Flashcards on Western Civ Chapter 5
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After imposed retirement from Roman politics, Cicero took up writing
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philosophical treatises.
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Among the dangerous military innovations of Marius threatening the Republic was his
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Recruitment of destitute volunteers who swore an oath of allegiance only to him.
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As Rome expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as
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proconsuls and propraetors.
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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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In Roman household cults, Janus was
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the spirit of the doorway.
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In Rome, the male family head could
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arrange the marriages of all offspring. sell his children. divorce his wife. put his children to death.
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In their struggle with the patricians, Roman plebeians employed which of the following tactics:
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assassination of political opponents the formation of popular assemblies to lobby for more political reforms
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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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Roman legend identifies twin brothers Romulus and Remus as the founders of Rome.
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True
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Roman traditionally associated the rape of Lucretia and its alleged consequences with
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the establishment of the era of the Republic. the model of Roman womanhood and virtue. the end of Rome's control by monarchs. the end of the Etruscan domination of Rome.
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Sulla's legacy and importance was that he
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employed his personal army in political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war.
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The head of the Roman religious observances was
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the pontifex maximus.
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The Latin alphabet was a modification of the Etruscan alphabet.
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true
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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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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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The Roman senator who led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage was
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cato
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Which of the following statements about marriage best captures the realities for Roman women by the first century B.C.E.?
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They remained legally the property of their fathers.
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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 Etruscan alphabet was derived from the
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Greeks
