Western Civilization Chapter 5

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According to the patria potestas provision of the Twelve Tables, a Roman father:
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Had absolute power over his family, up to and including the power of life and death.
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After Rome had twice defeated Carthage, a third Punic War:
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Was provoked by war hawks who thought Carthage must be destroyed.
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Central to Roman identity was a conservatism expressed in an unwritten code of:
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mos maiorum.
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Cicero, one of the most famous Stoics of the later republic, believed in all the tenets of Stoicism except:
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Withdrawal from public life.
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Cultural and intellectual developments in republican Rome reached their pinnacle during:
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The Principate
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During the early Roman Republic, Rome:
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Expanded slowly and extended the Latin Right to many of the cities it conquered.
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In the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar, the second triumvirate took out its revenge on everyone opposed to them; one of the more prominent victims of the second triumvirate was:
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Cicero
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Once the Romans had effectively gained control of Italy (265 B.C.E.):
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They started a series of wars for control of the western Mediterranean
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One of the things the Romans borrowed from the Greek settlers in southern Italy was:
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Their alphabet.
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Prior to Julius Caesar's appointment as "Dictator for Life," only one other Roman had been appointed to that position without the traditional six-month term, and he was:
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Sulla.
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Prior to the establishment of Rome as the dominant state in Italy:
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Etruscans, skilled metalworkers and artists, lived there.
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Roman law consisted of three branches: civil law, natural law, and:
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The law of nations
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The Augustan system of government:
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Is known as the early empire or Principate, because Octavian ruled as first citizen.
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The Latin Right of the early Romans guaranteed that:
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Latin residents could move and receive rights of citizenship in their new homes.
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The Mediterranean world was romanized by all of the following except:
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the imposition of Roman values on those conquered by force.
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The Romans were able to support cities with large populations due, in no small measure, to the:
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Construction of a system of aqueducts to allow a steady supply of potable water to the cities.
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The Romans were the first people to use _________ on a massive scale in their buildings.
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Concrete
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The Twelve Tables of Law, approved in 450 B.C.E., represent:
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The codification of existing laws for all to see and obey.
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The division between Roman patricians and plebeians was:
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Between the wealthiest (2 percent) and the rest (98 percent) of the people.
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The equestrian order was populated with:
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Wealthy men engaged in commerce.
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The geographic site of Rome has many advantages, including:
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A ford across the Tiber River that made the city a natural crossroads.
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The ideal citizen of the early Roman republic was thought to be:
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A soldier-farmer.
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Those who ruled Rome from 96 to 180 C.E. were called the "Five Good Emperors" because:
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They were capable administrators who governed successfully.
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Tiberius Gracchus sought to protect small farmers and the pool of citizens from which the army could be drawn by reviving old laws from the republican days that limited the amount of land a person could hold; for this he was:
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Murdered.
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Traditional Roman religion included ancestor worship and:
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Worship of the Roman state gods.