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In what year did Cicero serve as consul?

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63 BC

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In what year did Saturninus die?

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100 BC

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What Latin tribe fights against Sulla at Colline Gate in 82 BC?

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Samnites

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What consul of 63 BC stopped Catiline from overthrowing the Republic with a series of speeches against him?

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Cicero

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Who convinces Bocchus, the father of Jugurtha, to betray him to the Romans in 105 BC?

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Sulla

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What cousin of Tiberius Gracchus led the mob revolt to kill him in 133 BC?

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Scipio Nasica

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What “final decree” did the Senate pass giving Lucius Opimius power to stop Gaius Gracchus at all costs?

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Senatus Consultum Ultimum

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Whose assassination precipitated the Social War in 91 BC?

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Livius Drusus

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In 73 BC, what Thracian slave begins a slave revolt in Capua until it was subdued by Crassus?

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Spartacus

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Following the Lex Iulia, what did the Lex Plautia Papiria of 89 BC do?

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Gave citizens who rebelled during the Social War citizenship

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Over what was the Social War fought?

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Citizenship for non-Roman Italians

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What two men were both novi homines from Arpinum?

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Marius & Cicero

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In what two years did Pompey & Crassus serve as co-consuls?

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70 & 55 BC

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What two men served as co-consuls in 55 BC?

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Pompey & Crassus

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What tribune transfers the command against Mithridates VI from Sulla to Marius in 88 BC?

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Sulpicius Rufus

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In what year did Catiline try to overthrow the Republic?

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63 BC

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What title is given to Cicero after he stopped Catiline from overthrowing the Republic in 63 BC?

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Pater Patriae

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Who flees to the grove of Furina on the Janiculum Hill and committed suicide to avoid persecution from Lucius Opimius?

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Gaius Gracchus

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Scipio Nasica led the mob to kill what tribune of 133 BC?

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Tiberius Gracchus

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Who posted lists of people he wanted killed in his stint as dictator following the battle of Colline Gate in 82 BC?

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Sulla

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In what year was the battle of Aquae Sextiae?

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102 BC

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Who defeats both the Cimbri and Teutones in battles of 102 and 101 BC?

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Gaius Marius

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Sulpicius Rufus transfers the command against Mithridates from Sulla to what man in 88 BC?

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Marius

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What tribune was killed in 100 BC by the forces of Marius?

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Saturninus

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What longtime enemy of Rome commits suicide at Panticapaeum in 63 BC?
Mithridates VI
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Gaius Marius was a **novus homo** from Arpinum. What is a **novus homo**?
First member of his family to hold the consulship
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At what battle were Servilius Caepio and Mallius Maximus destroyed by the Cimbri and Teutones in 105 BC?
Arausio
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What Numidian king is defeated by Marius and Sulla in 105 BC?
Jugurtha
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In what year was Marius consul for the last time?
86 BC
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At what battle against the Samnites does Sulla solidify his control of Rome?
Colline Gate
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What man puts down Spartacus's slave revolt in 71 BC?
Crassus
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Who solidifies his control of Rome at Colline Gate in 82 BC?
Sulla
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What Mauretanian leader does Sulla convince to betray his son Jugurtha to the Romans in 105 BC?
Bocchus I
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What Greek city does Sulla siege in 86 BC?
Athens
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Who bequeaths his kingdom of Pergamum to Rome in 133 BC?
Attalus III
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Who was given the right to stop Saturninus via a Senatus Consultum Ultimum in 100 BC?
Marius
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Whose land reform was vetoed by Marcus Octavius in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
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In what year was Tiberius Gracchus elected tribune?
133 BC
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Where do a group of slaves in 73 BC begin a revolt led by Spartacus?
Capua
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Mithridates VI was king of what ancient region in modern day Turkey?
Pontus
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In what year was the battle of Arausio?
105 BC
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What law of 66 BC transferred command against Mithridates VI from Lucullus to Pompey?
Lex Manilia
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At what battle does Gaius Marius defeat the Teutones in 102 BC?
Aquae Sextiae
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In the Third Mithridatic War, who was initially given command against Mithridates until the Lex Manilia transferred command to Pompey in 66 BC?
(Licinius) Lucullus
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What Armenian king does Lucullus defeat at Tigranocerta in 69 BC?
Tigranes the Great
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What did the Lex Iulia of 90 BC do?
Offered Roman citizenship to Italians who had not fought against Rome in the Social War
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What tribe does Marius defeat at Vercellae in 101 BC?
Cimbri
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What proconsul of Hispania held out against Sulla until he was assassinated by Marcus Perperna in 72 BC?
Sertorius
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What war lasted from 91-88 BC?
Social War
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As tribune of 133 BC, who tried to push land reforms reinstating that no citizen should be able to hold over 500 iugera of land?
Tiberius Gracchus
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What nickname did Cornelia call her sons, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus?
her jewels
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Who was first given command against Mithridates VI before Sulpicius Rufus transfers the command to Marius in 88 BC?
Sulla
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During the Second Mithridatic War, what Roman leads the charge against Mithrades VI from 83-81 BC?
Licinius Murena
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What nickname is given to Sulla on account of his luck?
Felix
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By way of the Lex Manilia, who gains command against Mithridates VI during the Third Macedonian War in 66 BC?
Pompey
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What two tribes worked together to destroy Servilius Caepio and Mallius Maximus at the battle of Arausio in 105 BC?
Cimbri & Teutones
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Adherbal, Hiempsal, and Jugurtha all sought control of Numidia after what king's death in 118 BC?
Micipsa
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Who marches on Rome after losing command against Mithridates VI to Marius in 88 BC?
Sulla
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The Treaty of Dardanus ended Roman conflict with what Pontic king in 85 BC?
Mithridates VI
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Although they would grow to be enemies later, what two men worked together to take down Jugurtha in 105 BC?
Marius & Sulla
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What name is given to the political party which favored the tribunate and the assemblies of the people?
Populares
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After beating out his stepbrothers Hiempsal and Adherbal, who gained control of Numidia in 112 BC?
Jugurtha
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What two men served as co-consuls in 70 BC?
Pompey & Crassus
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In what year was the battle of Colline Gate?
82 BC
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In what year was Marius consul for the first time?
107 BC
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What tribe does Marius defeat at Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC?
Teutones
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How many times was Gaius Marius consul?
7 times
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What fellow tribune vetoed Tiberius Gracchus's land reform law in 133 BC?
Marcus Octavius
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Who was tribune in 123 and 122 BC?
Gaius Gracchus
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Who is executed in the Tullianum (Mamertine Prison) in 104 BC after he was betrayed by his father Bocchus I?
Jugurtha
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Who decisively defeats Mithridates at the battle of Nicopolis in 66 BC?
Pompey
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In 63 BC, who tries to overthrow the Republic until Cicero intervenes?
Catiline
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What consul of 121 BC was the main political enemy of Gaius Gracchus?
Lucius Opimius
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Where do Gaius Marius and Lutatius Catulus defeat the Cimbri in 101 BC?
Vercellae
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What name is given to the political party filled with rich traditionalists who wished to limit the power of the popular assemblies and tribunate?
Optimates
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Where was Jugurtha executed in 104 BC?
Tullianum / Mamertine Prison
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What "final decree" did the Senate pass giving Gaius Marius the right to stop Saturninus?
Senatus Consultum Ultimum
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Calling the Gracchi brothers "her jewels", what woman is the mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus?
Cornelia
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What famous Roman is the grandfather of the Gracchi brothers?
Scipio Africanus
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What kingdom does Attalus III bequeath to Rome in 133 BC?
Pergamum
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Who was tribune in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
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Gaius Marius was from what town?
Arpinum
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80,000 people died as part of what foreign king's Asiatic Vespers in 88 BC?
Mithridates VI
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What consul dies in 84 BC by a mutiny of his own troops?
Cinna
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Where did Gaius Gracchus want to settle a new colony called Junonia?
Carthage

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