Which of the following would be a patrician?

A member of an upper class family in Rome.

What was the main theme in Greek dramas, especially in tragedies?

Unhappy endings after the main character struggled against the fates/gods.

Which three people made up the Second Triumvirate to rule Rome during the Roman Republic?

Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus

What was Euclid’s main emphasis towards the Greek society, and to society today as a whole?

Euclid developed the math discipline of geometry.

What was a reason why Julius Caesar was assassinated?

The Roman Senate feared Julius Caesar had even more power than before.

Which three people made up the First Triumvirate to rule Rome during the Roman Republic?

Crassus, Pompey and Julius Caesar

Under Emperor Constantine's rule, he declared that the Roman Empire___________

to follow Christianity its official religion.

Trying to save the empire which was beginning to fall, what major decision came from Roman Emperor Diocletian?

To divide the empire into two parts.

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1
Which of the following would be a patrician?
A soldier who serves for pay in a foreign army.
An ordinary citizen in Rome, often poor.
A slave.
A member of an upper class family in Rome.
2
What was the main theme in Greek dramas, especially in tragedies?
The gods approve of the Spartan way of life.
Humorous plots and happy endings.
Unhappy endings after the main character struggled against the fates/gods.
Humans and the gods are allowed to marry and have children.
3
Which three people made up the Second Triumvirate to rule Rome during the Roman Republic?
Gracchus, Scipio and Crassus
Crassus, Pompey and Julius Caesar
Romulus Augustus, Commodus and Trajan
Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus
4
What was Euclid’s main emphasis towards the Greek society, and to society today as a whole?
Euclid developed the Pythagorean Theorem
Euclid was the main author of Greek comedies.
Euclid developed the math discipline of geometry.
Euclid showed people in the grip of emotions in the statues he created.
5
What was a reason why Julius Caesar was assassinated?
He wouldn't share power with Augustus.
He refused to help the poor.
The Roman Senate feared Julius Caesar had even more power than before.
He was declared emperor for life.
6
Which three people made up the First Triumvirate to rule Rome during the Roman Republic?
Crassus, Pompey and Julius Caesar
Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus
Romulus Augustus, Commodus and Trajan
Gracchus, Scipio and Crassus
7
Which Greek philosopher was put to death due corrupting the young and not worshipping the Greek gods?
Achilles
Plato
Socrates
Pericles
8
Under Emperor Constantine's rule, he declared that the Roman Empire___________
to adopt Greek Mythology and to follow these gods.
to stop following the Twelve Tables.
to be divided into three Hellenistic kingdoms.
to follow Christianity its official religion.
9
The war between Athens and Sparta was known as the ___________.
The Mongolian War
The Trojan War
The Punic Wars
The Peloponnesian War
10
Who was the Ancient Greek we call the “Father of Medicine?”
Aristophanes
Themistocles
Hippocrates
Cleisthenes
11
What was the Pax Romana?
Taxes paid to the Roman emperors.
Roman Peace.
Upper class citizens of Rome given freedoms.
Roman code of laws.
12
Trying to save the empire which was beginning to fall, what major decision came from Roman Emperor Diocletian?
To bring back Julius Caesar’s version of the Roman Republic.
To change the Roman legal system.
To grant freedom to Christians.
To divide the empire into two parts.

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