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The main issue in the Struggle of the Orders was the

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plebeians' efforts to obtain recognition of their rights

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Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to death because

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he was concerned about maintaining social order

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The challenge of feeding Rome's large population was solved during its "golden age" by

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providing free bread, olive oil and wine to the population

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the Carthaginian general who brought the Second Punic War to Rome was

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Hannibal

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The city of Carthage was founded by what culture in the eighth century BCE?

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Phoenicia

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In addition to war, mars was also the god of

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farmland

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In the Roman Empire, slavery

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became more widespread as the empire grew

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In the civil war that followed the end of the first triumvirate, who did the Senate support?

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Pompey

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The first Punic War ended with a Roman victory and the creation of Rome's first

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navy

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As dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar

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enacted a series of basic reforms throughout the empire.

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According to tradition, in 509 BCE the Romans expelled the Etruscans following

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the rape of a Roman women by an Etruscan king

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Some Roman military losses were blamed on the cult of what god or goddess?

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Vesta

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According to the Romans creation myth, Romulus ruled Rome with the assistance of

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a senate

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The Romans referred to the native people of northern and eastern Europe as

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barbarians

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The Etruscans had a non-Indo-European language but borrowed there writing system from

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Greece

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Augustus established himself as princeps civitatis, or

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first citizen of the state

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One of the most important improvements in urban planning in the second century CE was the creation of

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hundreds of miles of aqueducts powered by gravity

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Romans borrowed many elements of culture from other civilizations, including baths from

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Greece

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in the Etruscan culture, the fasces symbol was used to signify

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the king's power

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In tradition Roman families, women

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could inherit and own property

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In Roman families the paterfamilias was the

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oldest dominant male, who had near absolute power.

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The term "latifundia" refers to

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huge agricultural estates

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Who or what did militant Jews believe would come and destroy he Roman Empire?

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The Messiah

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Pagan Romans particularly objected to what early Christian practice?

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The Lord's last Supper ritual

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Before the Romans controlled italy, what other civilization built cities in Southern Italy and Sicily?

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Greece

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When the Romans conquered lands and created provinces, they placed whom in charge?

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Ex-consuls

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The emperor Constantine

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supported Christianity

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Roman religion was largely concerned with

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ritual

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the Roman general who won a momentous battle in 202 BCE near the town of Zama was

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Scipio Africanus

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In the third century BCE the main challenge to Roman control of the Mediteranean came from

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Carthage

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During to Struggle of the Orders, the Plebeians forced political concessions through

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a general strike of soldiers

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Paul of Tarsus believed that

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Christ's teachings should be proclaimed to all

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The villages that became Rome were located on what river?

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Tiber

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In the early republic, Roman society was divided into

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Romans and non-Romans

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The main feature of the reform program proposed by tiberius Gracchus was the

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distribution of public land to poor Romans

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The stone Tower in Afghanistan was important as

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the site where Chinese and Parthian merchants exchanged goods

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The most significant political change by Diocletian was his

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division of the Roman Empire into two parts

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The role of middlemen in the trade along the Silk Road between the Romans and the Chinese was played by

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parthians

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According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BCE by

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Romulus and Remus

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During its "golden age" Roman expansion in continental Europe was led by

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retired soldiers

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Under Augustus, women could be freed from male guardianship if they

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had a certain number of children

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Gaius Marius recruited landless men to serve in the army by promising them what in payment?

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land

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One result of the Struggle of the Orders was the creation of a law code that made all

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all citizens, plebeians and patrician, equal before the law

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Roma et Augustus refers to the

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cult of the emperor and the state

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In the early republic, political power and military leadership was controlled by

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patricians

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After defeating Carthage in the Second Punic War, Romen conquered

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Greece and Macedonia

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What did Romans build in conquered areas to help stabilize their rule and increase communication

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roads

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One of Augustus's reforms was to transform the army into

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a permanent standing army

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An important difference between the political system of the Romans and the Greeks was

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Rome extended citizenship to its conquered people, while the Greeks did not

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Augustus ended the age of civil wars in the empire with his victory at the

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Battle of Actium

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During the republic, the Roman Senate

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advised officials and consuls

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According to Romulus and Remus myth, the Romans were descended from

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gods

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Hannibal failed to win the Second Punic War in part because

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he lacked food and supplies for his troops

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The forum of Rome was, under the Etruscan kings, originally a

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cemetery

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The historical documentation of the life of Jesus comes from

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gospels written many decades after his death

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Other than Greeks, the first people to build cities in Italy were

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Etruscans

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Early in the republic Romans learned to use alliances with neighbors, which provided them with security and

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manpower

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Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire in

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405 CE

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the Zealots

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wanted to expel the Romans from Judea

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