Pre-States Questions—Intermediate Flashcards
Which of the following would not be found in modern Turkey: Sardīs, Tomis, Halicarnāssus, Ephesus?
TOMIS
B1: In what modern country would you find Tomis?
ROMANIA
B2: Of the cities listed in the tossup, which is the modern Turkish city of Bodrum?
HALICARNASSUS
What modern French city did the Romans know as Lugdūnum?
LYONS
B1: What modern French city did the Romans know as Massilia?
MARSEILLE
B2: What modern French city did the Romans know as Nīcaea?
NICE
Who in Roman society would have a sarcina, pugio, cingulum, galea, and caligae?
SOLDIERS
B1 What was a sarcina?
CLOAK/BLANKET
B2 What was the original difference between a cassis and galea?
CASSIS=METAL, GALEA=LEATHER
Clothes signaled a lot in the Roman world. What did it mean if someone was wearing a toga pulla?
THE WEARER WAS IN MOURNING
B1: What did it mean if an individual was wearing a pilleus?
THE WEARER WAS A FREEDMAN
B2: What December holiday was it if you saw people wearing a synthesis in public in daylight?
SĀTURNĀLIA
What did it mean when a Roman had an agnomen ending in -anus?
THEY WERE ADOPTED
B1Name one of the praenomina associated with Mars.
MARCUS, MAMERCUS
B2 Name the other
MARCUS, MAMERCUS
What was the job of a slave known as an ostiarius?
DOORKEEPER
B1 What name was given to the property of a slave?
PECULIUM
B2 What were slaves born in the household, rather than captured called?
VERNAE
What river served as the border between Gallia Cisalpina and Italia?
RUBICON
B1: What river served as the border between the Roman provinces of Dacia and Moesia?
DANUVIUS/DANUBE/ISTER
B2: What river served as the border between the Roman provinces of Syria and
Mesopotamia?
EUPHRATES
In what modern country would you find the towns of Lugdunum, Massilia, Arausio, and Lutetia?
FRANCE
B1 What is the modern name for Lugdunum?
LYONS
B2 What is the modern name for Arausio?
ORANGE
What was the purpose of a pūblicānus in Ancient Rome?
TAX COLLECTOR
B1: What temple in Rome housed the aerārium or treasury?
TEMPLE OF SATURN
B2: What term was given to the imperial treasury, which was separate from the aerārium?
FISCUS
Which of the following was not located at least partially on the Italian peninsula: Via Appia, Via Aemilia, Via Flaminia, Via Egnatia, Via Aurelia?
VIA EGNATIA
B1 What city, site of a battle between Caesar and Pompey in 48 BC was one terminus of the Via Egnatia?
DYRRACHIUM
B2 What city was the other** terminus**?
BYZANTIUM/CONSTANTINOPLE
What was the Romans’ name for the modern city of Cartagena?
CARTAGO NOVA
B1 What do we call the Roman city of Olisipo?
LISBON
B2 What did the Romans call modern day Cadiz?
GADES
