Exam 5: The Impact of Expansion on Rome in the Second Century BCE

Which of the following was not one of the main responsibilities of a provincial governor?

The philosophical school of ______ so alarmed many influential Romans that its teachers were expelled from Rome in the second century BCE.

The Latin town of ______ was destroyed when, upset at the defeat of a bill that would've granted Rome's Italian allies citizenship, it attempted to withdraw from its alliance with Rome.

Unlike his older brother Tiberius, Gaius Gracchus sided with the political interests of the Senate.

Roman provinces were governed by ______ and ______.

In the ______ system of Roman tax collection, farmers paid one-tenth of their annual crop in taxes.

The law that Gaius Gracchus characterized as "a dagger in the side of the Senate" did what?

Gladiatorial contests originated in Greece, and were yet another Roman borrowing from Greek culture.

People could be initiated into more than one mystery cult.

The death of ______ made clear the willingness of many senators to violate the principle of sacrosanctitas in pursuit of their individual political and financial interests.

One of the major failures of the Roman Republic was that it never effectively integrated the provinces and their inhabitants into Roman government and society.

The Latin word for money, pecunia, derives from pecus, which means ______.

When Gaius Gracchus occupied the Aventine Hill, the Consul Opimius was emboldened by ______ to raise an armed band and attack him.

Each Roman province was organized around a central administrative office that handled all official business for the inhabitants of that province.

Which of the following was most responsible for the need for an effective monetary system at Rome?