Roman Empire

Question 1

Octavian was awarded a title by the senate which is what?

Answer 1

Augustus

Question 2

What did Octavian understood that only these would satisfy the senatorial aristocracy?

Answer 2

Traditional republican forms

Question 3

Augustus maintained a standing army of how many legions and consisted of how many men?

Answer 3

28 legions and about 150,000 men

Question 4

Who proclaimed the “restoration of the Republic”?

Answer 4

Octavian

Question 5

What does Augustus mean?

Answer 5

The revered one

Question 6

Who govern certain provinces?

Answer 6

Deputies/legates

Question 7

It is also a title given to Augustus which means commander in chief

Answer 7

Imperator

Question 8

Only who can be legionaries?

Answer 8

Roman citizens

Question 9

What did Augustus conquer?

Answer 9

Central and maritime Alps

Question 10

About how many praetorian guards are there?

Answer 10

Roughly 5,000 men

Question 11

What did Augustus stabilize?

Answer 11

Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Question 12

Augustus expanded Roman control from what up to what?

Answer 12

Balkan peninsula up to the Danube River

Question 13

He became the first Roman emperor

Answer 13

Octavian

Question 14

Who was the general when Augustus attempted to conquer Germany (which failed)?

Answer 14

Varus

Question 15

How was Varus massacred?

Answer 15

By a coalition of German tribes

Question 16

What did the defeats in Germany teach Augustus?

Answer 16

That Rome’s power is not unlimited

Question 17

Augustus died after dominating the Roman world for how many years?

Answer 17

45 years

Question 18

Who was Augustus’ successor and how is he related to him?

Answer 18

Tiberius (his stepson)

Question 19

What dynasty did Augustus establish?

Answer 19

Julio-Claudian dynasty

Question 20

This person freely eliminated people that he wanted out of the way including his own mother

Answer 20

Nero

Question 21

How did Nero commit suicide?

Answer 21

By stabbing himself in the throat

Question 22

It means Roman peace

Answer 22

Pax Romana

Question 23

He implemented an alimentary program that provided state funds to assist poor parents in raids and educating their children

Answer 23

Trajan

Question 24

They built a defensive wall how long and where?

Answer 24

80 miles long across northern Britain

Question 25

What century was the Roman Empire seen as one of the world's greatest states?

Answer 25

At its height in the second century

Question 26

The Roman Empire covered how many square miles and had a population of what?

Answer 26

3.5 million square miles and had a population estimated at more than 50 million

Question 27

This emperor gave roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire

Answer 27

Emperor Caracalla

Question 28

It was the language of the western part of the empire

Answer 28

Latin

Question 29

It was the language used in the east

Answer 29

Greek

Question 30

Roman culture was mixed with what?

Answer 30

Greek culture

Question 31

Since the Roman culture and Greek culture were mixed they called it the ________________ civilization

Answer 31

Greco-Roman civilization

Question 32

The largest city in the Roman Empire is?

Answer 32

Rome

Question 33

Roman and Chinese Empires built roads for what purpose?

Answer 33

Military purposes but it came to facilitate trade as well

Question 34

The most important commercial contact that is a regular caravan route between west and east

Answer 34

Silk Road

Question 35

Where were the small peasant farms that continued to flourish?

Answer 35

Etruria and Po valley

Question 36

What is one of the notable characteristic of roman culture and society?

Answer 36

Impact of the Greeks

Question 37

Educated Greek slaves labored where?

Answer 37

Rich Roman households

Question 38

In the epic poem Aeneid who was the hero of Troy?

Answer 38

Aeneas

Question 39

They had the important task of guarding the emperor

Answer 39

Praetorian guard

Question 40

Where do the rich Romans send their sons to study?

Answer 40

Athens

Question 41

The high point of Latin literature which was reached in the age of Augustus was called?

Answer 41

Golden age of Latin literature

Question 42

The most distinguished poet if the Augustan age was who?

Answer 42

Virgil

Question 43

What is the most famous amphitheater?

Answer 43

Colosseum

Question 44

What is Virgil's masterpiece?

Answer 44

Aeneid

Question 45

Part of the law that applied to both Romans and foreigners

Answer 45

Law of nations

Question 46

Virgil expressed that what was Rome's gift?

Answer 46

Ruling

Question 47

Aeneid was a rival work of whom?

Answer 47

Homer

Question 48

What are the virtues of Aeneas?

Answer 48

Duty, piety and faithfulness

Question 49

How many beasts were killed in one day of games?

Answer 49

5,000

Question 50

He was portrayed as the ideal Roman

Answer 50

Aeneas

Question 52

They are the head and dominant male in the family

Answer 52

Paterfamilias

Question 53

The Roman art is similar to what?

Answer 53

Greek

Question 54

A huge public bath

Answer 54

Caracalla

Question 55

They are expected to weigh evidence carefully

Answer 55

Judge

Question 56

What was one of the spectacular natural disasters?

Answer 56

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Question 57

What was Rome's first code of laws?

Answer 57

Twelve tables

Question 58

The Romans excelled in a highly practical art which is?

Answer 58

Architecture

Question 59

These games were held from dawn to dusk

Answer 59

Gladiatorial games

Question 61

They arrange the marriages of their daughters

Answer 61

Fathers

Question 61

The legal minimum age for marriages for females is?

Answer 61

12 (but 14 was a more common age)

Question 63

It is the traditional form of execution for slaves

Answer 63

Crucifixion

Question 64

By what century did the upper-class Roman women had considerable freedom and independence

Answer 64

Late second century

Question 65

These slaves were in much demand as tutors, musicians, doctors and artists

Answer 65

Greek slaves

Question 66

A set of universal laws based on reason

Answer 66

Natural law

Question 66

What is the legal minimum age for males in marriages?

Answer 66

14

Question 66

Large-scale slave revolts occurred where?

Answer 66

Sicily

Question 67

The most famous uprising on the insult was led by a gladiator which is who?

Answer 67

Spartacus