SparkNotes: The Roman Empire (60 BCE-160 CE): Review Test

The chief threat to Rome's eastern borders in the 160s were the

(A) Marcomanni

(B) Parthians

(C) Goths

(D) Sassanids

In the time of Marcus Aurelius, the method of imperial succession was

(A) Hereditary

(B) Senatorial acclamation

(C) Adoption

(D) Legion decision

Who were the first Germanic Barbarians to invade Roman lands and when?

(A) Franks, 57 BCE

(B) Marcomanni, 100 CE

(C) Quadi, Marcomanni, Sarmatians, 160s-80s, CE

(D) Angles and Saxons, 120s CE

Who was Caligula's successor, and how did he become Emperor?

(A) Trajan, adoption

(B) Septimius Severus, adoption

(C) Claudius, Senatorial election

(D) Claudius, Praetorian selection

The Flavian emperors were of what background?

(A) Balkan, commercial

(B) Iberian, military

(C) Italian provincial equestrian

(D) Gaulic, tribal

Augustus' reforms did not include

(A) boards

(B) military reorganization

(C) religious freedom

(D) new coinage

Pax Romana refers to

(A) Strong Roman administration, order, and general lack of warfare ion imperial territory

(B) treaties between Roman co-emperors in East and West

(C) Roman-Barbarian agreements for settlement in return fo military service

(D) The Church's corporate status ion Rome

Latifundia began as

(A) Emperor's estates administered by decurions

(B) provincial notables' large agricultural estates worked by landless peasants

(C) regions settled by Barbarians, from which they received share of agricultural surplus

(D) North African Grain Reserves

The Parthians were

(A) Eastern Danubian tribes of slavic origin

(B) Dacian troops pushing far west

(C) a pacifist Persian dynasty overthrowing the Sassanids

(D) Rome's chief Eastern enemy

The Triumvirate was

(A) Tiberius' sharing of power with his adopted half brothers

(B) Pompei's sharing of power with Augustus and Caesar

(C) Vespasian's bequest of power to four families

(D) Temporary cooperation among Marcus Antonius, Octavian, and Lepidus

When as the Jewish revolt?

(A) 68-71 CE

(B) 41-43 CE

(C) 116 CE

(D) 62 BCE

Christianity's status under Nero was

(A) the new imperial cult

(B) tolerated but illegal

(C) the official state religion

(D) persecuted

In the eyes of Roman society, craftsmen were

(A) equal in status to equites

(B) to swear they used proper coinage

(C) seen as a lower social class

(D) sons of the Church

Praetorian Prefect was

(A) Chief of staff of all Roman forces

(B) Latin generals serving as Imperial aides

(C) commander of elite palace guard

(D) The crown prince

Which of the following is not a reason Germanic tribes presented little danger to Rome prior to 200 CE?

(A) They were impoverished

(B) rulership was excessively centralized

(C) internal fighting was rampant

(D) The Roman garrisons kept them at bay

Comitatus was

(A) the council in which imperial decisions were taken

(B) Large German armies under tight German king control from 200

(C) Church conventions from 325 in Nicaea

(D) Small, tightly organized Germanic raiding groups from the 200s

Who brought Rome's borders to the German lands?

(A) Pompei

(B) Varrus

(C) Germanicus

(D) Caesar

Why was Agrippina murdered?

(A) Sterility

(B) She conspired against Nero

(C) Nero feared her and was influenced by his advisers

(D) She disliked Mark Antony

What was Cleopatra's role at Actium?

(A) Naval deployment

(B) desertion

(C) treason

(D) mediator

What was the Barbarian attitude to Rome?

(A) Awe and resentment

(B) attraction and unquestioning loyalty

(C) material attraction, and possibly as a safe haven

(D) Rome was barbarous

Who conquered Dacia?

(A) Camuldunom

(B) Decebalus

(C) Trajan

(D) Domitian

When was the second Jewish revolt?

(A) under Caligula

(B) under Nero

(C) Under Hadrian

(D) Under Vespasian

What were the auxiliaries?

(A) non-Italian Roman citizens

(B) barbarians settled outside Roman borders, selling goods to state merchants

(C) Barbarians settled within Roman lands from the 50s, required to provide military service

(D) From beyond Roman boprders, coopted into service under legionary commanders and tribal lords.

Sejanus was

(A) Augustus' comrade

(B) Caligula's tutor

(C) Boon companion of Tiberius, took advantage of position

(D) last consul

Alimenta was begun under

(A) Trajan

(B) Hadrian

(C) Claudius

(D) Nerva

When was the first recorded persecution of Christians by Rome?

(A) 33 CE

(B) 68 CE

(C) 65-67 CE

(D) 118 CE

The Principate began to emerge in

(A) 29 BCE

(B) 23 BCE

(C) 27 BCE

(D) 14 BCE

Equites were

(A) Emperor's cavalry

(B) Gaulic clients

(C) Knights-turned businessmen from Italian towns.

(D) Armenian sovereigns

Bedricum II was in

(A) 69 CE

(B) 7 CE

(C) 30 BCE

(D) 44 BCE

Agrippa was

(A) Mark Antony's lieutenant

(B) Octavian's chief companion, supporter

(C) Germanicus' wife

(D) Nerva's adopted heir

Munda

(A) Began the Antony-Octavian conflict

(B) Last Caesar-Pompei era battle

(C) The Princeps mint

(D) Aeretium's glassware

Britain was conquered in

(A) Caligula's reign

(B) Domitian's reign

(C) Claudius' reign

(D) Caesar's consulship

Who was not one of the Four Emperors?

(A) Galba

(B) Otho

(C) Primus

(D) Vespasian

When did Caesar die?

(A) 15 March 47 BCE

(B) 1 March 44 BCE

(C) 15 March 44 BCE

(D) 33 BCE

The core of Roman society was

(A) Asia Minor and Italy

(B) Italy

(C) The Mediterranean Basin

(D) Italy, Gaul, and Iberia

Who put down the Jewish Revolt?

(A) Vespasian

(B) Florus

(C) Hadrian

(D) Titus

Who killed Claudius?

(A) Agrippina

(B) Poppaea

(C) Sejanus

(D) Antoninus Pius

What was the importance to Rome of North Africa?

(A) Preventing a Carthaginian resurgence

(B) Money tribute supporting the Roman economy

(C) grain and other foodstuffs

(D) gold and slaves

Marcus Aurelius

(A) gave Roman citizenship to all in the empire

(B) was Balkan in origin

(C) was the son of Italians who settled in Iberia

(D) died from the plague

Until 7 CE Augustus' goal in Germany was

(A) Annexation to Oder

(B) withdrawal

(C) the border on the Elbe

(D) Veterans' colonies

The foundation of Roman law was

(A) avoidance of blood-feuds

(B) impersonal, to be applied to all

(C) based on place of origin

(D) heavily Christian by 450

By 96, the Senate

(A) was almost entirely Barbarian

(B) Mostly Patrician

(C) a king-maker

(D) mostly equestrian

When did Rome burn?

(A) 69 CE

(B) 29 BCE

(C) 98 CE

(D) 64 CE

Marcomanni were

(A) Dacian refugees

(B) Parthian horsemen

(C) Germanic tribals along Danube-Rhine

(D) Italian peasants

Germans learned of Rome

(A) through conquest

(B) as slaves

(C) through trade and auxiliary service

(D) as new citizens

How were Caesar and Augustus related?

(A) nephew, and later adopted heir

(B) cousins

(C) father and son

(D) servant and master

Hellenism attracted

(A) Caligula

(B) Nero

(C) Caligula and Nero

(D) Burrus and Seneca

(E) Aspirantion

The Praetorian Guard was

(A) a group of papal officers provided by Constantine

(B) an elite corps of palace guards from Praetus

(C) Palace guards all of Italian birth who ended up making and unmaking emperors, eliminated by 200

Claudius was disliked

(A) because he was too Hellenistic

(B) because he was of non-Italian birth

(C) because he allowed the Jews to rebuild their Temple

(D) because he was infirm and ignored the Senate

Who was the most favorite emperor after Augustus?

(A) Vespasian

(B) Trajan

(C) Antoninus Pius

(D) Hadrian

Who innovated a standing army?

(A) Marius

(B) Agrippa

(C) Augustus

(D) Caesar

Otho became emperor through

(A) battle

(B) bribery

(C) birth

(D) acclamation

What was not one of Augustus' reforms?

(A) army

(B) Rome administration

(C) calendar

(D) career paths of senators

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