Isaac's State Cards

Question 1

In terms of numbers killed, what was the worst non-Civil War defeat in Roman history?

Answer 1

Arausio

Question 2

Which of these was the strongest opponent of Cato’s words, “Carthago delenda est”?

Answer 2

P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica

Question 3

Who was Pompey the Great murdered in Egypt due to the influence of?

Answer 3

Pothinus

Question 4

Who proposed to the Senate that C. Iulius Caesar Octavianus be given the name Augustus in 27 BC?

Answer 4

Munatius Plancus

Question 5

Which emperor was not deified after his death?

Answer 5

Vespasian

Question 6

What law(s) opened the consulship to the plebeians in 367 BC?

Answer 6

Leges Liciniae Sextiae

Question 7

Whom did Tiberius Sempronius Longus join at the Trebia River in 218 BC against Hannibal?

Answer 7

P. Cornelius Scipio

Question 8

Who, resenting the small war bonus he was given because of his avarice, tried to block L. Aemilius Paullus’ triumph in 167 BC?

Answer 8

Serv. Sulpicius Galba

Question 9

Spartacus made an agreement with Cilician pirates to do what?

Answer 9

Transport his men to Sicily

Question 10

In 200 BCE, which consul called for the Comitia Centuriata to declare war on Philip V?

Answer 10

P. Sulpicius Galba

Question 11

Which Roman woman conspired to kill her grandson and daughter in the 3rd century CE?

Answer 11

Julia Mamaea

Question 12

Caesarian forces under Curio were defeated in 49 BC by Pompeians led by whom?

Answer 12

Juba

Question 13

Who was the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra?

Answer 13

Selene

Question 14

Who was the Roman general who suppressed the revolt of Bar Kokhba under Hadrian?

Answer 14

Julius Severus

Question 15

Which general conquered Mauretania under Claudius?

Answer 15

Suetonius Paulinus

Question 16

Who was indicted on a charge that he had encouraged M. Livius Drusus in his sympathy for the Italian social cause?

Answer 16

P. Rutilius Rufus

Question 17

In what year was the capital of the empire transferred from Rome to Milan?

Answer 17

293 CE

Question 18

To what province was Cicero exiled in 58 BCE?

Answer 18

Cilicia

Question 19

In 343 BC, Rome formed an alliance with which city?

Answer 19

Capua

Question 20

Which of Antony’s lieutenants captured Jerusalem from the Parthians in 37 and installed Herod as king?

Answer 20

C. Sosius

Question 21

When did Judea become a province?

Answer 21

6 CE

Question 22

Which king drained the salt plains at Ostia and created the fetiales?

Answer 22

Ancus Marcius

Question 23

Where did Hannibal retire to for 4 years before returning to Carthage in 203 BC?

Answer 23

Bruttium

Question 24

In 456, what Suevian commander rebelled in Ravenna and declared himself emperor?

Answer 24

Ricimer

Question 25

Which famous letter-writer wrote letters about the eruption of Vesuvius?

Answer 25

Pliny the Younger

Question 26

When it was originally built in 312 BC, what city was the terminus of the Via Appia?

Answer 26

Capua

Question 27

Vestal vergin married by varius avidus bassian

Answer 27

Aquila severa

Question 28

Tried to rival corbulo but is a bot

Answer 28

L. Carcinoid paetus

Question 29

Dom Dac comms

Answer 29

Oppius saninus(adamklassi( Cornelius fuscus(pp/dead) Tet Jul(tap draw)

Question 30

durham and cumberland

Answer 30

agricola forts