Test Bank Docx Ch11 Principate Crisis & Recovery

CHAPTER 11 CRISIS, RECOVERY, AND THE CREATION OF THE PRINCIPATE (150–21 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 01

1. What were the three main responsibilities of a provincial governor?

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a. The administration of justice

b. Military defense

c. Establish a centralized office of provincial administration

d. Collect taxes

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 02

2. Locally hired tax collectors were known as _______.

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a. dispares

b. staticuli

c. publicani

d. incogniti

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 03

3. Under Tiberius Gracchus, Senators increasingly looked out for their own self-interest. In doing so, they split into what two camps based on their preferred methods for doing so?

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a. optimates

b. revoluti

c. frigiduli

d. populares

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 04

4. When _______ occupied the Aventine Hill, the Senate responded by passing the Senatus consultum ultimum, or “Last Decree of the Senate.”

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a. Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus

b. Tiberius Gracchus

c. Gaius Marius

d. Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 05

5. Who created the Roman volunteer army?

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a. Lucius Cornelius Sulla

b. Tiberius Gracchus

c. Gaius Gracchus and Fulvius Flaccus

d. Gaius Marius

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 06

6. The year 90 BCE saw a massive revolt of Rome’s Italian allies that triggered the so-called _______.

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a. Conflict of the Nations

b. Social War

c. “Last Decree of the Senate”

d. Creation of the first volunteer army at Rome

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 07

7. Which of the following seized on unhappiness with Roman provincial administration to lead a major war against Rome?

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a. Mithridates VI

b. Cornelius Cinna

c. Darius I

d. Jugurtha

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 08

8. Who published Proscriptions in order to kill his enemies and reward his soldiers?

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a. Spartacus

b. Crassus

c. Pompey

d. Sulla

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 09

9. Large senatorial estates were known as _______.

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a. equites

b. remoramina

c. retinaculae

d. latifundia

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 10

10. Which of the following earned the nickname Adulescens carnifex (“The Teenage Butcher”) in his youth?

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a. Crassus

b. Pompey

c. Julius Caesar

d. Sulla

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 11

11. Whom did Cicero, when he was Consul, accuse of plotting to overthrow the state?

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a. Pompey

b. Catiline

c. Marius

d. Julius Caesar

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 12

12. What charismatic leader united the Gauls in a great revolt against Caesar and the Romans in 52 BCE?

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a. Ctesiphon

b. Ariovistus

c. Vercingetorix

d. Philip II Philoromaeus

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 13

13. Reportedly saying, “The dice are cast,” Caesar crossed the _______ with his army in 49 BCE.

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a. Pyrenees Mountains

b. Alps

c. Nile Delta

d. Rubicon River

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 14

14. Whom did Julius Caesar adopt in his will?

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a. Gaius Octavius

b. Mark Antony

c. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

d. Caesarion

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 15

15. In 31 BCE the forces of Octavian faced off against Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of _______.

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a. Zela

b. Pharsalus

c. Actium

d. Philippi

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 16

16. The honorary title Augustus, conferred on Octavian by the Senate, means something like _______.

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a. “The conqueror”

b. “The one who is revered”

c. “The one who brought peace”

d. “The strong”

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 17

17. Which of the following are among the powers that Augustus gathered to himself in 21 BCE and the years thereafter?

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a. The power to appoint the two Consuls

b. The title of Pontifex Maximus

c. Greater proconsular imperium

d. The tribunician power

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 18

18. Which historian wrote accounts of the War against Jugurtha and the Conspiracy of Catiline?

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a. Sallust

b. Varro

c. Livy

d. Lucretius

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 19

19. After which battle on this map did Caesar issue his famous words “veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”)?

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a. Ilerda (49 BCE)

b. Zela (47 BCE)

c. Alesia (52 BCE)

d. Alexandria (47 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 11 Question 20

20. This famous Roman was nicknamed Dives (“the Rich”) and brought an end to the slave revolt sparked by Spartacus. Who is he?

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a. Julius Caesar

b. Pompey

c. Crassus

d. Lucius Cornelius Sulla