The Creation of Rome CH 6

Question 1

Second Triumvirate

Answer 1

Octavion, Antony, and Lepidus

Question 2

Proscription

Answer 2

Public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state.
Proscription eliminates political enemies and replenishes the Treasury.

Question 3

Senatorial resistance had been definitively crushed at

Answer 3

Philippi

Question 4

The decisive confrontation of the Final Battle in the war of the Roman Republic:

Answer 4

Battle of Actium

Question 5

“Princeps” or “first man” a term from the republic meaning the:

Answer 5

Most distinguished senator

Question 6

Augustus fundamentally transformed Rome’s political system into a:

Answer 6

Monarchy

Question 7

Augustus’s true source of power:

Answer 7

Controlled the state’s treasury and loyalty of the army.

Question 8

Augustus military reforms:

Answer 8

1. He professionalized the army.
2. Guaranteed soldiers pay and retirement benefits.
3. He created the Praetorian guard.

Question 9

Augustus’s contributions to Roman life: (same answer for all)
- Distributed grain
- Gladiatorial shows
- Prevent the citizenry from protesting and rioting

Answer 9

Bread and circuses

Question 10

Establishes the first ________________ in western civilization.

Answer 10

Fire department

Question 11

The goal:

Answer 11

Was stability and order not political freedom.

Question 12

Pax Romana

Answer 12

(The Roman Peace)

Question 13

The Julio-Claudians (5)

Answer 13

1. Augustus
2. Tiberius
3. Caligula
4. Claudias
5. Nero

Question 14

Insane tyrant:

Answer 14

Caligula

Question 15

One legacy from ____________ was the precedent he established by bribing the Praetorian guard to back him as the new Emperor.

Answer 15

Claudias

Question 16

He had his mother killed in 59:

Answer 16

Nero

Question 17

In 60 Nero ________________________________ scandalizing the Roman elite.

Answer 17

Performed as a musician in public,

Question 18

Victory showed the elite and the army wished to continue the Principate:

Answer 18

Vespasian

Question 19

The worship of the Emperor as a living god and making sacrifices for his households welfare:

Answer 19

Imperial cults

Question 20

First emperor to succeed his biological father:

Answer 20

Titus

Question 21

The Five Good Emperors:

Answer 21

1. Nerva
2. Trajan
3. Hadrian
4. Antoninus Pius
5. Marcus Aurelius

Question 22

Period known as:

Answer 22

The Golden Age

Question 23

The greatest military expansion in Roman history, and attained its maximum territorial extent:

Answer 23

Trajan

Question 24

Believed the financial strain to be incurred in keeping on a policy of conquests was something the Roman Empire could not afford:

Answer 24

Hadrian

Question 25

His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate:

Answer 25

Antoninus Pius

Question 26

Was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and acquired the reputation of a philosopher king within his lifetime:

Answer 26

Marcus Aurelius

Question 27

Messiah:

Answer 27

(Anointed One)

Question 28

The world is ruled by evil powers that would one day be crushed by the Messiah, God’s chosen agent after which the righteous would be rewarded and the evil punished:

Answer 28

Apocalypticism

Question 29

______________ 66-70 ___________________Christianity began to separate from Judaism.

Answer 29

1. The Zediot Revolt
2. And the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple

Question 30

Christians consider the _____________________ to be the cornerstone of their faith and the most important even in history.

Answer 30

Resurrection of Jesus

Question 31

Reasons for Roman persecution:

Answer 31

1. Christians denial of the gods would invoke.
2. Their wrath of the empire.
3. Christians were cannibals and sexually promiscuous.

Question 32

The biggest argument of the early church was the issue of the:

Answer 32

Trinity

Question 33

Doctrine states that the Apostles had appointed the first bishops as their successor, giving these officals the authority that Jesus had originally given to the Apostles.

Answer 33

Apostolic Succession

Question 34

Sacraments of the Church:

Answer 34

1. Baptism
2. Reconciliation
3. Holy Eucharist
4. Marriage
5. Anointing the Sick