Roman Republic/Empire/Early Middle Ages Test

Question 1

Prior to the Founding of the Roman Republic, Rome was Ruled by this.

Answer 1

Etruscan King

Question 2

This was the main site of fighting during the First Punic War

Answer 2

Sicily

Question 3

Magistrates elected by the Plebeians.

Answer 3

Tribunes

Question 4

This began as a council of noble elders advising the Etruscan King.

Answer 4

Senate

Question 5

This was the underlying principle for Roman law.

Answer 5

Concept of Natural Rights

Question 6

The opponent of Rome during the Punic Wars.

Answer 6

Carthage

Question 7

The Carthaginian general who brought the Second Punic War to the gates of Rome.

Answer 7

Hannibal

Question 8

The men who were Patricians in the early Roman Republic

Answer 8

Wealthy Landowners

Question 9

The chief Magistrates of the Roman Republic.

Answer 9

Consuls

Question 10

The Romans used this mans alliance with Carthage as an excuse to launch a war in the east.

Answer 10

Philip of Macedonia

Question 11

These were huge agricultural estates

Answer 11

Latifundia

Question 12

This man did not aspire to Roman political domination.

Answer 12

Cicero

Question 13

Sulla took power by defeating the supporters of this man.

Answer 13

Marius

Question 14

The First Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey, and this man

Answer 14

Julius Caesar

Question 15

This was the most important source of information on the life of Jesus.

Answer 15

Four Gospels of the New Testament

Question 16

Diocletian’s system of divided rule

Answer 16

Tetrarchy

Question 17

The followers of Jesus before the conversion of Paul of Tarsus

Answer 17

Hellenized Jews

Question 18

Before Augustus, this was an honorific term for a general who had won a major victory.

Answer 18

Imperator

Question 19

A period of lawlessness, civil war, and endemic violence followed the death of this man.

Answer 19

Marcus Aurelius

Question 20

The main theme of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

Answer 20

Greatness of the Republic

Question 21

They wanted to Expel the Romans from Judea

Answer 21

The Zealots

Question 22

He wasn’t a Julio-Claudian Emperor

Answer 22

Hadrian

Question 23

He believed that Christian teachings should be proclaimed to all

Answer 23

Paul of Tarsus

Question 24

They ruled Rome for fifty years after Augustus’s Death

Answer 24

Julio-Claudians

Question 25

Galilee, which is where Jesus was raised, was a stronghold for them.

Answer 25

Zealots

Question 26

Christianity was legalized by this emperor.

Answer 26

Constantine

Question 27

Augustus made this institution permanent and professional.

Answer 27

The Army

Question 28

The Legend of Aeneas is about what?

Answer 28

The Founding of Rome

Question 29

He believed that a well-ordered Christian society depended on the cooperation of secular and religious authorities

Answer 29

Ambrose of Milan

Question 30

They believed that Christ’s nature was inferior to God’s

Answer 30

Arians

Question 31

The greatest historian in the Byzantine Empire.

Answer 31

Procopius

Question 32

The word “Catholic” derives from the meaning of this Greek word.

Answer 32

Universal

Question 33

The Pope that the Christianization of Europe began under.

Answer 33

Pope Gegory I

Question 34

Where St. Augustine was born

Answer 34

North Africa

Question 35

They were manuals that guided the assignment of penance.

Answer 35

Penitentials

Question 36

Why the book “The Rule of Saint Benedict” was so successful.

Answer 36

The Moderation and Adaptability

Question 37

The monks that formed Colonies in Egypt in the third century

Answer 37

Hermits

Question 38

The Romans labeled all people living outside the empire as this.

Answer 38

Barbarians

Question 39

A Germanic people

Answer 39

Goths

Question 40

This church usually gets the title “Orthodox Church”.

Answer 40

Eastern Christian Church