Exercises on Ancient Rome

(FAU) The consolidation of Roman power over the Mediterranean Sea began with the conflicts known as the Punic Wars. Which city was the main core of rivalry with Ancient Rome in that conflict?

a) Sparta

b) Shooting

c) Babylon

d) Carthage

e) Nineveh

(Gualimp – adapted) Among the reasons that led to the end of the Roman Empire, are the migrations and barbarian invasions. Currently this term has different designations, but in the Roman period it had the meaning:

a) Represent the group of peoples whose values ​​incited violence and destruction as a form of action.

b) Name people who did not share the values ​​and language spoken by the Romans.

b) Referring to peoples considered primitive, that is, those who do not know the city and the rules of common coexistence.

d) Classify peoples considered inferior, who lived by hunting and fishing, were nomads and, for the Romans, incapable of civilizing themselves.

e) None of the above.

(Gualimp – adapted) After drawing up a series of measures, the government of Emperor Octavius ​​Augustus inaugurated a period of political stability known as the Pax Romana, which lasted for more than 200 years. years.

About this period, it is correct to say:

a) Humanist values ​​were disseminated, which helped to end slavery, increasing wage labor, and the spread of a new religious philosophy, Christianity.

b) Imperialist conquests were completely abandoned, conquered peoples were able to leave Roman lands and return to their origins.

c) The Roman Empire reached its maximum territorial extension, there was economic growth, dynamization of trade and the use of a unified currency.

d) Gladiator shows were abolished, compulsory military service was abolished, on the other hand, trade and agriculture expanded.

e) None of the above.

(AOCP Institute – adapted) Consider the general aspects of the Roman Republic (509 BC to 27 BC), and mark the correct alternative.

a) The republican phase of the history of the ancient Romans was marked by the absence of wars of conquest and the stagnation of territorial expansion.

b) In the Republic, the commoners achieved important achievements, such as the possibility of participating in the political decisions of the Senate and the end of debt slavery.

c) In the Punic Wars, the Romans were defeated by the Carthaginians, who demanded heavy indemnities of currency and land. Against this background, an unprecedented crisis took place in the Roman Republic.

d) Tiberius and Caio Graco were legislators who acted to prevent the political participation of the plebeian tribunes and to favor the interests of patrician landowners regarding the expansion of their rural properties.

e) General Crassus was largely responsible for leading the victories of the Roman legions in the region of Gaul.

In the 2nd century AD, the Roman Empire was affected by a pandemic that resulted in the death of an estimated five million people. The Antonine Plague was an outbreak of:

a) Smallpox

b) Typhoid Fever

c) Bubonic Plague

d) Anger

e) Measles

The two plebeian tribunes who sought to carry out agrarian reforms in the Roman Republic of the 2nd century BC. became known as:

a) Caesar Brothers

b) Gross Brothers

c) Augusto Brothers

d) Caio Brothers

e) Graco Brothers

According to traditional Roman legend, the story of the city's founding is linked to two brothers named:

a) Tiberius and Gaius

b) Marco and Augusto

c) Romulus and Remus

d) Octavius ​​and Julius Caesar

e) Tarquinius and Agrippa

The greatest slave revolt in Roman history was led by a Thracian gladiator named:

a) Alaric

b) Teodorico

c) Ataulfo

d) Spartan

e) Styling

The monarchic period of Roman history is what historians know least about, mainly due to the lack of historical sources. However, we know that in it Rome was dominated by a foreign people. Who are we talking about?

a) Greeks

b) Latinos

c) Etruscans

d) Celts

e) Illyrians

Which Roman city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79?

a) Capua

b) Tarento

c) Naples

d) Pompeii

e) Cremona

Throughout the republican period, a number of concessions were made to commoners. These concessions brought rights and benefits that this class did not enjoy and were the result of revolts. One of these concessions came about through the Canuleia Law of 445 BC. What did this law determine?

a) Allowed marriage between patricians and plebeians.

b) Ended debt bondage.

c) It limited the number of commoners summoned to form the Roman legions.

d) Put an end to forced population displacement.

e) Allowed commoners to enter politics.

The last centuries of Roman history were marked by crises and profound transformations. One of these significant changes was established with the Edict of Thessalonica, which:

a) determined the division of the empire into West and East.

b) made Christianity the official religion of the empire.

c) ended the persecution of Christians.

d) moved the Roman capital to Constantinople.

e) announced the extension of Roman citizenship to all inhabitants of the empire.

LETTER D

The Punic Wars were conflicts fought between Rome and Carthage, in three phases, stretching from 264 BC. to 146 BC The conflict was motivated by the dispute between the two cities for dominance of the Mediterranean Sea.

LETER B

The concept of barbarian peoples was inherited from the Greek peoples and designated foreign peoples. In the Roman case, any people who did not have the same values ​​and languages ​​as the Romans were seen as inferior and savage. The term barbarian was therefore a pejorative nickname.

LETER C

During the Pax Romana period, the Roman empire reached its maximum territorial extent and its economic performance was good. This period was also marked by initiatives that ensured relative internal stability to the empire.

LETER B

The Roman Republic was very marked by the clashes between plebeians and patricians. One of the most common forms of protest carried out by commoners was secessions, a kind of general strike in which they left the city. These protests allowed some improvement in the life of this class.

LETER A

The Antonine Plague began in 165 AD, when Roman troops were hit by an outbreak of smallpox. The disease took hold in Roman troops who were in Parthia, a region of Mesopotamia. The disease became a pandemic, reaching the entire territory of the Roman Empire and causing the death of about five million people.

LETTER E

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, the Gracchus brothers, were two plebeian tribunes who became known for their attempt to promote agrarian reform in the Roman Republic. The Graco brothers' proposals displeased the patricians, and both were killed on account of their initiatives.

LETTER C

According to Roman legend, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus were abandoned in a river, and found and suckled by a she-wolf. They would later have been found and raised by a shepherd, and years later Romulus founded the city of Rome. Legend also says that a disagreement between the brothers led Romulus to murder Remus.

LETER D

Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who became a slave after defecting from a Roman auxiliary force. He was eventually resold into slavery and forced to become a gladiator. Spartacus started a revolt against slavery and mistreatment in the year 73 BC. Two years later, their revolt was defeated, and the survivors were crucified by the Romans.

LETER C

It is not known exactly how this happened, but historians point out that at the end of the 7th century BC, Rome, during the monarchic period, was dominated by the Etruscans. This people, who inhabited the north of the Italian peninsula, left great contributions to the way of life of the Romans. The last Etruscan monarch was Tarquinius the Superb, dethroned in 509 BC.

LETER D

The city of Pompeii was located on the shores of Mount Vesuvius, very close to what is now the city of Naples. In the year it was destroyed, Pompeii was at the height of its economic prosperity, with around 12,000 inhabitants. A massive volcanic eruption was responsible for the destruction of the city in 79 AD.

LETER A

The Canuleia Law (Lex Canuleia , in Latin), passed in 445 BC, was a Roman law that allowed commoners to marry patricians, a social class superior to them. This law was one of the achievements obtained by commoners during the Roman Republic.

LETER B

The Edict of Thessalonica was announced by Roman Emperor Theodosius I on February 27, 380 AD. This law determined that the official religion of the Roman Empire would be Christianity and announced that polytheistic practices were prohibited from then on.