World History Chapter 8

Question 1

What year was Rome founded

Answer 1

753 BC.

Question 2

Another name for Italy

Answer 2

Apennine Peninsula

Question 3

Who were the ancestors of the Romans

Answer 3

The Itali

Question 4

Common marketplace or meeting place for Latin settlers

Answer 4

Forum

Question 5

A seafaring people from Asia Minor who appeared in Italy about 800 B.C.

Answer 5

The Etruscans

Question 6

Two social classes developed by the Etruscans

Answer 6

Patricians (upper-class insiders)
Plebeians (lower-class outsiders)

Question 7

A temple dedicated to the numerous gods of the Roman Empire

Answer 7

Pantheon

Question 8

Slave hired to tutor and discipline Greek sons

Answer 8

Pedagogue

Question 9

A group of citizens, in an ancient Greek and Roman democracy, with the power to pass laws

Answer 9

Assembly

Question 10

In ancient Rome, the supreme governing body originally made up only of aristocrats

Answer 10

Senate

Question 11

The branch of the Roman republic that voted on you laws, and made declarations of war

Answer 11

Assembly of centuries

Question 12

Group of people that began colonizing the Mediterranean world extensively during the 700s B.C.

Answer 12

Greeks

Question 13

“Greater Greece”

Answer 13

Magna Graecia

Question 14

City founded in 814 B.C.

Answer 14

Carthage

Question 15

Wild Celtic barbarians from Western Europe

Answer 15

Gauls

Question 16

What are the Roman ideals

Answer 16

Pietas (piety)
Gravitas (gravity)
Dignitas (dignity)

Question 17

In what year did the nobles of Rome lead a revolt of both patricians and plebeians against the tyranny of the last Etruscan king, Tarquin the Proud?

Answer 17

509 B.C.

Question 18

What became Rome’s two greatest contributions to Western civilization

Answer 18

Her republican form of limited, representative government
Her reverence for the rule of law

Question 19

Roman military units of 3000-5000 foot soldiers and cavalry

Answer 19

Légions

Question 20

Which group of people were the one major rivals of the western Mediterranean

Answer 20

Carthage

Question 21

Who fought in the Punic Wars?

Answer 21

Rome and Carthage

Question 22

Who won the First Punic War?

Answer 22

Rome

Question 23

Carthaginian général that annihilated the Romans at the Battle of Cannae

Answer 23

Hannibal

Question 24

Roman général that was dispatched to North Africa to fight Hannibal; what was the name of the battle

Answer 24

Scipio; thé Battle of Zama

Question 25

Who won the Battle of Zama?

Answer 25

The Romans

Question 26

Who participated in the Third Punic War?

Answer 26

Thé Numidians, the Romans, and the Carthaginians

Question 27

What did the Romans do to the Carthaginians in the third Punic War?

Answer 27

They burned Carthage for 17 days and poured salt all the over the land to prevent it from growing food?

Question 28

By the year ….., the Romans were he masters of the Mediterranean world

Answer 28

133 B.C.

Question 29

What problems did the Romans encounter because of the expansion of their land?

Answer 29

Moral breakdown and economic decline

Question 30

What did the rich Romans give the poor Romans

Answer 30

“Bread and circuses”

Question 31

Évent in which prisoners of war, slaves, or criminals were forced to fight in public shows

Answer 31

Gladiators

Question 32

Who became tribune in 133 B.C.

Answer 32

Tiberius Gracchus

Question 33

Who was elected tribune in 123 BC. after his brother

Answer 33

Gaius Gracchus

Question 34

which two people fought Rome's first civil war? idol of the masses? Champion of the senate? who ended up winning?

Answer 34

Marius and Sulla; Marius; Sulla; Sulla

Question 35

who were the two chief competitors after Sulla's death

Answer 35

Pompey and Julius Ceasar

Question 36

Alliance formed by Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus/ meaning « rule by three men »

Answer 36

First Triumvirate

Question 37

Who was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty

Answer 37

Cleopatra

Question 38

Who introduced the Julian Calendar

Answer 38

Julius Caesar

Question 39

Julius Caesar’s date of death

Answer 39

March 15, 44 B.C.

Question 40

Where Caesar lead his army to in order to attack Rome

Answer 40

The Rubicon River

Question 41

Which three peoples formed the Second Triumvirate

Answer 41

Mark Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus

Question 42

Republican Rome’s greatest orator and statesman

Answer 42

Cicero

Question 43

Where did Octavian defeat Antony’s fleet in 31 B.C.

Answer 43

Actium

Question 44

Which brothers tried to bring aid to the poor and reform to Rome?

Answer 44

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

Question 45

Who were the opposing generals in Rome’s first civil war?

Answer 45

Marius and Sulla

Question 46

Who was the great Roman orator and statesman assassinated by the Second Triumvirate

Answer 46

Cicero

Question 47

In which naval battle was the fleet of Antony defeated by Octavian

Answer 47

Actium

Question 48

What are the titles attributed to Octavian

Answer 48

Princeps Caesar Imperator Pontifex Maximus Augustus

Question 49

What does the New Testament refer to Octavian as

Answer 49

Caesar Augustus

Question 50

Jesus Christ was born around …..?….. in Bethlehem of ….?…..

Answer 50

4 B.C.; Judaea

Question 51

Who were the Claudian emperors? Which one ruled during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ? Which one initiated the first great outbreak of persecution against the Christians?

Answer 51

1. A series of rulers after Caesar Augustus’s death 2. Tiberius 3. Nero

Question 52

Under Caesar Augustus began the famed Pax …..?….. from ….-….

Answer 52

Romana ; 30 B.C.- A.D. 180

Question 53

Who were the Flavian emperors

Answer 53

Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian

Question 54

In …?… Titus captured Jerusalem

Answer 54

A.D. 70

Question 55

Who were the “Five Good” emperors

Answer 55

Nerva Trajan Hadrian Antonius Pius Marcus Aurelius

Question 56

Diocletian ruled as Augustus in West

Answer 56

East

Question 57

Who became the Augustus of the West

Answer 57

Maximian

Question 58

What are Rome’s greatest contributions to civilization

Answer 58

Latin language Roman law Republican government

Question 59

What is common every Latin called

Answer 59

Vernacular or Vulgar Latin

Question 60

…?…. Latin is spoken and understood by churchmen and scholars all over Western Europe

Answer 60

Medieval

Question 61

What is the source of about one half of the words in the English language

Answer 61

Latin

Question 62

Time frame from the birth of Cicero to the death of Augustus

Answer 62

Golden Age of Latin Literature

Question 63

Who was the greatest poet of the Golden Age?

Answer 63

Virgil

Question 64

Epic poem written by Virgil that describes the legendary events that led to the founding of Rome

Answer 64

Aeneid

Question 65

Who became Rome’s leading poem after Virgil’s death

Answer 65

Horace

Question 66

What is Horace’s lyric called

Answer 66

Odes

Question 67

Whose work transmitted classical Greco-Roman mythology to the modern world

Answer 67

Ovid

Question 68

Greek biographer best known for his masterpiece “Parallel Lives”

Answer 68

Plutarch

Question 69

What are the chief principles of Roman law?

Answer 69

- single sovereignty - universality - equity

Question 70

The notion that all law derived from a single central source

Answer 70

Single sovereignty

Question 71

The belief that all men share a common human nature

Answer 71

Universality

Question 72

The principle that laws should be sufficiently flexible to fit a large number of particular cases

Answer 72

Equity

Question 73

What is Rome’s greatest heritage in the realm of law?

Answer 73

Justinian Code

Question 74

What is the focal point of all world history

Answer 74

The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ

Question 75

Muscles always (push/pull), they never (push/pull)

Answer 75

Pull, push