Chapter5️⃣

Question 1

List three titles or names by which Octavian was called.

Answer 1

Augustus
Caesar
First citizen

Question 2

What did Octavian institute within the empire in order to provide
for fairer taxing of provinces? How often did he order this to take place?

Answer 2

Census

Every 14 years

Question 3

How did many of the self-seeking, corrupt emperors of the late empire win the favor of the people?

Answer 3

Free grain and amusement

Question 4

What culture greatly influenced Roman culture?

Answer 4

Greek

Question 5

Who was called the “Homer of Rome”?

Answer 5

Virgil

Question 6

What city was covered by the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius and not rediscovered until the eighteenth century?

Answer 6

Pompeii

Question 7

What was the name of the theory that stated that the earth was the center of the universe? Who developed this theory?

Answer 7

Geocentric, Ptolemy

Question 8

Who was a leading Stoic philosopher of the Roman Empire and also served as tutor to an emperor? Who was his famous pupil?

Answer 8

Seneca, Nero

Question 9

What were the centers of worship called for the Jews who were scattered abroad?

Answer 9

Synagogues

Question 10

Why did the Jewish religious leaders reject Jesus as their Messiah?

Answer 10

He publicly stated that they were sinners who needed to repent in order to be right with God

Question 11

According to the apostle Paul, what is the gospel?

Answer 11

1 cor. 15:1;3-4 ; Christ died for our sins, he was buried, and rose again on the third day

Question 12

What two events greatly aided the spread of Christianity beyond its Jewish cradle?

Answer 12

The conversion of Paul

Roman destruction of Jerusalem

Question 13

What emperor made Christianity a legal religion in the empire?
What emperor made Christianity the official religion of the empire?

Answer 13

Legal- Constantine

Forced- theodouce 1

Question 14

What heresy challenged the deity of Christ? At what council in 325 was the truth of Christ’s deity affirmed?

Answer 14

Arianism

Council of Nicea

Question 15

What were the pastor/bishops of the most important cities called?
List these five cities.

Answer 15

Patriarchs 
Antioch 
Constantinople 
Jerusalem 
Alexandria 
Rome

Question 16

List three economic problems troubling Rome in the late days of the empire.

Answer 16

Decline and revenue of the government
Inflation
Increased tax burden on the people

Question 17

What emperor sought to solve the political problems of the empire by dividing the empire into four administrative divisions called prefectures?

Answer 17

Diocletian

Question 18

What emperor divided the empire between his two sons, leading to the division of the Roman Empire into two separate empires?

Answer 18

Theodoucious 1

Question 19

What did the Romans call the Germanic peoples who began to settle along the borders of the empire and threatened the security of the empire?

Answer 19

Barbarians

Question 20

In what year did the western Roman Empire collapse, when a non- Roman was placed on the imperial throne?

Answer 20

AD 476

Question 21

List four ways Octavian sought to improve Roman government and society.

Answer 21

Choose government officials based of ability rather on class
Created post offices, police, and fire service
Ordered a census to give fair taxation
Encouraged morality

Question 22

For each of the following names, list the person’s occupation and a brief
statement of his achievement: Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Plutarch, Galen. (Include
any titles of important works they wrote.)

Answer 22

Cicero- political, greatest orior of day, master of Latin prose
Virgil- poet, homer of Rome
Livy- historian, wrote 142 volume of history of Rome
Plutarch- writer, wrote parallel lines of illustrious Greeks and Romans
Galen- physician, complied a medical encyclopedia

Question 23

List two reasons why the Romans persecuted Christians.

Answer 23

They considered them as social misfits

They feared rapid growth of church

Question 24

List three reasons for Rome’s decline.

Answer 24

Political disorder
Moral decay
Economic trouble

Question 25

What was the period of peace in the Mediterranean world lasting from 31 BC to AD 180 called?

Answer 25

Pax Romana