Classics__GP5_End of the Republic

Question 1

________ were aristrocrats or wealthy plebicians who relied on the plebian assemblies and the power of the tribure for their political power.

Answer 1

Popluares

Question 1

Despite the, Europe and the Mediterranean entered a period of peace and prosperity called the ____ _____

Answer 1

Pax Romana

Question 2

Antony built his forces in east primarily in _____ and ______. He allied with the powerful Egyptian pharoah ______.

Answer 2

Greece; Egypt, Cleopatra

Question 2

Octavian built his power in ____, _____ and ____.

Answer 2

Italy; Gaul; Spain.

Question 2

In 31 BCE, their forces met at the ______ __ ____.

Answer 2

Battle of Actium

Question 2

hot or steamroom

Answer 2

Caldarium

Question 2

Augustus wanted people to believe that Rome was returning to the ______ _______, the time of heroes like Romulus and Remus

Answer 2

Golden Age

Question 3

Some people think his mother ______, elimiated all possible rivals until Tiberius was the only choice left.

Answer 3

Livia

Question 4

Octavian was given the name ______ and he took for himself all the powers of consul, censor, and tribune!

Answer 4

Augustus

Question 5

Caeser led an army against the ____ in France and conquered a great deal of territory. But this was was NOT sanctioned by the Senate

Answer 5

Gauls

Question 6

Julius Cesat, like all Roman Generals, was forbidded to bring his army across the _____ _____, north of Rome.

Answer 6

Rubicon River

Question 6

In ____ ____, Julius Caeser held ultimate power in Rome. But a secret conspiracy was growing among the surviving optimates.

Answer 6

44 BCE

Question 7

________ succeeded his stepfather, Augustus, as emperor but he didn’t want to!

Answer 7

Tiberius

Question 9

, thick, fire-proof, wall that separated the new forum from the ______, the poorest neighborhood in Rome.

Answer 9

subura

Question 10

Populares

Answer 10

“men of the people”

Question 10

Caeser defeated the last king of Gaul, __________, at the Battle of Alesia in 52 BCE . Rome now controlled all of Gaul.

Answer 10

Vercingetorix

Question 10

warm room

Answer 10

Tepidarium

Question 12

Unlike Augustus, Tiberius accepted the title of _____ as well as _____.

Answer 12

imperator, princeps

Question 13

In order to pay for his political career, Caeser had borrowed huge sums of money from _____ ___ _____/

Answer 13

Crassus the Rich

Question 15

In all there were ____ Julio-Claudian emperors. Not all directly related.

Answer 15

Five

Question 16

cold room

Answer 16

Frigidarium

Question 17

shopping, library, eating and everything else room

Answer 17

Palestra

Question 18

Pompey had married Caeser’s daugher ______ , but she died in 54 BCE.

Answer 18

Julia

Question 19

The ______ believed that the Senate should hold the most power in Rome

Answer 19

optimates

Question 20

In order to keep the peace, the three most powerful men in Rome formed a _____ to share power.

Answer 20

triumvirate

Question 22

Julius Caeser named himself ______ for life and said the he wanted to restore th Repulic---- but did he?

Answer 22

dictator

Question 23

Augustus also built the _____ \_\_\_\_ (the" _____ of\_\_\_\_\_\_\_") as a birthday present for his wife \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 23

Ara Pacis; Altar of Peace: Livia

Question 25

The Ara pacis is decorated with a ______ that shows the family of Augustus and Livia, the Julii and the Claudii gentes, whom we call the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 25

frieze; Julio-Claudians

Question 26

dressing room

Answer 26

Apodyterium

Question 27

Under Augustus, the Senate _____ \_\_\_ __ \_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_, but so did the plebian assemblies. Power was held by Augustus alone.

Answer 27

lost much of its authority

Question 28

In the decades following the murder of the Gracchi brothers, two factions developed in Roman politics: the ______ and the \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 28

optimates; populares

Question 29

Crassus wanted to be the equal of Caeser and Pmpey, and so he bought an army and led it towards the _____ \_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 29

Parthian Empire

Question 30

\_\_\_\_ ___ \_\_\_\_\_, a plebian consul, and optimate, raised an army to fight Julius Caeser. It was a civil war for control of Rome!

Answer 30

Pompey the Great

Question 32

Optimates

Answer 32

"the best men"

Question 33

He rebuilt the Roman Forum, and also built his own Forum Augustus complete with a ______ \_\_ ______ \_\_\_\_\_\_ ("\_\_\_\_\_ the \_\_\_\_\_\_")

Answer 33

Temple of Mars Ultor; Mars the Avenger

Question 34

\_\_\_ ______ was a patrician populares, He was born to the old and influential Julii family, but they had fallen on hard times.

Answer 34

Julius Caeser

Question 35

Augustus called himself \_\_\_\_\_\_, not king or emperor. ______ means "the chief citizen".

Answer 35

Princeps; princeps

Question 36

With Caseser dead, there was a power vacuum. Into that vacuum stepped Caeser's adopted son, Gaius ______ and Caeser's second in command ______ \_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 36

Octavian; Marcus Antonius

Question 38

swimming pool

Answer 38

Nautatio

Question 39

The conspirators, including ______ and ______ attacked Caeser in front of the bust of Pompey.

Answer 39

Cassius; Brutus

Question 41

The first triumvirate was _____ \_\_\_\_\_, ______ \_\_\_ ___ and ____ \_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 41

Julius Caeser, Pompey the Great, Carssus the Rich.

Question 42

Augustus made many changes in Rome. First he reorganized the city into ______ \_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 42

sixteen regions

Question 43

He even hired poets to write about the Golden Age. One of them was \_\_\_\_\_. He wrote the poem known as the \_\_\_\_\_. In it \_\_\_\_\_\_, sees a vision under Augustus and likes it.

Answer 43

Vergil; Aeneid; Aeneid