Final

Question 1

Positive role of slave labor

Answer 1

Allowed elite class to gain wealth

Question 2

Negative role of slave labor

Answer 2

 Treatment of slaves was brutal and they had limited rights 

Question 3

Religious cause of the Jewish revolt 

Answer 3

Romans violated many Jewish customs and sacked the temple for taxes Roman rule went against covenant 

Question 4

Economic cause of the Jewish revolt 

Answer 4

Poor Jewish farmers were heavily taxed by the Romans and had to pay high rents to wealthy landowners.

Question 5

Political cause of the Jewish revolt 

Answer 5

Rome took power away from religious leaders and put Romans in charge this made Jewish mad because they believed they were the chosen ones and the land belong to them 

Question 6

Positive views of the Roman empire 

Answer 6

Rome brought peace order and under Augustus the empire saw
stability 
Call contributions like architecture and law roads and legal reforms 

Question 7

Negative views of the Roman empire

Answer 7

Conquered all through military power, erased other cultures and enslaved most non-Romans Rome wiped out entire civilizations like the destruction of Carthage
Social inequality, publians and patricians and brainwash the Roman youth to make rooms history better 

Question 8

Positive role of plight of the plebeian class

Answer 8

Struggle of public and led to important reform such as tribune of the plebs conflict of the orders, force the rolling elite to address public and concerns, and the establishment of the 12 tables was a response to public and demands 

Question 9

Negative role of plight of the plebeian class

Answer 9

Poor farmers that often lived in harsh conditions many were forced into debt and sold into slavery, social issues, the Gracci brother reforms for land distribution but both killed by Senate

Question 10

Positive causes for the decline of the Roman republic and rise of the empire

Answer 10

I love you the Roman military success expanded Rome’s territory generals like Pompeii and Cesar contributed to Rome’s influence and power

Question 11

Negative causes for the decline of the Roman republic in the rise of the empire 

Answer 11

Soldiers serve generals rather than republic and political assassination lead to a different view of political conflict 

Question 12

Causes for the decline and fall of the Roman empire 

Answer 12

Roman empires were always scared of being assassinated, constant fighting at the borders, tax, inflation, barbarians, economic instability, such as heavy taxation and instability of leaders

Question 13

Positive Greek influence on Rome

Answer 13

Stoicism influenced the legal system and gave it a quality cultural/artistic influenced Roman art architecture and philosophy, such as Greek sculpture literature in theater, specifically the construction of Roman buildings

Question 14

Negative Greek influence on Rome

Answer 14

The Romans often saw themselves as superior to the Greeks and frequently undermined Greek influence