Exam 7: The Roman Empire: a World-State

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the third-century crisis. What were the major reasons for the end of the Pax Romana?

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? jus naturale

Which of the following Roman writers was the son of a freed slave?

The text states that Rome's greatest legacy to the West was

Cicero's statement, "True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and ever lasting...." most directly reflected which philosophy?

The granting of citizenship to nearly all free men in the Empire in 212 B.C. undermined the Roman military because

Which of the following is true of Roman culture during the reign of Augustus?

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Mark the boundaries of the area controlled by the Roman Empire under Augustus.

Like other followers of their philosophy, Roman Stoics believed that

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Use a line to mark the division between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire, and locate and label Constantinople.

Who was the Roman emperor whose Meditations were an eloquent expression of Stoicism?

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Mithraism

The text refers to which of the following as "perhaps the most dangerous sign for the future" of Rome during the Pax Romana?

How did the Roman elite handle the problem of poverty?

Which of the following is NOT true of the Roman population decline?

Plotinus would DISAGREE with which of the following statements?

The greatest Roman defeat since Cannae, the battle of Adrianople, was precipitated most directly by

The Roman Empire was said to have ended when

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Give three reasons why the Roman Empire deserves to be remembered and studied, and support your choices with specific evidence.

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How did the status of slaves and women differ in the Roman Republic and in the Roman Empire?