Plebeians

Question 4

Chief officers of the plebeians, called ____,were chosen to represent commoners in the Senate.

Accepted Answer

Tribunes

Question 5

The religious convictions of the Romans centered on duty to ____.

Accepted Answer

A & B

Question 6

Roman slavery was harsher than the Greek slavery had been.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Antony fell in love with Cleopatra of Egypt.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Executive power in Rome was held by censors.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

______ were towns and their surrounding countryside (like a modern-day county).

Accepted Answer

Municipia

Question 10

What does the title "princeps" mean?

Accepted Answer

First citizen

Question 11

The Roman people focused on the “here and now.”

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Roman genius came about in the field of __________.

Accepted Answer

A & B

Question 13

Caesar was assassinated by Greek senators.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

The Carthaginians fought the Greeks inItaly until ___________.

Accepted Answer

The Romans conquered both

Question 15

Italian people developed farming villages but were far behind the people of the ___.

Accepted Answer

Middle East

Question 16

Permanent military commanders and generals in the conquered Roman territories were called ___.

Accepted Answer

Proconsuls

Question 17

The Roman law code was called sui juris.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

What was the "power of the father?"

Accepted Answer

patria potestas

Question 19

During the ____ war, Rome took Sicily and Sardinia, but it had a harder time with Carthage.

Accepted Answer

First Punic War

Question 20

What does triumvirate mean?

Accepted Answer

Rule of three

Question 21

The Etruscans transformed Italy into a prosperous and commercially advancedcivilization.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

____ were tax collectors that also supervised the conduct and morals of the senators.

Accepted Answer

Censors

Question 23

After defeating Carthage, the Romans conquered the Greek Hellenistic Kingdoms.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The male upper-class children had much attention devoted to their education.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Octavian defeated Antony at the Battle of Actium.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The collapse of the Roman government was brought about by the general and politician ____.

Accepted Answer

Julius Caesar

Question 27

The Pax Romana was the peace that resulted from the Roman unification of Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Where did Phoenician influence in Rome come from?

Accepted Answer

Carthage

Question 29

Roman Stoics accepted external prescriptions for morality.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 30

The earliest Italians are more of a ______ than Greece or the Greeks were.

Accepted Answer

mystery

Question 31

What does the title "Augustus" mean?

Accepted Answer

Revered one

Question 32

In the long run, the ______________ had a larger impact on Rome than the Etruscans did.

Accepted Answer

Greeks

Question 33

Why was jus gentium significant?

Accepted Answer

Therights of citizens and noncitizens were protected

Question 34

Rome is located down the western coast of the ____ peninsula.

Accepted Answer

Italian

Question 35

These people were colonists-turned-rulers: .

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 36

___ had equal power and could veto (shoot down) each other’s decisions.

Accepted Answer

Consuls

Question 37

Pictorial records left by the Etruscans make it clear that the Romans got what from them?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 38

When the last Etruscan king fell in Rome,the city became a _______—astate without a monarch.

Accepted Answer

res publica

Question 39

Which of the following were in the Second Triumvirate?

Accepted Answer

Antony

Question 40

The Roman senate was composed of the upper class, called ______.

Accepted Answer

Patricians

Question 41

The Romans were unsuccessful in creating a single, unified vision of what life was about.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 42

The Carthaginian leader _____ led an invasion of Italy.

Accepted Answer

Hannibal

Question 43

Sui juris mean "of his own law."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

After defeating Gaul, Caesar made himself a _________.

Accepted Answer

dictator

Question 45

The Romans defeated the Carthaginians at the Battle of _____.

Accepted Answer

Zama

Question 46

Under Augustus, successors were chosen via heredity and designation from the previous ruler.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

Etruscans ruled over the Roman people because of their superior weaponry and organization.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

What were the three main principles of Roman law?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 49

Conquered peoples by the Roman military became ____.

Accepted Answer

Slaves

Question 50

Which is an existing Roman structure?

Accepted Answer

A & B

Question 51

The Greatest Roman god was _____.

Accepted Answer

Jupiter

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