The Romans - Review

The Apennine Mountains

• split Rome into many small villages.
• kept Rome from interacting with the Etruscans.
• did not prevent expansion of the city.
• protected Rome from the Greeks.

From which group did the Romans borrow their style of dress?

• Greeks
• Etruscans
• Carthaginians
• Gauls

Who attempted to redistribute land to the poor with disastrous results?

• Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
• Lucius Cornelius Sulla
• Julius Caesar and Crassus
• Pompey and Caesar Augustus

Marius changed Rome’s military recruitment system by

• making recruits swear an imperial oath.
• accepting patrician recruits.
• recruiting the landless poor.
• accepting non-Roman recruits.

In 53 B.C., the First Triumvirate ended with the death of

• Julius Caesar.
• Octavian.
• Pompey.
• Crassus

Who was appointed dictator after defeating Pompey?

• Julius Caesar
• Octavian
• Antony
• Crassus

After the Second Triumvirate, with whom did Antony war for control of Rome?

• Julius Caesar
• Octavian
• Lepidus
• Crassus

Caesar Augustus changed the way the provinces were ruled by

• making all free people citizens of Rome.
• preventing senatorial interference.
• removing his armies from the provinces.
• choosing the leaders of those provinces.

Pax Romana, a long period of peace, ushered in

• large-scale building programs.
• a decline in imperial power.
• the reign of Nero.
• the end of external trade.

Which of the following was an action taken by Emperor Caracalla?

• bringing an end to imperial taxation
• building a wall to prevent invasion
• granting citizenship to all free people
• reducing provincial building programs