Quiz February 3rd Flashcards

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Who appoints the dictator?

A

Senatus

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Who is the absolute power in an emergency?

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Dictator

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2
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Who takes census of the citizenry?

A

Censor

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3
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How many lictors do dictators have?

A

24

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Who elects the censor?

A

Centuriata

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How many lictors do censors have?

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What are magistrates who handled financial matters?

A

Quaestor

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Who elects the quaestor?

A

Tributa

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How many lictors do the quaestors have?

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0

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9
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What are the two chief magistrates?

A

Consuls

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Who elects the consuls?

A

Centuriata

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How many lictors do the consuls have?

A

12

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12
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Who are the magistrates that serve as judges?

A

Praetor

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13
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Who elects the praetors?

A

Centuriata

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How many lictors do the praetor have?

A

6

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Who are the magistrates in charge of sewers, roads, bridges, etc.?

A

Aedile

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Who elect the aedile?

A

Tributa (curule)

Plebis (plebeian)

17
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Who were the officials who protected common people from oppression by the aristocracy?

A

Tribune

18
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Who elects the tribune?

A

Plebis

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How many lictors do the tribunes have?

A

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20
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How many quaestors are there?

A

20

21
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How many curule aediles are there?

A

2

22
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How many plebeian aediles are there?

A

2

23
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How many tribunes are there?

A

10

24
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How many praetor are there?

A

6

25
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How many consuls are there?

A

2

26
Q

Write the correct sequence of offices in roman politics, starting with the lowest:

A

Quaestor, aedile/tribune, praetor, consul

27
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What is the sequence of offices in roman politics?

A

Cursus honorum

28
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What is the first confrontation with a Hellenistic army?

A

Pyrrhic war

29
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What is the roman general who used proscription lists to eliminate his opponents?

A

Sulla war

30
Q

Period of roman history from 245 A.U.C. to the time of Augustus

A

Republic

31
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Rome gains control of western Mediterranean

A

2nd Punic war

32
Q

Carthage was destroyed

A

3rd Punic war

33
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Roman general who professionalized the army

A

Marius

34
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Period of roman history that begins ab urbe condita, 753 BC

A

Monarchy

35
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Italians win citizenship in defeat

A

Social war

36
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Period of roman history that begins in the 727th anno ab urbe condita

A

Empire

37
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Rome acquires its first province

A

1st Punic war