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WorksheetsChapter 5 Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 30mins
In Roman families, the authority figure was the oldest male. This situation is known as...
Patronage
Rule by the Paterfamilias
Primogeniture
The patron/client relationship
Unlike the Greeks, the Romans...
Were a peaceful people who practiced diplomacy over farming
Were a naval power
Granted Roman citizenship to conquered people
Forced conversion to the Roman state religion
One of the major impacts of pax romana was...
The facilitation of trade
Major wars against Persia
The conquest of Arabia
The rise of tenant farming
The Romans originally viewed Christianity negatively because...
They were not Roman in origin
Jesus had offended the Roman government
Judaism was a banned religion
Their monotheism kept them from worshiping the Roman emperor
As the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 500s, Rome...
Remained a center for the Christian church
Expanded its population base
Lost its trade centers to Naples
Became the capital of the Franks
Like Rome, the Qin and Han...
Faced similar problems with the defense of the empire
Had to delegate autonomy to local officials
Built thousands of miles of roads to facilitate troops
All of the above
The essential economic activity of the early Roman state was based on...
Agriculture
Mercantilism
Mining
Fishing
The council whose members were heads of wealthy landowning families at the center of political action in the Roman Republic was...
The Council of Nobles
Annually elected civic officials
The Senate
The Plebeian Council
What statement is true about Roman women?
They were equal to Roman men
They had no say in family matters
They were powerless and virtually slaves in their own homes
They exercised influence over husbands and sons
Which of the following was the most common pattern to Roman expansion?
Aggressive fans of war in Rome
The short term of office of the Consuls in the Senate
The desire to acquire buffer zones protecting them from attack by enemies
The mandate to impose their religion on neighboring regions
As a result of two prolonged wars with this empire, the Romans became the unmatched power of the Western Mediterranean by 200 B.C.E.
Lebanon
Carthage
Persia
Scythians
The conquest of the Celtic peoples of Gaul was accomplished by this famous Roman general by 51 B.C.E.
Gaius Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
Octavian
Romulus
During the Republic, Romans managed their imperial territories by...
Brutal domination and conquest, enslaving local populations
Establishing a system of satrapies and using local leaders to enforce Roman power
Establishing a provincial administration and sending a Roman senator to oversee matters
Non occupation and little interaction other than tax collection
What factor caused a decrease in small farms in the Late Roman Republic?
Wars that devastated land and made farming difficult
An economy primarily based on trade with the East
The growth of latifundia and a shift to nonstaple crops
Increased urbanization in the centralized Republic
The emperor responsible for the reorganization of the Roman government after 31 B.C.E. went by the honorific name of...
Julius Caesar
Caligula
Nero
Augustus
The main reason for the decline of the Roman Republic was...
An impoverished population
Political decentralization
Military leaders with armies loyal to them rather than to the state
Ongoing wars in trying to expand to an empire
Under the Principate, Roman law...
Was limited to the Twelve Tables
Came largely from the emperor himself
Were gathered from local traditions and evaluated by jurists to compile the lex romana
Were based on the Twelve Tables and supplemented by decrees from the Senate and bills from the Assemblies
Jesus Christ, executed by the Roman authorities as a revolutionary, was seen by his early followers, the Apostles, as...
A philosopher
A rabbi
The Messiah
A military leader
How is the career of Paul an example of the "cosmopolitan" nature of the Roman Empire?
He only converted Romans to Christianity
He refused to debase himself by using anything Roman
He was able to use the benefits of Roman citizenship, roads, and cities to spread Christianity
He found that both Jews and Christians readily accepted his views of Jesus as the messiah
Why was becoming Christian considered an act of disloyalty in the Roman Empire?
Rome had a strong monotheistic tradition
Christians could not worship the emperor as a deity
Rome required all citizens to learn about all world religions
One of Christianity's aims was to overthrow dictators
The engineering expertise of the Romans is seen in all of these except...
Aqueducts
Roads
Gothic Cathedrals
Arches
Starting with the reign of Augustus, the Roman army was reorganized and redeployed to...
Face the threat from the Parthian Empire
Shift from an offensive to a defensive strategy
Fight several civil wars against other Romans
Allow non-Romans into the military
What was one of the most important reasons for the economic decline in the third century C.E.?
Massive crop failures
Invasions of the Huns
Reduced amount of precious metals in the coins by the emperors
Inability to efficiently collect taxes within the empire
Who reformed Rome in the third century C.E. and saved it from decline?
Diocletian
Tiberius
Constantine
Claudius
The conversion to Christianity of which Roman emperor ushered in a time of tolerance, acceptance, and the eventual dominance of Christianity?
Diocletian
Tiberius
Constantine
Brucellios
What city became the new imperial capital of the Roman Empire in 324 C.E.?
Damascus
Alexandria
Athens
Constantinople
The competition among states in the Warring Sates Period resulted in...
The creation of the first empire under the Qin state
The escalation of violence against the upper classes
An enormous tax increase
Peasant rebellions
In an effort to increase his power, Shi Huangdi accomplished which of the following?
Cracked down on the Confucians
Standardized legal practices
Forced organization of labor
All of the above
One of the great construction projects of Shi Huangdi was...
The canal system
A system of interconnected roads
Connection of walls which ultimately made up The Great Wall
The Forbidden City palace
The well-planned urban capital of the Han dynasty was...
Seoul
Beiging
Nanjing
Chang'an
