Exam 5: The Roman Republic

Originally the Roman Senate

Which of the following statements best applies to Roman schooling:

The Roman senator who led the movement for the complete destruction of Carthage was

During the Third Punic War against Carthage, in the east in 148 B.C.E. the Romans made Egypt a Roman province.

The main achievement of the Hortensian law in Roman constitutional history was its

The Carthaginian general who marauded through the Italian peninsula during the Second Punic War was Hamilcar Barca.

The Second Punic War saw Carthage

The reforms of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus

After the Latin revolt (440-338 B.C.E.) Rome

The Twelve Tables was/were

Romans did not readily accept any Greek philosophy except that of

As Rome expanded, it became Roman policy to govern the provinces with officials known as

Which of the following statements about Roman names is incorrect?

As a result of the First Punic War

Imperium was

Because the Romans frequently adopted the gods of the peoples they came into contact with, and since, by the Republic, Greece was a major influence upon Rome, it can be argued that the Romans and the Greeks had essentially the same "Greco-Roman" religion.

For the Romans, ius gentium was that part of the law that applied to both Romans and foreigners, or was the law of nations and not just for the Romans.

In Rome, the male family head, the paterfamilias, could

Like most of the great Roman writers of the first century B.C.E., Catullus was from Rome.

Tiberius Gracchus ran for tribune in 133 B.C.E. on a program of