Chapter 5 - Rome And China

Question 1

Praetors

Answer 1

Two senior Roman judges; executive authority when consuls were away

Question 2

Senate

Answer 2

Leading council of Roman Republic; about 300 men served for life

Question 3

Centuriate assembly

Answer 3

Chief popular assembly; passed laws and elected chief magistrates

Question 4

Council of the plebs

Answer 4

Council only for plebeians

Question 5

Patricians

Answer 5

Land owners who became ruling class

Question 6

Plebeians

Answer 6

Class of nonpatrician landowners, craftspeople, merchants, small farmers; no equal rights

Question 7

Tribunes of the plebs

Answer 7

Roman officials who were given power to protect plebeians against arrest by patrician magistrates (494 BC)

Question 8

Latifundia

Answer 8

Large aristocratic estates

Question 9

Dictator

Answer 9

Official granted unlimited power to run the state, usually 6 months

Question 10

Praetorian guard

Answer 10

Military unit that served as personal bodyguards to Roman emperors

Question 11

Pax Romana

Answer 11

Roman peace

Question 12

Good emperors

Answer 12

Five emperors who ruled from 96-180 (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius)

Question 13

Natural law

Answer 13

Set of universal laws based on reason

Question 14

State Confucianism

Answer 14

Integration of Confucian doctrine with Legalist institutions

Question 15

Civil service examination

Answer 15

System of electing bureaucrats on merit by Tang dynasty; contributed to efficient government, upward mobility, cultural uniformity

Question 16

Consuls

Answer 16

Chief executive officers of Roman Republic; two were chosen to administer government and lead army in battle