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Which of the following statements about marriage best captures the realities for Roman woman by the first century B.C.E.?

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They remained legally the property of their fathers.

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The college of augurs existed to

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interperet auspices signs sent to humans by the gods

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Which of the following statements best applies to Roman education:

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The wealthy classes wanted training in Greek and mastery of rhetoric, or persuasive public speaking, for their children.

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The second Punic War saw Carthage

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carry a land war to Rome by crossing the Alps

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The people to the north of Rome who apparently ruled Rome for a century and heavily influenced Roman urban culture were the

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Etruscans

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Like most of the great Roman writers of the first century B.C.E., Catullus was from Rome.

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False

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The Roman senator who led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage was

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Cato

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The reforms of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus

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resulted in further instability and violence as they polarized various social groups

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The immediate cause of the first Punic war was

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Rome sending an army to Sicily

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Because the Romans frequently adopted the gods of the peoples they came into contact with, and since, by the Republic, Greece was a major influence upon Rome, it can be argued that the Romans and the Greeks had essentially the same "Greco-Roman" religion.

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True

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Which one of the following innovations enabled Romans to erect giant amphitheaters, public baths, and high-rise tenement buildings?

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concrete

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By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar showed that he

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was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate.

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Rome set a precedent for treating it's vanquished foes after forming the Roman Confederation by

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offering its most favored allies full Roman citizenship, thus giving them a steak in successful Roman expansion.

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The result of the third Punic war was

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The complete destruction and subjugation of Carthage

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For the Romans, ius gentium was that part of the law that applied to both Romans and foreigners, or was the law of nations and not just for the Romans.

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True

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The Struggle of the Orders

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was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise.

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The First Triumvirate was a political alliance between Crassus, Julius Caesar, and

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Pompey

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Imperium was

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the power to command Roman citizens

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As a result of the first Punic war

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the Carthaginians were forced to withdraw from Sicily and pay an indemnity to Rome.

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Which Roman writer is most closely associated with the development of a new style of poetry at the end of the Roman Republic?

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Catullus

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Which of the following is not true of the centuriate assembly?

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It rivaled the Roman state for power.

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In Rome, the male family head could

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all of the above

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Optimates in the late Roman Republic wanted to maintain the privileges of the

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nobiles.

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Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian in 31 B.C.E. at the Battle of Actium, thus symbolically ending the Roman Republic.

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True

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An early even in the Struggle of the Orders occurred in 445 B.C.E., when the Canuleian law allowed patricians and plebeians to intermarry.

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True

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By the later Republic, Roman slaves

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often worked on the Roman latifundia

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Cicero

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all of the above

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Roman traditionally associated the rape of Lucretia and its alleged consequences with

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all of the above

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The paterfamilias in Roman society was

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the male head of the family.

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The Roman Senate

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could only advise the magistrates in legal matters.

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In defeating the Greek city-states in southern Italy, Rome

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had to fight the soldiers of King Purrhus, sent against them by the Greeks.

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The head of the Roman religious observances was

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the pontifex maximus

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For the Romans, Italy's geography

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made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend.

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Rome was established in the first millennium B.C.E. on the

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plain of Latium

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Tiberius Gracchus ran for tribune in 133 B.C.E. on a program of

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providing land to landless farmers

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At the Battle of Cannae the Romans

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suffered a devastating defeat by Hannibal

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The main achievement of the Hortensian law in Roman constitutional history was its

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ruling that all plebiscita passed by the plebeian assembly had the force of law and were binding even upon the patricians

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Livy's account of Cincinnatus

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demonstrates how the virtues of duty and simplicity in Rome's leaders enabled Rome to survive in difficult times

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What was the significance of Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War?

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He expelled the Carthaginians from Spain and later won the decisive Battle of Zama

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The Second Punic War marked Rome's only serious defeat during the Republic.

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False

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Which of the following statements about Roman names is incorrect?

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The nomen was the hereditary family name

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After Rome crushed the Latin states in the fourth century B.C.E., it waged a 50-year struggle against

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the Samnites

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During the Third Punic War against Carthage, the Romans made Egypt a Roman province.

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False

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After imposed retirement from Roman politics, Cicero took up writing

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philosophical treatises

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The Roman Dictator

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a and b

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The Carthaginians originated from

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Phoenician Tyre.

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It can best be said that Roman imperial expansion was

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highly opportunistic, responding to unanticipated military threats and possibilities for glory.

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Julius Caesar

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led military commands in Spain and especially Gaul that enhanced his popularity.

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