Testsssss Flashcards
What was the name of the earliest Roman popular assembly?
Comitia Curiata
What city did Spartacus break loose to start the slave rebellion in 73bc?
Capua
In what year did the first Mithradatic war start?
89bc
What site saw the defeat of Catilines army and his death in 62bc?
Pistoria
What Roman statesman in 55bc introduced his candidacy for the consulship by stating he would recall Caesar from Gaul?
Domitius Ahenobarbus
What statesman of Rome passed laws giving free gifts of grain to the public?
Clodius Pulcher
What year was the cult of the great mother formally established?
204bc
What consul allowed himself to be lured by the Tigurni and was killed in an ambush in 107?
Cassius Longinus
At what city was Marcus Aurelius Cotta’s fleet burned and captured by the Kingdom of Pontus?
Chalcedon
Who did Caesar appoint in 49bc to take charge of the affairs of the city of Rome?
Lepidus
Who harshly prosecuted followers of Tiberius Gracchus while consul of 132bc, and went into self imposed exile when targeted by Gaius Gracchus?
Popilius Laenas
Who was supported by Caesar and Crassus in the candidacy of 64bc along side Hybrida?
Cateline
Pliny the elder wasn’t implicated and eliminated in what conspiracy of 65ad?
Pisonian Conspiracy
St Ambrose forced Theodosius 1 to repent for the massacre of what city?
Thessalonica
Whom did Septimius Severus appoint as Caesar in order to focus his war effort against Pescennius Niger?
Clodius Albinis
Whose death in 4ad cause a crisis of succession?
Gaius Caesar
What tribal leader conducted the resistance to Claudius’ invasion of Britain?
Caratacus
What two 3rd century ad emperors have been credited for a major victory over a Gothic coalition at the Battle of Naissus?
Gallienus/Claudius II
What emperor was struck by lightning?
Carus
Who was Caesar in the West under the second Tetrarchy?
Valerius Severus
Anthemius and Pulcheria acted as regents for what 5th century emperor?
Theodosius II
In whose court did Constantine serve at the start of the second Tetrarchy?
Galerius
What man was put to death for conspiring to install his grandson Gnaeus Pedianus Fuscus on the throne in 136ad?
Ursus Servianus
What deity, originally the agent of Ahura-Mazda, served as the counterpart to Ahriman but later become the central deity of a Roman mystery cult?
Mithras
What governor of Pannonia did Gallienus defeat when the former rose as a pretender to the throne?
Ingenuus
Where were both Agrippina younger and elder exiled?
The Tyrrhenian Sea
What lieutenant of Trajan crushed Jewish rebellions in Egypt and Cyrene, preventing further rebellion until that of Bar Kochba?
Marcius Turbo
What emperor reorganized an Egyptian fleet as the classis Augusta Alexandrina to ensure the age and regular delivery of grain to Rome?
Vespasian
Augustus made an appointment to which religious office, which had been vacant since 87bc?
Flamen dialis
What man helped Lucius Domitius Domitianus assume the title of emperor in Alexandria before being crush’s by Diocletian?
Achilleus
Who was responsible for the final abandonment of the Antonine wall?
UlPIUS Marcellus
Which Julio-Claudian emperor was the uncle of the Roman hero Germanicus
Tiberius
Who assumed imperial power at the request of Constantius’s sister after the death of Constans?
Vetranio
Which Roman legal expert served in the inner circle of both Hadrian and Antoninus Pius?
Salvius Julianus
Who was the Romano-Jewish scholar who, though initially joining the rebellion in Judea against the Romans, became a close advisor to the emperor Titus ans an authoritative historian on the Jewish wars?
Josephus Ben Matityahu
Where did the usurper Domitius Alexander proclaimed Augustus in 308ad rule?
Africa
Which cult did the Romans consider derived from Zoroastrianism?
Mithras
Which emperor was killed by Ricimer in August, 461ad?
Majorian
With what object did Elagabalus allegedly asphyxiate some of his dinner guests with?
Rose petals
After being appointed head of his father’s Praetorian Guard, Titus was able to put down which conspirator and secure his position as emperor-to-be?
Aulus Caecina
What position did Gaius Gracchus take in 123bc?
Tribune
What number of Roman provinces did Sulla increase it to?
10
What year did Caesar become pontifex Maximus?
63bc
What tribe in the Apennines?
Samnites
Pompey was initially called Magnus by who?
Sulla
What law appointed Sulla as dictator in 81bc?
Lex Valeria
Who claimed to receive instructions from a white fawn given to him by Diana?
Quintus Sertorius
What year was the battle of Philippi?
42bc
What year was Pompey elected sole consul?
52bc
Who in the summer of 52 did Pompey take as his consular colleague?
Metellus Scipio
What emperor first attempted to abolish Christianity throughout the Empire?
Decius
When did Ataulf lead the Visigoth’s into Gaul?
412ad
How was Alaric related to Ataulf?
Brother- in-law
When was the battle do Chrysopolis?
324ad
Where did Caligula order Petronius to set up a statue of him?
Temple in Jerusalem
What wife of an emperor promoted the cult of Cybele and was deified when she died in 140ad?
Faustina
What did Gratian withdraw imperial support from in 382ad?
Official recognition of Pagan worship
Who assisted Caracalla in the murder of his own brother Geta?
Papinianus
Who was the early Marty of the Christian church who completely overturned the existing male-dominated social and political order at Carthage in 203ad?
Perpetua
Who was the first wife of Claudius?
Plautia Urgulanilla
What did Diocletians first edict in 303 do to Christians?
Destruction of Christian’s churches and books
In 73ad what sheer rock fortress was taken after a 6 month siege?
Masada
What province did Pescennius Niger govern before his revolt?
Syria
Where did Maximian establish his imperial residence?
Milan
In 429 whom did Gaiseric lead to begin seizing North Africa?
Vandals
Against what bishop of Constantinople did the Augusta Eudoxia conspire?
John Chrysostom
Augustus personally led the fight against the Cantabrians and Asturians around 27 bc in what location?
Spain
What emperor affronted the senate by becoming the first to hold the office censor and purging the body of some members?
Claudius
Whom did Hadrian commission to draw up an edictum perpetuum?
Salvius Julianus
What did The edictum perpetuum from Hadrian do?
Binded all present and future praetors to a set code of laws and court procedures
What province was the council of Nicaea in?
Bithynia
Who appointed Romulus Augustulus emperor?
Orestes
When did Augustus revive the Ludicrous saeculares?
17bc
Who taught rhetoric to Marcus Aurelius?
Fronto
Under whose leadership was Mauretania divided into two imperial provinces?
Claudius
Which temple was built to celebrant the end of class struggle between the patricians and plebeians?
Temple of concord
What office was created from the 1st plebeian succession?
Tribunus plebis
What is another name for he magister populi?
Dictator
What sueban king did Caesar defeat at the battle of Vosges?
Ariovistus
Who created the Acta Diurna, the world’s first newspaper?
Caesar
Who did Pompey restore to the throne of Egypt in 55?
Ptolemy Auletes
Who refused to swear to Saturninus’ agrarian law in 100?
Caecilius metellus numidicus
What proconsul in Gaul completed the defeat of the Allobroges?
Quintus Fabius Maximus
Who originally hired the member times as mercenaries?
Agathocles
Whom did Rome intervene to rescue in the 1st Samnite war?
Capua
Where did Marc Antony first meet and form an alliance with cleopatra?
Tarsus
Whom did Caesar install as king of Britain in his invasion of 52?
Mandubracius?
As Sulla besieged Athens in 87, whom did he order to raise a fleet?
Lucullus
What tribe opposed Hannibals March across the alps?
Allobroges
Who was granted a triumph even though Cossus won the spoilia Opima?
Mamercus
According to Livy, what was the 1st act of Romulus as king?
Fortify the palatine
Who is Julius Caesar’s first wife’s father?
Cinna
The first secessio plebis occurred in what years?
495-493
Who did Cicero defend against charges that include the murder of Dio?
Caelius
What river was the end of the third servile war?
Silarius
What road were the survivors of Spartacus forces crucified?
Via appia
What was the original name from consuls?
Praetors
Julius Caesar’s priesthood as flamen dialis was annulled by who?
Sulla
Where did Hannibal die?
Bithynia
What commander of Vespasian defeated Vitellius at the second battle of Cremona?
Antonius Primus
What brother in law of Hadrian was put to death for attempting to make his own grandson emperor in 136ad?
Julius Ursus Servianus
What tribe was Cartumandua queen of?
Brigantes
What emperor reached a truce with Bahram II?
Probus
What pretender to the throne did Probus defeat before being executed by Pannonia armies?
Bonosus
Who was executed to Planasia in 9ad?
Agrippa Postumus
What emperor abdicated the throne and retired to Salona on the Adriatic?
Diocletian
Who did Perennis execute, his co praetorian prefect?
Paternus
Where was Syphax king?
Masesyli
Who presented Crassus standard after the battle to Ordodes II?
Surena
Coriolanus received an oak leaf crown for bravery during the battle of lake Regillus, who bestowed him this honor?
Cominius Auruncus
Who was Cincinnatus’ dutiful wife?
Racilia
Who razed the city where Tarquinius Superbus was buried much later?
Sulla
Who called himself the new Hannibal?
Sertorius
What was the fate of the decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus?
Commited suicide
What war was Marcus Valerius Corvus associated with?
First Samnite
What two naval battles did Scipio Asiaticus defeat Hannibal?
Eurymedon and Myonessus
Who did Caesar ally with in the consulship of 59?
Brutus
What plebis tribune tried to combat the abuses of the patricians in 462bc?
Terentilius Harsa
What tribe did Cataline rally to fight against Rome?
Allobroges
Under who did Caesar sand Cicero study rhetorician and philosophy?
Apollonius
What patrician conspired to seize the Roman armory and graineries and take control of the government?
Spurius Maelius
Caligulas praetorian prefect who went before the senate to invalidate Tiberius Gemellus part in the imperial rule was….?
Macro
Septimius Severus split what province into Coele and Phoenice?
Syria
What emperor was born at Phoenice?
Elagabalus
Who did the alimentary provide needs for?
Poor people
Who began the saint Peters Basilica on the Vatican hill?
Constantine
What was the purpose of the constitutio Antoniniana?
To replenish the treasury
During Domitians reign, who did Agricola lead fierce fighting against?
Dacians
Where did Maximinus Thrax overthrow Severus Alexander?
Moguntiacum
What honorific title did Vitellius use as emperor?
Germanicus
What emperor banished philosophers from Italy?
Domitian
Who executed Vestal Virgins on charges of corruption?
Domitian
Who succeeded Gordian III?
Phillip the Arab
What office did Augustus make to facilitate mail services?
Curses Publicus
At what battle of 269 did Claudius Gothicus defeat the goths?
Naissus
Who was called the last true Roman and was given the eastern half of the empire by Valentinian I?
Valens
How did Aurelian die?
Murdered
How was Octavian and Caesar biologically related?
Grand nephew
Who successfully demanded public penance from Theodosius I?
Ambrose
Where were Trajans ashes buried?
Trajans column
Which empress was carried away after the Vandals sacked Rome in 455ad?
Licinia Eudoxa
How did Jovian die?
Inhaled fumes from a stove
Who was the first wife of Octavian?
Claudia
In the mid 5th century, a Roman comission was sent to Greece to study the laws of what Athenian?
Solon
What were the years of Octavia and Antony’s marriage?
40-32bc
Who held imperium in Rome when the king was away from the city?
Praefectus Urbi
Where is palmyra?
Syria
Which praetorian prefect under Hadrian was responsible for executing the four consulars?
Attianus
What year was Cleander and two other praetorian prefects appointed?
185ad
At what conference did Licinius replace Severus in 308?
Conference at Caruntum
Who was the wife of Germanicus?
Agrippina the elder
What battle of 293 did Asclepiodotus defeat Allectus and reestablish Roman rule in Britain?
Silchester
Galla Placidia and Aetius essentially rules the empire during the reign of what emperor?
Valentinian III
What city did Ricimer take in 472 after defeating Anthemius?
Rome
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Germanicus is what emperor?
Claudius
Which emperor called himself the Roman Alexander the Goat?
Caracalla
Who captured the Druidic stronghold Mona in 59?
Suetonius Paulinus
Which emperor divided the Roman Empire into 12 dioces?
Diocletian
What emperor was responsible for confiscations of property and execution of dissenters?
Domitian
One of Septimius Severus acts was presenting which of his possible rivals with the title of Caesar?
Clodius Albinus
Under what famed lawyer did Cicero, along with his friend Atticus, apprentice?
Mucius Scaevola
According to Plutarch, who was the first to stab at Caesar on March 15tt?
Casca
What town did Ancus Marcius settle on the Palatine?
Palitorium
What battle in 45bc did the omen of a palm shoot sprouting overnight convince Caesar to adopt Octavian as his heir?
Munda
At the battle of Silva Arcia, Brutus simultaneously died while locked in combat with which son of Tarquinius superbus?
Aruns
In what year was Octavian born?
63bc
What cavalry commander of Hannibal said “ you, Hannibal, know how to gain a victory; you do not know how to use it,” after the battle of Cannae?
Maharbal
Which warlord north of the Thames did Caesar subdue during his 2nd invasion of Britain?
Cassivellanus
What city became the capitol of the Roman province of Africa after the 3rd Punic war?
Utica
What Carthaginian leader, against Hamilcar’s advice, advocated abandonment of the 1st and 2nd Punic wars?
Hanno
What city surrendered to Rome prompting the first Samnite war?
Capua
Who was the first plebian censor?
Rutilus
What was the father of Vercingetorix who tried to unite Celts under one banner and was executed by his own tribesmen for trying to fight Caesar?
Celtillus
The senior fleet for the imperial navy, given barracks near the Colosseum where it assisted with the naumachia, was stationed in what town?
Misenum
What praetorian prefect was dismissed by nerva after the assassination of Domitian?
Petronius Secundus
What emperor withdrew the Roman legions from Armenia and Assyria and established the eastern border in the Euphrates?
Hadrian
Who assisted Nero with his suicide?
Freedman, Epaphroditus
What emperor permanently abolished the Praetorian guard?
Constantine
What magister militum was responsible for the elevation of the young Valentinian II to the rank co-Augustus?
Merobaudes
Who served as co-consul with Marius in 86?
Cinna
Which historians capture during the 3rd Macedonian war lead to him being enslaved and taken back to Rome?
Polybius
Serving as consul in 36bc, who served under Marc Antony but refused to fight Octavian, which created a truce between the two men?
Cocceius Nerva
Who was co-consul with Cocceius Nerva in 36bc?
Gellius Publicola
Who fought with Horatius Cocles at the pons sublicius, and would later kill the king of Tusculum at lake regillus?
Titus Herminius
In which city besieged by Camillus, did a teacher try to hand over schoolchildren as hostages?
Falerii
What court did Hannibal die in?
Prusias 1
Tiberius Gracchus tried to enact measures to save land for farmers , soldiers and the poor with what law?
Senpronia agraria
At the funeral oration for his aunt, Caesar said that his aunt was a descendant of what king?
Ancus Marcius
Where was Gaius verres governor?
Sicily
Pompey went to Judea to mediate a conflict between which two would-be kings?
Hyrcanus and aristobulus
What formation came in direct response to Romes several losses in the second Samnite war?
Maniple
Which Roman king introduced the census?
Servius Tullius
Where did Crassus defeat Spartacus’ forces in 71bc?
Aquilea
What law was passed in 90bc?
Lex Julia
What did the Lex Julia do?
Offered peace to Romes Italian allies who gave up the war
What Roman general lost at lake Trasimene?
Gaius Flaminius
In what year did Rome accomplish its final subjugation of the Latin League?
338bc
What is another name for Bagradas River?
Tunis
Who was the first Roman to have his imperium extended beyond his term as consul in order to lay siege to Naples in 326?
Publius philo
Who defeated Cataline at the battle of Pistoria?
Marcus Petreius
What consuls fleet was defeated by the pirates near Ostia in 68ad?
Marcus Rex
What Roman admirable defeated Eudamus at Myonesus, the last notable Roman naval victory over a foreign enemy?
Aemilius Regulus
Where did Scipio Barbatus lose to the Samnites?
Camerinum
What office was first instituted in 242 to deal with disputes arising with foreign merchants?
Praetor peregrinus
Where did Cicero spend exile in 58 and 57?
Macedonia
What town was at one point the capitol of the Italians during the social war?
Aesernia
What country was Julius Caesar planning on invading of just before his assassination in 44bc?
Parthia
What position did Sulla hold under Marius during the war with Jugurtha?
Quaestor
Who was the great uncle of Romulus and Remus?
Amulius
What battle saw the death of the Antigonid dynasty?
Pydna
In what year did the first gladiatorial games occur?
264bc
Who commanded the optimates against Caesar at the battle of Thapsus?
Metellus Scipio
What did the Lex Ogulnia do?
Opened the priest hood to plebians and increased the number of pontifices from five to nine
Where did Mithradates VI finally die in 63bc?
Panticapaeum
What Roman commander died at the Baetis river in the Guadalquivir province during the Second Punic War?
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Eunus is to Cleon as Salvius is to?
Athenion
What chieftain of the Helvetii organized a conspiracy against Caesar in Gaul?
Orgetorix
Who was a strong opponent of Catos words Carthago Delenda Est?
Scipio Nasica
In 343, with what city did Rome form an alliance with?
Capua
When it was originally built in 312bc, what city was the terminus of the via appia?
Capua
Where did the first servile war take place?
Sicily
In 68bc, who defeated a group of pirates by conquering Crete?
Metellus Pius Creticus
Why did Marc Antony have such an enduring hate for Cicero?
He ordered the execution of his father during the Catilinarian conspiracy?
What king of Rome first brought water to Rome via an aqueduct?
Ancus Marcius
After the death of Alexander the Great, the Asiatic portion of his empire, Syria;Babylonia; and the eastern regions, fell under whose control?
Seleucus
Who was the immediate successor of Hamilcar Barca after Hamilcar’s death in 228?
Hasdrubal the fair
What people did Antiochus IV try to force to accept Greek culture?
Judaeans
Who was indicated on a charge that he had encouraged Marcus Livius Drusus the younger in his sympathy for the Italian social cause?
Aemilius Scaurus
What city was a capitol of Italians during the social war?
Corfinium
After the Romans won at Sentinum, what tribe took no further part in the Samnite wars?
Gauls
What city never fell during the wars against Pyrrhus and Rome but was ceded after the peace treaty ending the 1st Punic?
Lilybaeum
What Roman commander fought at Pydna?
Quintus Caecilius Metellus
What city In 125 complained about the Gauls in to Rome who then sent Marcus Fulvius Flaccus?
Massilia
When did Clodius Pulcher sneak into the Bona Dea festival?
62bc
What consul of 495 forced the Plebians to secede due to his enforcement of harsh laws
Appius Claudius
After his victory at Heraclea, what ambassador did Pyrrhus send?
Cineas
After the first Illyrian war, what Greek island did Rome take possession of?
Corcyra
What city went back on an alliance with Rome in 390bc but Cincinnatus defeated them later?
Praeneste
Where did Hannibal retire to for 4 years before he returned to Carthage in 203bc?
Bruttium
What battle non-civil war battle saw the most deaths?
Arausio
Who, because of the small war bonus he got, tried to block Aemilius Paullus’ triumph in 167bc?
Servius Sulpicius Galba
Why did Spartacus make an agreement with the Cilician pirates?
To transport men to Sicily
Who led Caesarians forces at Bagradas Valley in 49bc?
Curio
Who was the first wife of Augustus?
Clodia
Who was the de facto ruler of Rome for the first 10 months of Vespasians reign?
Licinius Crassus Mucianus
What general and governor of Judea was put to death in 118ad?
Lusius Quietus
What ARMENIAN king did Corbulo have success against?
Tiridates
What demand did the Praetorians make of the new emperor Nerva - a demand which he acceded to?
Execute the killers of Domitians
What Roman friendly king of Armenia did the Persian Narses drive out in 296?
Tiridates IV
Who was the first husband of Poppea Sabina?
Rufrius Crispus
Where did Licinius marry Constantia?
Council of Milan
When was the council of Nicaea?
325, may
What does Vitellius mean?
Little calf
Who was the first man to hold the imperial throne without previously being a senator?
Macrinus
What emperor put Aulus Caecina to death?
Titus
Who did the Goths ask to settle in Roman territory before the battle of Adrianople because of the raids of what people?
Huns
How old was Gratian when elevated to the purple?
16
When Claudius invaded Britain, who did all the British generals fear?
Cunobelinus
What province did Diocletian retire to after abdicating?
Dalmatia
What Illyrian commander, the military equal of the emperor Aurelian, was declared emperor by the armies of Tacitus?
Probus
Was Otho defied after his death?
Yes
When was time transferred from Rome to Milan?
293ad
Who was Galbas freedman advisor who brought word that the senate appointed him emperor?
Icelus
Who proposed to the senate that Octavianus be given the name of Augustus in 27bc?
Munatius Plancus
What Roman general suppressed the Bar Cochbas revolt?
Julius Severus
Who did Diocletian defeat at Margus river?
Carinus
Who conspired to kill her grandson and daughter?
Julia Maesa
What general under Domitian defeated the Dacians at Tapae?
Tettius Iulianus
What emperor was told by Apollodorus of Rhodes to “go and play with his pumpkins?”
Hadrian
What tetrarch died in may of 311 at Sardinia?
Galerius
What Suevian commander rebelled in Ravenna and declared himself emperor in 456?
Ricimer
What consul advocated Concordia Ordinum or Harmony of the Orders in 63?
Cicero
What two Roman commanders fought at Magnesia?
Ahenobarbus and Asiaticus
Which of Antony’s lieutenants captured Jerusalem from the Parthians in 37 and installed Herod as king?
Gaius Sosius
What a capitol of the rebel confederacy during the social war?
Bovianum Vetus
Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 with the help of what Alexandrian scholar?
Sosigenes
What city did Pompey capture in 64 that basically ended the last Mithridatic war?
Nicopolis
Who was the first plebian censor?
Marcius Rutilus
Who was the only Julio Claudian emperor to hold the office of censor so he could revise the senate lists?
Claudius
Who was the last emperor to be deified after his death
Constantine
When was Constantinople founded?
November 8, 324
Who was the tetrarch who repented his persecution of Christians on his deathbed?
Galerius
Who was Claudius’ praepositus a libellis?
Callistus
Whom did Corbulo force to rule Armenia as a client king?
Tigranes
What special power granted to Augustus in 23 allowed him to override the governors of the provinces?
Maius imperium
Tiberius transferred the election of annual magistrates to which of these bodies?
Senate
The reign of Alexander Severus began with the joint regency of which two people?
Julia Mamaea and Maesa
What tribune passed a law transpiring command in Asia to Marius?
Sulpicius
What famous general led the right wing at the battle of colline gate?
Crassus
Where was Scipio Africanus’ first victory?
Carthage nova
Who invited troops to mutiny against lucullus?
Clodius
Who did Rhodes make an alliance with to protect themselves from Phillip V?
Pergamum
Who was the first to encounter the rising power of Parthia?
Sulla
Viriathus survived a treacherous massacre by what man in 150bc?
Sulpicius Galba
