The Roman Empire

Sulla's legacy and importance was that he employed his personal army in political disputes, leading to _____.

In their struggle with the patricians, Roman plebeians physically left the state and formed popular assemblies.

Executive authority during the Roman Republic was known as imperium and held by the consuls and praetors.

In Roman religion, a right relationship with the gods was achieved by ______ and _________.

Septimius Severus said, "Live in harmony, make the soldiers rich, and don't give a damn for anything else."

_______ set a precedent for its vanquished foes by offering the most favored "allied" peoples full citizenship

Cicero was a great orator and capable lawyer.

Trade and commerce in the Early Empire was more important than agriculture.

Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows were ______.

The paterfamilias in Roman society was the

__________ was a temporary executive and exercised unlimited power for a period of usually six months.

In defeating the ____ in southern Italy, Rome had to fight the soldiers of King Pyrrhus.

Cicero believed in a "concord of the orders."

In the Roman armies in the early Republic, soldiers were enrolled for less than a year.

In the Roman armies in the early Republic, most soldiers were farmers

Trade and commerce in the Early Empire concentrated some industries in certain areas.

The First Triumvirate included _____, _______, and ________.

Early Christianity was molded into a broader religious movement by Paul of Tarsus.

Trade and commerce in the Early Empire stimulated manufacturing.

The result of the _____ was the complete destruction and subjugation of Carthage.

In Rome, the male family head, the paterfamilias, was not allowed to arrange the marriages of offspring.

Among the upper classes of the Early Empire ______ had considerable freedom and independence.

Cicero was a "new man" of the equestrian order.

The _______ originated from Phoenician Tyre.

The Etruscans had begun to decline by 480 B.C.

In Roman schooling, education stressed training in ________ and mastery of rhetoric.

Originally the Roman Senate could only advise the magistrates in legal matters.

After the First Punic War the Carthaginians were forced to leave _____ and pay an indemnity to Rome.

Roman religious practices included a college of priests to carry out rituals correctly.

The immediate cause of the First Punic War was Rome sending an army to Sicily.

The Etruscans "civilized" Rome by turning it into a true city.

The Etruscans adopted alphabetic language from the Greeks before 600 B.C.

The two Roman emperors who notably persecuted the Christian minority were ______ and _______.

As Rome expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as _______ and propraetors.

In Rome, the male family head, the paterfamilias, could never divorce his wife.

Vespasian was the ______ of the Flavian emperors

The Second Punic War saw Carthage carry a land war to Rome by crossing the ______.

The Romans' most noticeable innovations in art and culture were found in _______ and ______.

The "good emperor" Marcus Aurelius was regarded as a philosopher king deeply influenced by the principles of _____.

In the Roman armies in the early Republic, there were four legions, each consisting of 4,000 to 5,000 men.

The Roman Senate under ______ was retained as the chief deliberative body of the Roman state.

The largest Roman innovation in architecture was the use of ______ on a massive scale.

The reforms of ______ resulted in further instability and violence as they polarized various social groups.

The equites were a _______ who appeared in the late Republic.

_______ was/were the first formal codification of Roman law and customs.

By crossing the ________, Caesar showed that he was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate.

The early values of _______ emphasized devotion to the values of humility, charity, and true brotherly love.

The Roman Senator Cato led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage.

In the Roman armies in the early Republic, all soldiers were citizens

_____ led military commands in Spain and especially Gaul that enhanced his popularity.

Roman upper-class women typically had no independent legal rights and property.

The Etruscans settled north of Rome.

______’s conquest of the Italian peninsula by 264 B.C. can be attributed in part to superb diplomacy.

For the Romans, _____ geography made Rome an easy area to defend.

Rome was established in the first millennium B.C. on the plain of ______.

Roman religious practices included the adoption of certain Greek gods like Apollo.

Later in the Republic, slaves often worked on the Roman _____.

In Rome, the male family head, the paterfamilias, could not sell his children.

In Rome, the male family head, the paterfamilias, could put his children to death.

The head of the Roman religious observances was _____.

Cicero was strongly against a balanced government of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

Scipio Africanus pushed the Carthaginians from Spain and later won the decisive Battle of Zama during ____.