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Classical Rome Test Review
1. What is a republic?
2. The early development of Rome was most influenced by whom?
3. Who made up the Roman Senate?
4. Who were the patricians?
5. Who were the plebeians?
6. Why was the city of Rome an idea place to build an empire?
7. List the three reasons why Rome was successful in gaining control of the entire
Italian peninsula
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8. What body of law was one of Rome’s chief gifts to later generations?
9. What are the three main influences that the Roman Law of Nations had on
American criminal law?
10. What was the cause of the First Punic War?
11. What is a triumvirate?
12. Who was part of the first Triumvirate?
13. What was the 100 year period of peace and prosperity called?
14. The Augustan Age has been called what?
15. Who wrote Aeneid?
16. How did the emperor keep the poverty stricken masses pacified?
17. When the poet Juvenal said, “There’s only two things that concern them: Bread
and Circuses,” what was he talking about?
18. What was the population of Rome at its height?
19. Who was the first Roman emperor?
20. Who was Spartacus and what did he do?
21. Who was the first dictator of Rome and how did his reign end?
22. What did Antony and Cleopatra do after being defeated by Octavian?
23. Who were the Vandals?
24. Who were the first invaders to sack Rome?
25. Who was Romulus Augustulus?
26. List the three causes of Rome’s economic collapse, which ultimately contributed
to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
27. What did Diocletian do when he felt the Roman Empire had grown too large for a
single ruler?
28. What were the results of the political and military reforms of Diocletian and
Constantine?
29. How did the economic and social policies of Diocletian and Constantine effect
Rome in the long run?
30. What was insulae?
31. List the three of the jobs for which Greek slaves were wanted.
32. What is the paterfamilias?
33. Describe how attitudes toward women changed over the course of Roman history.
34. Who was the first Christian emperor?
35. What proclaimed official tolerance of Christianity?
36. Under which emperor did Rome adopt Christianity as its official religion?
37. Who were the Jewish priests that favored cooperation with the Romans?
38. Who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule?
39. Explain why Christianity was able to attract so many followers.
40. Three reasons why Rome was an ideal place to build an empire
41. What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
42. List Roman technological advancements
43. What was the name of the three wars that Rome defeated, and then destroyed,
Carthage?
44. What was the purpose of Hadrian’s Wall?
45. What did Augustus’s new political system allowed emperors to choose?
46. What gladiator led as slave revolt in 73 B.C.?
47. Was slavery common in the ancient world?
48. What did Roman persecutions of Christianity do for it?
49. How did the Jewish Essenes group want to deal with the Romans?
50. After the last “good emperor,” Marcus Aurelius, died in A.D. 180, what
followed?