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Roman Citizenship

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Christianity

Roman Emperors

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Topic 1: 1 pointThe right to vote, but

not as individual, but instead as a tribe.

What is suffragium?

Topic 1: 2 pointsThis Roman magistracy

was held by two elected officials who held the highest military command in times of war, and one could be appointed dictator in times of emergency. Marius, Sulla, Caesar, and Pompey all held this office. What is the consul?

Topic 1: 3 pointsHe held the legal

authority over the family property and held power of decisions pertaining to familial life and death.

Who is the paterfamilias?

Topic 1: 4 pointsThe type of Roman

slave who had been abandoned as a child and raised into chattel (slavery).

What is alumni?

Topic 1: 5 pointsThere were two types

of this magistrate: urbanus and peregrines.

What is praetor?

Topic 2: 1 pointNero began his

persecution of Christians after blaming them for this event in 64 C.E.

What is a fire?

Topic 2: 2 pointsHe started the first

Christian Church in the city of Rome, is believed to be the first pope, and was crucified upside down as depicted here.

Who is Peter?

Topic 2: 3 pointsTo identify themselves to

one another, a Christian would draw the line seen below with his foot, while the other would complete the drawing to create an image of this.

What is a fish?

Topic 2: 4 pointsThis was held in 325

C.E. to organize and formalize Christian beliefs, which included the divinity of Jesus and Holy Trinity.

What is the Council of Nicaea?

Topic 2: 5 pointsThis edict proclaimed

religious tolerance throughout the Roman Empire.

What is the Edict of Milan?

Topic 3: 1 pointHe made his horse co-

consul and pontifex maximus, while also turning a wing of the imperial palace into a brothel.

What is Caligula?

Topic 3: 2 pointsUnder this “divine”

emperor’s reign, Roman women who gave birth to three or more children were granted property & inheritance rights . Who is Augustus

Caesar?

Topic 3: 3 pointsHe divided the empire

into East and West, created a tetrarchy, and mandated that sons hold the same profession as their fathers and that Christians be removed from the army.

Who is Diocletian?

Topic 3: 4 pointsThe emperor who

claimed to have had the vision depicted in this painting.

Who is Constantine?

Topic 3: 5 pointsOne of the five good

emperors, he tore down Nero’s “Golden House,” and built the column seen here, as well as a new forum.

Who is Trajan?

Topic 4: 1 pointThe Roman

engineering achievement seen here.

What are aqueducts?

Topic 4: 2 pointsRomans developed

this artistic medium.

What are mosaics?

Topic 4: 3 pointsDepicting the

praetorian guard, this piece of art was made using this Roman technique.

What is bas relief?

Topic 4: 4 pointsRomans overlapped

arches to create this architectural feature.

What is a dome?

Topic 4: 5 pointsThe retractable

“roof”on the Colosseum.

What is the velarium?

Topic 5: 1 pointThe class of

commoners in Rome.

Who are plebeians?

Topic 5: 2 pointsHe crossed the

Rubicon in 49 B.C.E. and was appointed dictator for life in 44 B.C.E., a position that he would only hold for two months. Being stabbed 23 times limits one’s lifetime appointment.

Who is Gaius Julius Caesar?

Topic 5: 3 pointsThis uncle of Julius

Caesar and populares consul burned down the house of Sulla and recruited among Rome’s impoverished to serve in his army. Who is Marius?

Topic 5: 4 pointsOctavian, Antony, and

Lepidus formed this political alliance after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

What is the Second Triumvirate?

Topic 5: 5 pointsBoth assassinated for

their efforts, these brothers attempted to pass land reforms and a redistribution of wealth to the plebeians. Who are the Gracchi

Brothers (Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus &

Gaius Sempronious Gracchus)?

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Category: Final War of the Republic

This battle in 31 B.C.E. ended the Final War of the

Republic when Agrippa defeated Anthony.

What is the Battle of Actium?