Deck 11: Crisis, Recovery, and the Creation of the Principate 150-21 BCE

Question 1

What were the three main responsibilities of a provincial governor?

A)The administration of justice
B)Military defense
C)Establish a centralized office of provincial administration
D)Collect taxes

Answer 1

A,B,D

Question 2

Locally hired tax collectors were known as _______.

A)dispares
B)staticuli
C)publicani
D)incogniti

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Under Tiberius Gracchus, Senators increasingly looked out for their own self-interest. In doing so, they split into what two camps based on their preferred methods for doing so?

A)optimates
B)revoluti
C)frigiduli
D)populares

Answer 3

A,D

Question 4

When _______ occupied the Aventine Hill, the Senate responded by passing the Senatus consultum ultimum, or "Last Decree of the Senate."

A)Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus
B)Tiberius Gracchus
C)Gaius Marius
D)Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius

Question 5

Who created the Roman volunteer army?

A)Lucius Cornelius Sulla
B)Tiberius Gracchus
C)Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus
D)Gaius Marius

Question 6

The year 90 BCE saw a massive revolt of Rome's Italian allies that triggered the so-called _______.

A)Conflict of the Nations
B)Social War
C)"Last Decree of the Senate"
D)Creation of the first volunteer army at Rome

Question 7

Which of the following seized on unhappiness with Roman provincial administration to lead a major war against Rome?

A)Mithridates VI
B)Cornelius Cinna
C)Darius I
D)Jugurtha

Question 8

Who published Proscriptions in order to kill his enemies and reward his soldiers?

A)Spartacus
B)Crassus
C)Pompey
D)Sulla

Question 9

Large senatorial estates were known as _______.

A)equites
B)remoramina
C)retinaculae
D)latifundia

Question 10

Which of the following earned the nickname Adulescens carnifex ("The Teenage Butcher") in his youth?

A)Crassus
B)Pompey
C)Julius Caesar
D)Sulla

Question 11

Whom did Cicero, when he was Consul, accuse of plotting to overthrow the state?

A)Pompey
B)Catiline
C)Marius
D)Julius Caesar

Question 12

What charismatic leader united the Gauls in a great revolt against Caesar and the Romans in 52 BCE?

A)Ctesiphon
B)Ariovistus
C)Vercingetorix
D)Philip II Philoromaeus

Question 13

Reportedly saying, "The dice are cast," Caesar crossed the _______ with his army in 49 BCE.

A)Pyrenees Mountains
B)Alps
C)Nile Delta
D)Rubicon River

Question 14

Whom did Julius Caesar adopt in his will?

A)Gaius Octavius
B)Mark Antony
C)Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
D)Caesarion

Question 15

In 31 BCE the forces of Octavian faced off against Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of _______.

A)Zela
B)Pharsalus
C)Actium
D)Philippi

Question 16

The honorary title Augustus, conferred on Octavian by the Senate, means something like _______.

A)"The conqueror"
B)"The one who is revered"
C)"The one who brought peace"
D)"The strong"

Question 17

Which of the following are among the powers that Augustus gathered to himself in 21 BCE and the years thereafter?

A)The power to appoint the two Consuls
B)Maximus
C)Greater proconsular imperium
D)The tribunician power

Question 18

Which historian wrote accounts of the War against Jugurtha and the Conspiracy of Catiline?

A)Sallust
B)Varro
C)Livy
D)Lucretius

Question 19

After which battle on this map did Caesar issue his famous words "veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")?

A)Ilerda (49 BCE)
B)Zela (47 BCE)
C)Alesia (52 BCE)
D)Alexandria (47 BCE)

Question 20

This famous Roman was nicknamed Dives ("the Rich") and brought an end to the slave revolt sparked by Spartacus. Who is he?

A)Julius Caesar
B)Pompey
C)Crassus
D)Lucius Cornelius Sulla