Question 1

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Delators

Accepted Answer

Informers who accuse

Question 2

In order to remain in power peacefully, Octavian needed the support of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the patricians 
B)  the plebeians 
C)  the counsuls 
D)  the military 
E)  the Senate 
A)  the patricians 
B)  the plebeians 
C)  the counsuls 
D)  the military 
E)  the Senate

Question 3

What is the only official office that Octavoan held?

Accepted Answer

A)  Senator 
B)  Consul 
C)  Emperor 
D)  Augustus 
E)  Pontifex Maximus 
A)  Senator 
B)  Consul 
C)  Emperor 
D)  Augustus 
E)  Pontifex Maximus

Question 4

Which emperor defeated Queen Zenobia and was nicknamed the "restorer of the world"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Augustus 
B)  Trajan 
C)  Septimus Severus 
D)  Aurelian 
E)  Tiberius 
A)  Augustus 
B)  Trajan 
C)  Septimus Severus 
D)  Aurelian 
E)  Tiberius

Question 5

How could a person in the provinces be granted Roman citizenship?

Accepted Answer

A)  Learning to speak Latin 
B)  Rejecting Christianity 
C)  Serving in the military for 25 years 
D)  Settling on latifundia along disputed borders to hold the land 
E)  An annual lottery 
A)  Learning to speak Latin 
B)  Rejecting Christianity 
C)  Serving in the military for 25 years 
D)  Settling on latifundia along disputed borders to hold the land 
E)  An annual lottery

Question 6

Who succeeded Augustus?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nero 
B)  Tiberius 
C)  Augustus 
D)  Vespasian 
E)  Nerva 
A)  Nero 
B)  Tiberius 
C)  Augustus 
D)  Vespasian 
E)  Nerva

Question 7

Why did the Roman army fall out of control in the third century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their salaries became worthless with debased coinage. 
B)  They would overthrow an emperor to get a donative from a new one. 
C)  They declared their commanders as emperors. 
D)  They would march on Rome to force the Senate to choose their candidate. 
E)  All of these. 
A)  Their salaries became worthless with debased coinage. 
B)  They would overthrow an emperor to get a donative from a new one. 
C)  They declared their commanders as emperors. 
D)  They would march on Rome to force the Senate to choose their candidate. 
E)  All of these.

Question 8

Official court records of the trials of Christians sometimes served as the basis of later biographies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Delators

In order to remain in power peacefully, Octavian needed the support of ______________.

What is the only official office that Octavoan held?

Which emperor defeated Queen Zenobia and was nicknamed the "restorer of the world"?

How could a person in the provinces be granted Roman citizenship?

Who succeeded Augustus?

Why did the Roman army fall out of control in the third century?

Official court records of the trials of Christians sometimes served as the basis of later biographies.

The Origins of the West in the Ancient Near East

Iron Age Civilizations

The Rise of Greek Civilization

From Polis to Cosmopolis: the Hellenistic World

The Rise of Rome

Late Antiquity

The Eastern Mediterranean

The Kingdoms of Western Europe

The High Middle Ages

Reversals and Disasters

The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe

Europes Age of Expansion

Reform in the Western Church

A Century of Crisis

State Building and the European State System

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Trade and Empire

Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Europe

Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal Europe

Industrialization and Society

The Triumph of the Nation-State

The Culture of Industrial Europe

The Age of Imperialism

War and Revolution

A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments

Democracy Under Siege

Europe Divided

Lifting the Iron Curtain

Europe in a Globalizing World

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Exam 6: The Roman Empire

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Delators

In order to remain in power peacefully, Octavian needed the support of ______________.

What is the only official office that Octavoan held?

Which emperor defeated Queen Zenobia and was nicknamed the "restorer of the world"?

How could a person in the provinces be granted Roman citizenship?

Who succeeded Augustus?

Why did the Roman army fall out of control in the third century?

Official court records of the trials of Christians sometimes served as the basis of later biographies.

The Origins of the West in the Ancient Near East

Iron Age Civilizations

The Rise of Greek Civilization

From Polis to Cosmopolis: the Hellenistic World

The Rise of Rome

Late Antiquity

The Eastern Mediterranean

The Kingdoms of Western Europe

The High Middle Ages

Reversals and Disasters

The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe

Europes Age of Expansion

Reform in the Western Church

A Century of Crisis

State Building and the European State System

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Trade and Empire

Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Europe

Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal Europe

Industrialization and Society

The Triumph of the Nation-State

The Culture of Industrial Europe

The Age of Imperialism

War and Revolution

A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments

Democracy Under Siege

Europe Divided

Lifting the Iron Curtain

Europe in a Globalizing World

Filters