Exam Questions Chapter 4 The Expansion Of The Roman Republic - Roman Civ History | Test Bank Mathisen by Ralph W. Mathisen. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 4
15 instructor questions: 5 multiple choice, 10 T/F
1. After Hannibal’s consecutive victories between 218–216 BCE, the fearful and panicked Romans consulted the ______.
- Sibylline books (p. 114)
- shapes of clouds and other meteorological phenomena
- entrails of five hundred cattle
- flight of birds over the tomb of Romulus
2. In the early third century BCE, ______, not Rome, was the strongest Mediterranean state.
- Illyria
- Syracuse
- Macedonia
- Carthage (p. 111)
3. Hannibal’s capture of the Spanish city of ______ precipitated the Second Punic War.
- Saguntum (p. 113)
- Zama Regia
- Cannae
- Lusitania
4. Appius Claudius Caecus spearheaded the construction of the ______ in 312 BCE.
- Appian Way (p. 108)
- Appian Wall
- Claudine Forks
- Temple of Mars
5. In the year 146 BCE, Rome made a statement to any other peoples who might resist their will by destroying which two famous cities?
- Carthage and Syracuse
- Corinth and Carthage (p. 118)
- Cyrene and Athens
- Alexandria and Sparta
- Decius Mus inspired his troops to victory at the Battle of Sentinum by performing the ancient ritual of devotio. (T, p. 108)
- The Second Macedonian War ended with the Romans reluctantly occupying the Greek mainland. (F, p. 116)
- The Romans won a major victory in the First Samnite War. (F, p. 106)
- The territory that we call the Roman Empire was largely developed during the Roman Republic. (T, p. 105)
- Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder routinely ended his speeches in the Senate by admonishing his fellow senators that “Carthage must be destroyed.” (T, p. 118)
- Rome annexed Carthage in in 227 BCE and made it their first province. (F, p. 112)
- The so-called Syrian War actually began with a battle in Greece (the Battle of Thermopylae), not in Syria. (T, p. 116)
- In their early conflicts, the Romans won more battles than they lost. (F, pp. 105–106)
- Hannibal marched his army up to the gates of Rome itself. (T, p. 114)
- One of the uses to which the Romans put the confiscated land they called ager publicus (“public land”) was the establishment of strategic military colonies. (T, p. 109)
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