QUIZ 2

Question 1

Gaius Marius

Answer 1

Election of Gaius Marius in c. 157-86 BC to the consulship in 107 BC
-A “new man”
-He represents change in many ways
-Campaign Rhetoric : Tough soldier vs the Fancy pants aristocrat’s
-Alliance with reformer tribunes
The Marian Shakeup in 107-106 BC
-Reforms to the army. Recruitment from all classes including those without a property. Soldiers receive weapons, armour, and pay

Marius was elected consul 5 years in a row.
The extreme popularity of Marius leads to imbalance of power.
Marius and Sulla were Roman commanders in the Social War
- Marius flees Rome after Sulla came with his army in 88 BC , Caputured Rome in 87 BC and kills enemies. Marius has a 7th consulship and dies soon after.

Question 2

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Answer 2

C. 138-78 BC
Marius’ Quastor
-Was a patrician/noble

-In 106 BC, the end of the Jugurthine War under Marius

-The betrayal of Jugurtha to Sulla in 106 BC
-Monument built in Rome of this moment
-in 88 BC, Sulla elected consul and given command In an eastern Mediterranean War
-Violence in the city, so Sulla marches to Rome in 88 BC and captures the city with his army. He had power
-Marius flees
- Enemies of Sulla are public enemies
- Sulla wins the Civil War quite brutally and leads a bloody regime.
- Marius comes back 87 BC and captures Rome.

Question 3

The Pyrrhic War

Answer 3

280-275 BC

Question 4

Romulus and Remus

Answer 4

Brothers
Father could have been Mars
A she wolf raised them
Remus is Murdered
Rome is founded

Question 5

Polybius

Answer 5

Polybius is a Greek Historian taken hostage to Rome
Wrote history in 160-120 BC
History begins with First Punic War in 264 BC

Question 6

Gaius Julius Caesar

Question 7

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus

Answer 7

Lived c. 165-133 BC

• elected as Tribune of the Plebs in 133 BC and introduced land reform
• 133 BC : The tribunate and violent death of Tiberius Gracchus

This unleashed the ́power of the tribunate of the plebeians

-Proposed land reform where the there was a set maximum amount of land someone can own. Redistribution of public land to poorer Roman’s. Opposition of many senators to this proposal.

Began the civil violence in Rome

Question 8

Gaius Sempronius Gracchus

Answer 8

121 BC : Violent death mirroring his older brother

• Tribune of the plebs in 123 BC
• Introduced a more comprehensive set of Reforms. Land Reforms, subsidy of grain to poorer Romans, Equipment given to soldiers.
• Success of slme of his measures
  -Declared Enemy of State
• killed in 122 BC

Question 9

The First Punic War

Answer 9

Began in 264-241 BC
OVER SICILY
Romans ally with Syracuse against Carthage