Global-2/10/12: Empire, Pax Romana, & Family Life

Global-2/10/12: Empire, Pax Romana, & Family Life

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Why did the Senate not like Julius Caesar?

• He was too handsome
• He kept losing battles
• He and Pompey were besties
• He was getting too popular and powerful

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What will the the immediate result of Julius Caesar’s assassination?

• Power returned to the Senate.

• Cleopatra defeated Rome.

• A private army ruled Rome.

• A series of civil wars took place.

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Cleopatra was queen of which country?

• Egypt

• Rome

• Greece

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Cleopatra featured as a villain the propaganda of who...

• Mark Antony

• Cicero

• Caesar

• Octavian Augustus

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Cleopatra aligned herself politically with which two Roman leaders

• Octavian and Mark Antony

• Caesar and Pompey

• Crassus and Nero

• Caesar and Mark Antony

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What was the Pax Romana?

• A series of aqueducts bring water to Rome

• A phrase meaning, "All roads lead to Rome."

• An illness that spread throughout Rome

• A period of peace during the Roman Empire.

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Caligula enjoyed humiliating individual senators by making them do what?

• Serve him food at banquets

• Run by his chariot

• Perform sexual favours

• Sew pearls onto his slippers

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Caligula was believed to have proposed making his horse a consul in the Roman Senate. What was his horses name?

• Flavianus

• Incitatus

• Despotanius

• Valerius

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He persecuted and killed many Christians who he blamed for starting the Great Fire in the city of Rome.

• Nero

• Caligula

• Vespian

• Domitian

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Which Roman emperor is responsible for using Christians as candles for his garden parties and forcing them to fight lions in the Colosseum?

• Claudius

• Augustus

• Nero

• Trajan

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This emperor heavily taxed Rome and killed his mother and wife.

• Nero

• Vespasian

• Elagabalus

• Trajan