Chapter 6

Question 1

The Second Triumvirate

Answer 1

Lepidus, Mark Antony, Octavian

Question 2

Proscription

Answer 2

Public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state. Proscription eliminates political enemies and replenish the Treasury.

Question 3

Senatorial resistance had been definitively crushed

Answer 3

Battle of Philippi

Question 4

The decisive confrontation of the final battle in the war of the Roman Republic. Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra.

Answer 4

Battle of Actium

Question 5

“Princeps” or “first man” a term from the republic meaning:

Answer 5

Most distinguished senator

Question 6

Augustus fundamentally transformed Rome’s political system into a

Answer 6

Monarchy

Question 7

Augustus’s true source of power

Answer 7

• controlled the state’s treasury
• loyalty of the Army

Question 8

Augustus’s military reforms

Answer 8

• he professionalized the army
• guaranteed soldiers pay and retirement benefits
• he created the Praetorian guard

Question 9

Augustus’s contributions to Roman life. Establishes the first ________ in western civilization

Answer 9

Fire department

Question 10

Distributed grain, gladiatorial shows, prevent the citizenry from protesting and rioting

Answer 10

Bread and circuses

Question 11

Of the Principate the goal

Answer 11

Was stability and order not political freedom

Question 12

Pax Romana

Answer 12

The Roman Peace

Question 13

The Julio-Claudians

Answer 13

• Augustus
• Tiberius
• Caligula
• Claudius
• Nero

Question 14

Insane tyrant

Answer 14

Caligula

Question 15

One legacy from ________ was the precedent he established by bribing the Praetorian guard to back him as the new Emperor

Answer 15

Claudius

Question 16

He had his mother killed in 59

Answer 16

Nero

Question 17

In 60 Nero ____________ scandalizing the Roman elite

Answer 17

Performed as a musician in public

Question 18

Victory showed the elite and the army wished to continue the Principate

Answer 18

Vespasian

Question 19

The worship of the Emperor as a living god and making sacrifices for his households welfare

Answer 19

Imperial Cult

Question 20

First emperor to succeed his biological father

Answer 20

Titus

Question 21

The five good emperors

Answer 21

• Nerva
• Trajan
• Hadrian
• Antoninus Pius
• Marcus Aurelius

Question 22

Period known as

Answer 22

The Golden Age

Question 23

The greatest military expansion in Roman history, attain its maximum territorial extent

Answer 23

Trajan

Question 24

Believed the financial strain to be incurred in keeping on a policy of conquests was something the Roman Empire could not afford

Answer 24

Hadrian

Question 25

His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate

Answer 25

Antoninus Pius

Question 26

The last of the five good emperors, acquired the reputation of a philosopher kind within his lifetime

Answer 26

Marcus Aurelius

Question 27

Messiah

Answer 27

Anointed one

Question 28

The world is ruled by evil powers that would one day be crushed by the Messiah, God's chosen agent after which the righteous would be rewarded and the evil punished

Answer 28

Apocalypticism

Question 29

66-70 Christianity began to separate from Judaism

Answer 29

the Zealot Revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple

Question 30

Christians consider the ________ to be the cornerstone of their faith and the most important event in history

Answer 30

Resurrection of Jesus

Question 31

Reasons for Roman persecution (of Christians as individuals)

Answer 31

- Christian's denial of the gods would invoke their wrath on the empire - Christians were cannibals and sexually promiscuous

Question 32

The biggest argument of the early church was the issue of the

Answer 32

Trinity

Question 33

Doctrine states that the Apostles had appointed the first bishops as their successor, giving these officials the authority that Jesus had originally given to the Apostles

Answer 33

Apostolic Succession

Question 34

Sacraments of the Church

Answer 34

- Baptism - Reconciliation - Holy Eucharist - Marriage - Anointing of the sick