Exam 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire

Women had more power in elite Roman households than their Greek counterparts.They raised the children,________.

Which of these was the last Etruscan state to oppose Rome?

Octavian made Mark Antony look weak by suggesting he was merely a pawn of Cleopatra,queen of ________.

Gaius Octavius,who adopted the name C.Julius Caesar Octavianus,is referred to by modern scholars as Octavian,and eventually would be known as ________.

As Rome defeated her neighbors on the Italian peninsula,her peace treaties offered ________.

In the years following the Second Macedonian War,Rome treated Greek cities as ________.

Mark Antony requested military aid from Cleopatra because ________.

Roman students wrote on ________.

The magisterial office known as the ________ had a five-year term and the power to remove senators from office for immoral behavior.

Julius Caesar,Crassus,and Pompey formed a private political alliance known as the First ________.

________ from Babylon influenced Roman civilization,despite the Senate's attempt to expel the practice in 139 b.c.e.

Compare the First and Second Triumvirates.Which was more effective? Why? What led to the dissolution of each?

Educated women were probably taught at ________,rather than at school.

King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans twice but suffered so many casualties that his career gave rise to the term,a "Pyrrhic _______."

Before the influence of Greece and Etruria and their personified deities,Roman gods were ________.

In the Roman Republic it was common for slaveholders to ________.

Because they suspected the Senate was taking bribes from Jugurtha,king of Numidia,________ elected Marius to the consulship and assigned him to defeat Jugurtha.

The Romans admired the culture of ________ but had contempt for the citizens' squabbling,commerce,and perceived weakness.

The power of the consuls in Rome was checked by the ________.

After overthrowing their king,the Roman elite established their state as a ________.