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How did Rome's varied arrangements with Italian communities help it sustain prolonged wars?
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08 Rome’s Mediterranean Expansion and Republican Crisis Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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Rome used private contractors called to collect some provincial revenues.
03
True or false
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By 146 BCE, every region in the Mediterranean was governed directly by Rome under identical administrative terms.
- A
True
- B
False
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What Latin term originally meant an official's assigned sphere of responsibility and later also referred to a territory under Roman authority?
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Which interpretation best explains why Roman expansion into the Mediterranean was not a single preplanned campaign?
- A
Rome followed one fixed plan to conquer the entire Mediterranean from the beginning.
- B
Rome expanded only through peaceful alliances and never through warfare.
- C
Victories and perceived security threats repeatedly drew Rome into new conflicts.
- D
Rome's expansion ended after it took control of Sicily.
06
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In 133 BCE, Tiberius Gracchus proposed distributing to poorer citizens.
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Select all the features that describe how the Roman Republic administered overseas territories.
- A
The Senate helped assign commands to officials.
- B
A uniform Roman bureaucracy staffed every provincial community.
- C
Magistrates could govern territories as proconsuls or propraetors after elected terms.
- D
Governors often relied on local elites and existing civic institutions.
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What title could a magistrate hold while governing an overseas territory after completing an elected term? Give either of the two titles used.
09
True or false
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The growing recruitment of citizens with little property was simply the result of one reform by Gaius Marius.
- A
True
- B
False
10
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What was the significance of Sulla marching his troops on Rome in 88 BCE?
- A
It showed that provincial governors had no military authority.
- B
It restored the custom that political disputes must be settled without force.
- C
It made military force a more direct instrument of domestic politics.
- D
It ended the Republic immediately and established Octavian as ruler.
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Select all the developments that help explain how conquest sharpened social conflict in Rome and Italy.
- A
The gains from conquest were distributed unevenly.
- B
Long military absences could put pressure on small farms.
- C
All small farmers throughout Italy uniformly lost their land to wealthy owners.
- D
Wealthy landowners expanded estates, often using enslaved labor.
12
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Which pair of events occurred in 146 BCE?
- A
Rome destroyed Carthage and Macedon in the same year.
- B
Rome destroyed Carthage and sacked Corinth in the same year.
- C
Rome destroyed Corinth and defeated Hannibal at Zama in the same year.
- D
Rome destroyed Carthage and granted it control of Sicily in the same year.
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What did Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE fail to accomplish?
- A
It restored stable republican government.
- B
It failed to restore stable republican government.
- C
It immediately established Octavian as Augustus.
- D
It ended the political rivalries that had divided Rome.
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Open ended
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Explain how Rome's Mediterranean conquests contributed to the weakening of the Republic and the emergence of Augustus's rule. In your answer, connect at least two pressures created or intensified by expansion to the political changes that followed.
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How did colonies and roads help Rome manage its military campaigns in Italy?
- A
They ensured every conquered community received Roman citizenship.
- B
They eliminated the need for military support from allied communities.
- C
They helped Rome move troops and replace losses.
- D
They allowed provincial governors to collect taxes without local institutions.
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Which outcome of the First Punic War made Sicily a landmark in Rome’s expansion beyond Italy?
- A
Carthage became Rome’s first overseas province.
- B
Rome abandoned its Italian alliances.
- C
Sicily became Rome’s first overseas province.
- D
Rome took control of Carthage itself.
17
True or false
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During Hannibal’s victories in the Second Punic War, most of Rome’s Italian allies abandoned Rome.
- A
True
- B
False
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What Latin term was used for the private contractors Rome employed to collect some revenues?
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Why did Republican provincial rule often depend on local elites and existing civic institutions?
- A
Governors worked through local elites and existing civic institutions because Rome had limited central staffing.
- B
A large permanent bureaucracy directly administered every community in the same way.
- C
Provincial communities elected all Roman magistrates who governed them.
- D
Private contractors replaced governors and administered justice throughout the provinces.
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In what year number did Rome defeat Macedon at Pydna? Enter the year number only and omit BCE.