History/ Magistrates Flashcards

(45 cards)

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What assembly elects the dictator?

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Senatus

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Absolute power in an emergency

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Dictator

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2
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How many lictors does a dictator have?

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24

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3
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Takes census of citizenry

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Censor

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4
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What assembly elects the censor?

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Centuriata

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5
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How many lictors does a censor have?

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Magistrates who handled financial matters

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Quaestor

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7
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How old must a quaestor be?

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30 years old

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8
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What assembly elects the quaestor?

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Tributa

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9
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How many lictors does a quaestor have?

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10
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The two chief magistrates

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Consul

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What assembly elects the consul?

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Centuriata

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12
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How many lictors does a consul have?

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12

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Magistrates in charge of sewers, roads, bridges, games, horse races, etc.

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Aedile

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What assembly elects the aedile?

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Tributa ( curule) and Plebis

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How many lictors does an aedile have?

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2

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16
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Magistrates who served as judges

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Praetor

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17
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What assembly elected the praetor?

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Centuriata

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How many lictors does a praetor have?

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Officials who protected the common people from oppression by aristocracy

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What assembly elects the tribunes?

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How many lictors do tribunes have?

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How long does it take to go through the cursus honorum?

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How many quaestor are there total?

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How many aedile a total?
4 : 2 plebeian aedile and 2 curule aedile
25
How many tribunes total?
10
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How many praetors total?
8
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How many consuls total?
2
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What is the sequence of offices in roman politics starting with the lowest?
Quaestor, aedile/ tribune, praetor, consul
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What is imperium?
A type of power shown through lictors
30
The sequence of offices in roman politics
Cursus honorum
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First confrontation with Hellenistic army ( 2)
Pyrrhic war
32
Roman general who used proscription lists to eliminate his opponents ( 9)
Sulla
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Victory gives Romans a continuous supply of troops ( 1)
The Latin wars
34
Period of roman history from 245 auc to the time of Augustus
Republic
35
Rome gains control of the western Mediterranean ( 4)
2 nd Punic war
36
Carthage was destroyed ( 5)
3rd Punic war
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Roman general who professionalized the army ( 7)
Marius
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Period of roman history that begins a urbe condita, 753 bc
Monarchy
39
Conflict with the senate introduces violence into roman civic life ( 6)
Gracchi
40
Italians win citizenship in defeat ( 8)
Social war
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Period of roman history that begins in the 727th anno ab urbe condita
Empire
42
Rome acquires it's first province ( 3)
1st Punic war
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List period of Rome from start to end
Monarchy, republic, empire
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What are lictors?
Guards who carry "fasces"