Republic: Fall of the Republic (Part 1) Flashcards
In what year did Cicero serve as consul?
63 BC
In what year did Saturninus die?
100 BC
What Latin tribe fights against Sulla at Colline Gate in 82 BC?
Samnites
What consul of 63 BC stopped Catiline from overthrowing the Republic with a series of speeches against him?
Cicero
Who convinces Bocchus, the father of Jugurtha, to betray him to the Romans in 105 BC?
Sulla
What cousin of Tiberius Gracchus led the mob revolt to kill him in 133 BC?
Scipio Nasica
What “final decree” did the Senate pass giving Lucius Opimius power to stop Gaius Gracchus at all costs?
Senatus Consultum Ultimum
Whose assassination precipitated the Social War in 91 BC?
Livius Drusus
In 73 BC, what Thracian slave begins a slave revolt in Capua until it was subdued by Crassus?
Spartacus
Following the Lex Iulia, what did the Lex Plautia Papiria of 89 BC do?
Gave citizens who rebelled during the Social War citizenship
Over what was the Social War fought?
Citizenship for non-Roman Italians
What two men were both novi homines from Arpinum?
Marius & Cicero
In what two years did Pompey & Crassus serve as co-consuls?
70 & 55 BC
What two men served as co-consuls in 55 BC?
Pompey & Crassus
What tribune transfers the command against Mithridates VI from Sulla to Marius in 88 BC?
Sulpicius Rufus
In what year did Catiline try to overthrow the Republic?
63 BC
What title is given to Cicero after he stopped Catiline from overthrowing the Republic in 63 BC?
Pater Patriae
Who flees to the grove of Furina on the Janiculum Hill and committed suicide to avoid persecution from Lucius Opimius?
Gaius Gracchus
Scipio Nasica led the mob to kill what tribune of 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
Who posted lists of people he wanted killed in his stint as dictator following the battle of Colline Gate in 82 BC?
Sulla
In what year was the battle of Aquae Sextiae?
102 BC
Who defeats both the Cimbri and Teutones in battles of 102 and 101 BC?
Gaius Marius
Sulpicius Rufus transfers the command against Mithridates from Sulla to what man in 88 BC?
Marius
What tribune was killed in 100 BC by the forces of Marius?
Saturninus
What longtime enemy of Rome commits suicide at Panticapaeum in 63 BC?
Mithridates VI
Gaius Marius was a novus homo from Arpinum. What is a novus homo?
First member of his family to hold the consulship
At what battle were Servilius Caepio and Mallius Maximus destroyed by the Cimbri and Teutones in 105 BC?
Arausio
What Numidian king is defeated by Marius and Sulla in 105 BC?
Jugurtha
In what year was Marius consul for the last time?
86 BC
At what battle against the Samnites does Sulla solidify his control of Rome?
Colline Gate
What man puts down Spartacus’s slave revolt in 71 BC?
Crassus
Who solidifies his control of Rome at Colline Gate in 82 BC?
Sulla
What Mauretanian leader does Sulla convince to betray his son Jugurtha to the Romans in 105 BC?
Bocchus I
What Greek city does Sulla siege in 86 BC?
Athens
Who bequeaths his kingdom of Pergamum to Rome in 133 BC?
Attalus III
Who was given the right to stop Saturninus via a Senatus Consultum Ultimum in 100 BC?
Marius
Whose land reform was vetoed by Marcus Octavius in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
In what year was Tiberius Gracchus elected tribune?
133 BC
Where do a group of slaves in 73 BC begin a revolt led by Spartacus?
Capua
Mithridates VI was king of what ancient region in modern day Turkey?
Pontus
In what year was the battle of Arausio?
105 BC
What law of 66 BC transferred command against Mithridates VI from Lucullus to Pompey?
Lex Manilia
At what battle does Gaius Marius defeat the Teutones in 102 BC?
Aquae Sextiae
In the Third Mithridatic War, who was initially given command against Mithridates until the Lex Manilia transferred command to Pompey in 66 BC?
(Licinius) Lucullus
What Armenian king does Lucullus defeat at Tigranocerta in 69 BC?
Tigranes the Great
What did the Lex Iulia of 90 BC do?
Offered Roman citizenship to Italians who had not fought against Rome in the Social War
What tribe does Marius defeat at Vercellae in 101 BC?
Cimbri
What proconsul of Hispania held out against Sulla until he was assassinated by Marcus Perperna in 72 BC?
Sertorius
What war lasted from 91-88 BC?
Social War
As tribune of 133 BC, who tried to push land reforms reinstating that no citizen should be able to hold over 500 iugera of land?
Tiberius Gracchus
What nickname did Cornelia call her sons, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus?
her jewels
Who was first given command against Mithridates VI before Sulpicius Rufus transfers the command to Marius in 88 BC?
Sulla
During the Second Mithridatic War, what Roman leads the charge against Mithrades VI from 83-81 BC?
Licinius Murena
What nickname is given to Sulla on account of his luck?
Felix
By way of the Lex Manilia, who gains command against Mithridates VI during the Third Macedonian War in 66 BC?
Pompey
What two tribes worked together to destroy Servilius Caepio and Mallius Maximus at the battle of Arausio in 105 BC?
Cimbri & Teutones
Adherbal, Hiempsal, and Jugurtha all sought control of Numidia after what king’s death in 118 BC?
Micipsa
Who marches on Rome after losing command against Mithridates VI to Marius in 88 BC?
Sulla
The Treaty of Dardanus ended Roman conflict with what Pontic king in 85 BC?
Mithridates VI
Although they would grow to be enemies later, what two men worked together to take down Jugurtha in 105 BC?
Marius & Sulla
What name is given to the political party which favored the tribunate and the assemblies of the people?
Populares
After beating out his stepbrothers Hiempsal and Adherbal, who gained control of Numidia in 112 BC?
Jugurtha
What two men served as co-consuls in 70 BC?
Pompey & Crassus
In what year was the battle of Colline Gate?
82 BC
In what year was Marius consul for the first time?
107 BC
What tribe does Marius defeat at Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC?
Teutones
How many times was Gaius Marius consul?
7 times
What fellow tribune vetoed Tiberius Gracchus’s land reform law in 133 BC?
Marcus Octavius
Who was tribune in 123 and 122 BC?
Gaius Gracchus
Who is executed in the Tullianum (Mamertine Prison) in 104 BC after he was betrayed by his father Bocchus I?
Jugurtha
Who decisively defeats Mithridates at the battle of Nicopolis in 66 BC?
Pompey
In 63 BC, who tries to overthrow the Republic until Cicero intervenes?
Catiline
What consul of 121 BC was the main political enemy of Gaius Gracchus?
Lucius Opimius
Where do Gaius Marius and Lutatius Catulus defeat the Cimbri in 101 BC?
Vercellae
What name is given to the political party filled with rich traditionalists who wished to limit the power of the popular assemblies and tribunate?
Optimates
Where was Jugurtha executed in 104 BC?
Tullianum / Mamertine Prison
What “final decree” did the Senate pass giving Gaius Marius the right to stop Saturninus?
Senatus Consultum Ultimum
Calling the Gracchi brothers “her jewels”, what woman is the mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus?
Cornelia
What famous Roman is the grandfather of the Gracchi brothers?
Scipio Africanus
What kingdom does Attalus III bequeath to Rome in 133 BC?
Pergamum
Who was tribune in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Marius was from what town?
Arpinum
80,000 people died as part of what foreign king’s Asiatic Vespers in 88 BC?
Mithridates VI
What consul dies in 84 BC by a mutiny of his own troops?
Cinna
Where did Gaius Gracchus want to settle a new colony called Junonia?
Carthage
