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

Question 1

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

A) tithe
B) tributum
C) publican
D) Quaestio de repetundis

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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.

A) Scipio Nasica
B) Tiberius Gracchus
C) Fulvius Flaccus
D) Spurius Postumius

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

A) "tilled land"
B) "copper"
C) "herd of cows"
D) "tin"

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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

A) administration of justice
B) oversight of military defense
C) providing a local security force for each town
D) tax collection

Question 5

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

A) Gaius' declaration that he would not resort to violence to defend himself
B) reports from spies on the Aventine Hill
C) auspices taken by the Pontifex Maximus
D) the "Last Recommendation of the Senate"

Question 6

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

A) Epicureanism
B) Stoicism
C) Pythagoreanism
D) Neoplatonism

Question 7

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

A) imports
B) warfare
C) exports
D) public construction projects

Question 8

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

A) Made it illegal for an ex-consul to be both a Senator and a Proconsul
B) Transferred control of the Extortion Court from the Senate to the equestrians
C) Forbade Senators from owning more than 500 jugera of land in Italy
D) Expanded the number of seats in the Senate

Question 9

Roman provinces were governed by ______ and ______.

A) Tribunes, Praetors
B) a member of the patrician class, a member of the plebeian class
C) Aediles, Senators over 60 years of age
D) Proconsuls, Praetors

Question 10

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.

A) Ancona
B) Tarentum
C) Capua
D) Fregellae

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

People could be initiated into more than one mystery cult.

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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