Final Crisis & Late Roman Empire Exam Prep Chapter 13

CHAPTER 13 CRISIS, RECOVERY, AND THE CREATION OF THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE (192–337)

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 01

1. Under the reign of Septimius Severus the status of the _______ declined.

Feedback: Page Reference: (pp. 476–477)

a. emperor

b. army

c. Senate

d. Praetorian Guard

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 02

2. Septimius reportedly told his sons to do what?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 478)

a. “Have at least four sons”

b. “Be seen by the Roman people as often as you can”

c. “Always consult the Senate, even if you disregard their advice”

d. “Treat the soldiers well and despise everyone else”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 03

3. What was the effect of the Antonine Constitution of 212 CE?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 478)

a. All inhabitants of the empire except for slaves and certain freedmen became Roman citizens

b. It permanently set the Roman frontiers at their current location

c. It instantly converted all imperial edicts into laws that were valid throughout the provinces

d. It offered additional incentives for men to join provincial administrations

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 04

4. Under Roman criminal law in the early third century CE, a person was legally classified into one of which two categories?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 478)

a. Honestiores

b. Sublimes

c. Humiliores

d. Blandiores

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 05

5. The closest Rome ever came to having real empresses was when which two women took over government on behalf of young emperors?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 482)

a. Anna Domna

b. Livia Domna

c. Julia Maesa

d. Julia Mamaea

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 06

6. Between 235 and 284 CE there were more than _______ emperors.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 483)

a. fifty

b. one hundred

c. ten

d. twenty five

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 07

7. Who created the Palmyrene Empire and even took the title of Augusta?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 485)

a. Artemisia

b. Zenobia

c. Cleopatra IX

d. Postumia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 08

8. The efforts of which emperor earned him the nickname “The Restorer of the World”?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 488)

a. Claudius Gothicus

b. Constantine

c. Aurelian

d. Gallienus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 09

9. What Asian senator, who in 229 CE received death threats from the soldiers under his command, wrote an eighty-book history of Rome when he went into retirement?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 490)

a. Callinicus

b. Dexippus

c. Dio Cassius

d. Plotinus

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 10

10. Which of the following were among the problems that Diocletian faced when he became emperor?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 491)

a. A shrinking and underfunded bureaucracy

b. An economy in ruins

c. The army had become difficult to control

d. There was no effective method for choosing emperors

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 11

11. Diocletian assumed what title in an effort to change the way the emperor was perceived?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 491)

a. Pater Patriae

b. Benevolus

c. Servus

d. Dominus

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 12

12. Under Diocletian the army was split up into which two types?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 494)

a. limetanei

b. comitatenses

c. custodiae

d. hostes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 13

13. Diocletian revised the tax system so that it was based on payments in kind, known as _______.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 495)

a. annona

b. pecuniae

c. fundamenta

d. fides

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 14

14. In 312 CE Constantine defeated Maxentius at the Battle of _______.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p.499)

a. Constantinople

b. the Hellespont

c. the Milvian Bridge

d. Chrysopolis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 15

15. Under Constantine, the Senate lost its authority to do what?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 499)

a. Declare war

b. Name emperors

c. Set foreign policy in the east

d. Balance the imperial budget

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 16

16. In what ways was Constantinople a copy of Rome?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 500)

a. It had its own Senate

b. Its port was exactly the same distance from the city center

c. It was supposedly built on seven hills

d. It had its own Circus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 17

17. Christians and others were granted “full authority to observe that religion which each preferred” by what edict?

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 502)

a. The Edict of Constantinople

b. The Edict of Rome

c. The Edict of Milan

d. The Edict of Nantes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 18

18. Bishops of Alexandria, Antioch, and Rome acquired the higher status of _______.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 504)

a. patriarch

b. vicar

c. archbishop

d. prelate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 19

19. The dioceses seen on this map were administered by _______.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 495)

a. centurions

b. vicars

c. praetorians

d. Caesars

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 20

20. This statue group of four rulers represents an imperial _______.

Feedback: Page Reference: (p. 492)

a. Triumvirate

b. Diocese

c. Dominate

d. Tetrarchy