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Spartacus:
1. After reading chapter 7, section 3 and Spartacus, why do you think the Romans feared a slave revolt?
2. Why do you think the slave revolt led by Spartacus was successful for two years?
Cleopatra and Rome:
3. Caesar’s selection of Octavian as his heir was a surprise. Based on your reading of the text, who would
you have expected Caesar to have chosen to take his name and fortune?
4. Why did Ptolemy XIII present Caesar with the decapitated head of Pompey?
5. If your Great-Uncle that you only met one time left you millions of dollars, property, and fame, what
would you do?
Caesar Augustus:
6. How did Caesar Augustus and his allies raise money without imposing higher taxes on the Roman people?
7. How was Octavian’s (Caesar Augustus) relationship with the senate different from that of Julius Caesar’s?
Use facts from the article to defend your answer.
8. What do you think Caesar Augustus meant when he said, “I left Rome a city of Marble, though I found a
city of bricks?”
The Roman Empire after the Caesar Augustus:
9. Why do you think the people of Rome tolerated Nero for as long as they did?
10. What is Trajan most famous for under his rule of the Roman Empire?
11. Why did some historians describe the Mediterranean Sea as a “Roman lake?”
12. Why did Hadrian have a wall built across northern England?