Deck 6: Rome and the Barbarians

Question 1

Which of these dominated northern Italy prior to 500 B.C.E.?

A) Greeks
B) Celts
C) Romans
D) Etruscans

Answer 1

Etruscans

Question 2

Romans elected ________ to rule for six-month terms.

A) dictators
B) praetors
C) the pontifex maximus
D) patrons

Answer 2

dictators

Question 3

The power of patria potestas was held by ________.

A) dictators
B) senators
C) foreigners
D) fathers

Answer 3

fathers

Question 4

Livy was a prominent Roman ________.

A) poet
B) general
C) statesman
D) historian

Question 5

Which of these men ruled Rome in the second century C.E.and is best known for the wall he built in Britain?

A) Nero
B) Hadrian
C) Augustus
D) Justinian

Question 6

Roman praetors had primarily ________ functions.

A) judicial
B) commercial
C) military
D) religious

Question 7

Which of these were large Roman rural estates?

A) paterfamilias
B) pontifex maximus
C) latifundia
D) themes

Question 8

Which of these were elected as Roman administrators?

A) plebeians
B) patricians
C) magistrates
D) clients

Question 9

The revolt of ________ from 73 to 71 B.C.E.was led by Spartacus.

A) Italians
B) slaves
C) Celts
D) plebeians

Question 10

Octavian is more generally known by the title ________.

A) Caesar
B) princeps
C) Augustus
D) rex

Question 11

The Meditations were written by ________.

A) Marcus Aurelius
B) Pliny the Elder
C) Cybele
D) Constantine

Question 12

Which of these invaded and sacked Rome in 390 B.C.E.?

A) Etruscans
B) Celts
C) Latins
D) Visigoths

Question 13

The author of the Aeneid was ________.

A) Virgil
B) Marcus Tullius Cicero
C) Pliny the Elder
D) Zeno

Question 14

The Punic Wars were fought between Rome and ________.

A) Greece
B) Carthage
C) Egypt
D) Gaul

Question 15

Which of these became the center of a popular mystery religion in the Roman Empire?

A) Zeus
B) Seth
C) Isis
D) Venus

Question 16

Which of these was a prominent Visigothic ruler?

A) Attila
B) Odoacer
C) Alaric
D) Servius Tullius

Question 17

Jesus of Nazareth was the founder of ________.

A) Judaism
B) Christianity
C) Mithraism
D) Stoicism

Question 18

Roman patrons were usually ________.

A) patricians
B) plebeians
C) generals
D) merchants

Question 19

Which of these ruled as the Roman emperor in the third century?

A) Justinian
B) Augustus
C) Scipio
D) Diocletian

Question 20

The Hallstatt culture was an early ________ culture.

A) Celtic
B) Etruscan
C) Latin
D) Germanic

Question 21

The Byzantine Empire lasted about ________ years after the fall of Rome itself.

A) 200
B) 500
C) 800
D) 1000

Question 22

Which of these was a Roman emperor of the sixth century,most famous for his reorganization of the eastern Roman Empire?

A) Justinian
B) Julius Caesar
C) Pompey the Great
D) Antiochus III

Question 23

Ultimately,the Vandals settled in ________.

A) Spain
B) northern Africa
C) France
D) Britain

Question 24

The outcome of the reforms proposed by the Gracchi underlined ________.

A) Rome's growing militarization
B) the power of the Roman Senate
C) the disintegration of the patron-client relationship
D) how weak Rome had become

Question 25

Edward Gibbon is most famous for his analysis of Rome's ________.

A) religions
B) "decline and fall"
C) social structure
D) early republic

Question 26

Which of these best explains the acceptance of Augustus as the virtual king of Rome?

A) the threat of foreign invasions
B) Augustus' background as a plebeian
C) a long period of civil war
D) the early history of the Roman republic

Question 27

Which of these gained in power and autonomy with the expansion of the Roman Empire?

A) senators
B) tribunes
C) generals
D) priests

Question 28

The Roman republic developed as an alternative to ________.

A) monarchy
B) dictators
C) economic decline
D) civil war

Question 29

Which of these helped to make the Roman Empire a hegemonic empire?

A) the power of the Roman military
B) the patron-client relationship
C) the rise of Christianity
D) the expansion of citizenship

Question 30

The Punic Wars made Rome a(n)________ power.

A) Italian
B) global
C) Mediterranean
D) European

Question 31

The Pax Romana depended on ________.

A) a strong central government
B) border defenses
C) thriving commerce
D) suppressing slave revolts

Question 32

The death of Alexander created an opportunity for ________.

A) his heirs
B) the Roman Empire
C) the rise of Macedon
D) his generals

Question 33

Why did the Roman Republic have two consuls?

A) so that one consul could go to war
B) to limit consular power
C) to reserve ultimate power for the plebeians
D) for Rome's defense

Question 34

The Silk Road can be said to have reached from China to ________.

A) the heart of the Roman Empire
B) India
C) Central Asia
D) the fringes of the Roman Empire

Question 35

The death of Caesar indicates that his rule had threatened the power of Rome's ________.

A) senators
B) triumvirate
C) merchants
D) army

Question 36

In the Byzantine Empire,themes were ________.

A) provincial rulers
B) administrative districts
C) minor religious sects
D) poets

Question 37

The Struggle of the Orders can be characterized as a struggle for ________.

A) economic power
B) religious freedom
C) political equality
D) personal freedom

Question 38

The period of Augustus' rule can be characterized as ________.

A) both politically and culturally revolutionary
B) politically innovative but socially conservative
C) socially progressive and politically innovative
D) revolutionary in all spheres of life

Question 39

Particularly in the western Roman Empire,urbanization was most closely related to ________.

A) the arts
B) political administration
C) religious centers
D) the export economy

Question 40

The ruins of Pompeii are unusual because ________.

A) they capture the city at a moment of time
B) Pompeii was the Roman capital
C) reveal information about the lower classes that is otherwise hard to discover
D) the ruins tell us a great deal about early Rome

Question 41

Mystery religions appealed to human ________.

A) intellect
B) emotions
C) skeptics
D) prejudices

Question 42

The mosaics "Justinian and Theodora" show that Byzantine emperors ruled based on both ________ support.

A) military and religious
B) commercial and spiritual
C) cultural and military
D) patrician and plebeian

Question 43

Arguably,the most important goal of the Roman political system was ________.

A) equity
B) human rights
C) expansion
D) stability

Question 44

Did Rome want an empire? Answer this question by considering the forces that drove Rome's acquisition of a massive empire.

Question 45

Consider the difference between an empire based on hegemony and one based on dominance,using the Roman Empire as an example.

Question 46

Consider the principal institutions of the Roman Empire.How did they reflect Roman history and the values of the Roman people?

Question 47

The triumvirates reflected above all the growing power of the________ in Roman affairs.

A) Senate
B) military
C) export trade
D) plebeians

Question 48

Like Augustus,Justinian was responsible for ________ in the Roman Empire.

A) civil war
B) religious innovation
C) ending invasions
D) extensive political reorganization

Question 49

The spread of Stoicism in the Roman Empire highlights what major influence on Roman culture?

A) Christian
B) Jewish
C) mystery religion
D) Greek

Question 50

Looking at the map "The coming of the barbarians," which of these modern regions was most vulnerable to Germanic invasions?

A) northern Africa
B) the eastern Mediterranean
C) Greece
D) western Europe

Question 51

The iconoclastic controversy reflects the influence of ________ in the Byzantine world.

A) Christianity
B) Judaism
C) Islam
D) Mithraism

Question 52

The hiatus between invasions of the Roman Empire in 390 B.C.E.and the fourth century C.E.is best explained by the ________.

A) end of the Celts
B) disintegration of Germanic kingdoms
C) growth of Roman power
D) economic power of Rome

Question 53

Compare the fates of the eastern and western Roman empires.Why did they differ so much?

Question 54

The map "Rome's successors" shows that the successor states in the western Roman Empire were formed based on ________.

A) ethnicity
B) former Roman provincial organization
C) geographic divisions
D) river valleys

Question 55

Compare the Roman Empire to Alexander's empire.Why did they have such different fates?