In second century Rome, the corruption of extortion, bribe-taking and

These 40 question are only one attempt test from Western Civilization I (early Rome- CH 4 and Imperial rome CH 5).QUESTION 1In second century Rome, the corruption of extortion, bribe-taking and dishonest contractors symbolized the decline of Roman republican virtues.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 2Contributing greatly to Rome’s initial success was a combination of ruthlessness in war combined with a relative generosity in victory towards the defeated peoples of the Italian Peninsula.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 3For Romans, the ideal soldier was a farmer who served the state and then returned to work his farm.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 4The two basic social classes in Roman society were the plebes and the equites.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 5In Rome, to ‘exercise the imperium’ meant to deploy Roman forces beyond the traditional boundaries of the Roman state.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 6The Etruscan civilization was the first to develop into a centralized empire on the Italian Peninsula, and it was this highly organized and tightly knit empire that was able to project its power to defeat Carthage.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 7In the Roman republic, power was shared at every level by two or more equals who were elected for fixed terms, and at the top were two consuls each selected for one-year terms.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 8″Greater Greece” refers to the collection of Greek colonies that populated the lower half of the Italian Peninsula and on the Island of Sicily.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 9Religion in Rome was about a personal relationship with the gods and was an essentially private activity carried out wherever the numina required worship.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 10Sometime around 800 B.C. E. the Italic peoples were moving onto and settling the Italian Peninsula. At the same time, the Phoenicians began arriving and building their own cities on the coast of North Africa and on Sicily.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 11In the end, Rome won its wars over Carthage because they were able to bury class differences, retain the loyalty of most of their allies, and because they had gifted commanders such as Scipio Africanus.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 12Because Etruscan women played, like Greek women, a very passive and hidden role in society, Greeks generally considered Etruscan women to be much more civilized that either Roman or Carthaginian women who they thought were rather lewd.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 13Rome won the First Punic War after 20 years of slugging it out with Carthage, mostly because they had already destroyed Greece and could do so without worrying about their eastern flank.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 14Based upon Roman foundation myths, we know that Rome was actually settled by the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who became the clan fathers of all the Roman gentes.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 15The Etruscan civilization began to weaken after they lost control of the sea, and on land were challenged by the growing populations of Celts to the North and Romans to the South.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 16Each of the Roman gentes was headed by a paterfamilias who had the authority of life or death over every member of the family.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 17The Roman Senate was much like the US Senate, an assembly of elected officials, mostly quite young, elected for limited terms by an enfranchised electorate.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 18Carthage depended upon its vast land-based empire for protection of its commercial empire and because of their complete inability to compete at sea, was unable to become either stable or prosperous.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 19Roman mothers were never legally related to their children, and wives and mothers were not fully a part of their husband’s families.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 20The foundation for Roman republican government originated in Etruscan assemblies that had combined in order to prevent any one individual from taking power.TrueFalseQUESTION 1Paul’s theological message of the suffering of Jesus as a redemptive sacrifice for original sin offered salvation for those who believed, prayed and were baptized.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 2About the the reign of the Antonines, it has been said that it was,’the period in the history of the world during which the human race was the most poor and miserable.’TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 3The Tribunes Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus were murdered by the Senators of Rome because they attempted to undo the needed land reforms put in place by the Roman Senate.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 4When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he set in motion a civil war against the Roman forces of Pompey that would end with Caesar taking power in Rome.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 5Augustus’ long rule ushered in a period of conflict in the empire known as the Bellum Romana in which Rome was constantly at war with some neighbor or another, draining the imperial coffers of gold and raising the price of wheat throughout the empire.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 6Emperor Augustus felt that Rome’s declining birth rate and corruption could be blamed on the bad influence of foreigners, especially the growing popularity of Greek homosexual practices.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 7Roman emperors, acting in the role of tribunes to the people, brought them, free grain handouts, water-filled aqueducts, and theaters and Colosseum-style entertainments.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 8As the Christian church grew and became more organized, women, were excluded from positions of authority as the Christian community came increasingly to resemble the Roman patriarchal household.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 9Christianity began as a small Jewish sect based upon the martyrdom of its leader Joshua ben Joseph at the hands of the local Roman procurator.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 10By the end of the first century, Christian authority was claimed to derive from the bishops’ status as miracle workers who roamed around converting pagans with numerous feats of unexplainable healing, bringing people back to life, and so on.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 11Among the Hasidim of Jewish society in occupied Judea, the Pharisees and Zealots disagreed strongly over whether or not they should fight the Roman occupation.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 12Octavian’s power was supported by his huge wealth, the loyalty of the upper class and his control over the armies of Rome.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 13Around the first century B.C.E. the slave population of Italy was negligible, probably only around 10% of the population, but they were treated so well, sometimes as family, that they never attempted to revolt against their owners.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 14Official Roman religious cults were challenged in the first century C.E. by mystery cults that promised eternal life and a personal relationship with a god.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 15The reason that Julius Caesar was assassinated was that he had previously killed the brother of Marcus Brutus who had spoken against his becoming pontifex maximus.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 16Romans considered Christians to be a dangerous and subversive cult because they worshiped a Jewish and therefore unpopular and suspicious foreign god p.125TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 17Paul of Tarsus, a Roman citizen, saw Christianity as an entirely new Hellenistic, non-Jewish mystery religion that adapted well to Roman paternalism, and so denied that Christianity was in any sense a fulfillment of Judaism or of the Old Testament.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 18Romans, by and large, were generally more interested in human behavior and character than they were in the sciences, though they supported the work of the Greek scientists of Alexandria.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 19After the Roman conquests of the Mediterranean region, Roman wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few, the optimates.TrueFalse5 pointsQUESTION 20The Roman imperial government was supported by a combination of taxes, rents, forced labor, military service, requisitions and outright extortion.TrueFalse