HIS1012

Rome became a republic when-

• Julius Caesar was assassnated

• the plebeians won the right to elect tribunes

• the patricians overthrew the Etruscan king

• laws passed by the Tribal Assembly

Why did Polybius think that the Roman republic had a perfectly balanced form of mixed government ?

• A form of government designed to prevent the return of a king

• There was no written constitution , so that government could constantly evolve

• The state fixed the calendar and institutionalized religious practice

• The consuls represented the monarchic principle, the Senate the oligarchs and aristocrats, and the assembly the people the democratic

The Second Punic War resulted in or contributed to-

• both Carthage and Rome were left in a weakened state

• a Roman obsession with peace

• the rise of Roman imperialism fueled by strategic and political consideration

• the rise of Carthage to dominance in the Mediterean

The Gracchi brothers central demand for which they were killed - was the

• extension of citizenship to all free Italians

• limitation of the powers of dictators such as Sulla and Caesar

• distribution to the poor of government land

• inclusion of the Tribunes in the Senate

The Second Punic War resulted in or contributed to-

• both Carthage and Rome were left in a weakened state

• a Roman obsession with peace

• the rise of Roman imperialism fueled by strategic and political considerations

• the rise of Carthage to dominance in the Mediterean

The first Punic war began because

• Carthage appeared weak and susceptible to Roman power

• Rome and Carthage were both trying to conquer Greece

• Rome was concerned that Carthage would take Messenia in Sicily and interfere with Roman trade

• Hannible moved troops into Spain

The patron-client relationshipthat existed between patrician and plebeian in early Rome involved

• supplying the client with food

• providing the patron with military and political support

• all of the above

• supplying the client with protection

Etruscan cities established trading and diplomatic contacts with the great Mediterranean powers, particularly with the-

• Greeks and Iberians

• Romans and Carthaginians 

• Phoenicians and Egyptians

• Greeks and Carthaginians

What were the two chief citizen orders which Roman society was divided?

• Etruscans and Latins

• tribunes and consuls

• oligarchs and plutocrats

• patricians and plebeians

How did Rome gradually integrate Italy into a greater Roman cultural and historical entity?

• by developing a complex government

• by treating its allies as part of an expanding nation state

• by enslaving or expelling the populations of conquered cities

• by substituting the legion for the phalanx