Order The Roman Republic and Empire

Order The Roman Republic and Empire
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Order The Roman Republic and Empire
1. All of the following helped to spread Christianity EXCEPT
(A) its acceptance as the official religion of Rome in the third
century CE
(B) the Pax Romana
(C) the Silk Road
(D) the missionary efforts of Paul of Tarsus
(E) Roman roads
2. The last Hellenistic kingdom to fall to the Romans was the
(A) Antigonid kingdom
(B) Seleucid kingdom
(C) Ptolemaic kingdom
(D) Anatolian kingdom
(E) Etruscan kingdom
3. Defeat at which battle marked the end of the Roman Empire’s
expansion into northern Europe?
(A) Teutoburg Forest
(B) Pharsalus
(C) Beth-horon
(D) Milvian Bridge
(E) Pydna
4. The First Triumvirate consisted of
(A) Jupiter, Diana, and Neptune
(B) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
(C) Livy, Ovid, and Virgil
(D) Octavian, Marc Anthony, and Lepidus
(E) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Catiline
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5. Which group invaded Rome in 410 CE and sacked the city?
(A) Huns
(B) Visigoths
(C) Gauls
(D) Ostrogoths
(E) Vandals
6. Hypatia was
(A) a mathematician who was murdered by a Christian mob
(B) the head of a guardian cult that was sacred to Roman women
(C) the daughter and only biological child of Augustus
(D) the first notable female architect to publish a book that survived
(E) the most noted Christian martyr from Diocletian’s Great Persecution
7. The Romans dated their city’s founding to the year
(A) 753 BCE
(B) 509 BCE
(C) 600 BCE
(D) 44 BCE
(E) 31 BCE
8. All of the following are true of Augustus’s reign EXCEPT that he
(A) was a patron of the arts and literature
(B) initiated a period of relative peace known as Pax Romana
(C) dramatically enlarged the empire
(D) reformed the Roman system of taxation
(E) dismantled the principate and replaced it with a new system
of government
9. The Metamorphoses was written by
(A) Virgil
(B) Horace
(C) Ovid
(D) Hypatia
(E) Martial
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10. All of the following are true of homosexuality in ancient Rome EXCEPT
that
(A) it was regarded as an ordinary part of the range of human experience
(B) men’s acceptance of a passive role was considered worthy of contempt
(C) Roman emperors remained heterosexual to bolster the family
structure of the Roman state
(D) male writers of books and legal codes were not as interested
in lesbianism as in male love
(E) legislation against homosexuality did not become common until
the reign of the Christian emperors
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