HIEU 201 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Plebeian concessions during the Struggle of the Orders included all
of the following EXCEPT
Answer: the institution of an Athenian-style democracy.
●● Despite reforms made during the Struggle of the Orders, Rome
remained an oligarchy because
Answer: patronage networks of wealthy families controlled the
government
●● The assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C.
Answer: was carried out by people who saw themselves as loyal
defenders of the Republic against Caesar's ambitions.
●● War between Rome and Carthage began because Rome feared
Carthage's designs on
Answer: Sicily.
●● The influx of slaves into Italy in the first century B.C.
Answer: was so great that, by 50 B.C., they constituted one-third of
Italy's population.
,●● The most influential philosophy in Rome was
Answer: Stoicism.
●● Rome's conquest of the Hellenistic world resulted in
Answer: Roman adoption of the Greek humanist thought.
●● Between 205 B.C. and 148 B.C., Rome fought three wars agains
Answer: Macedonia.
●● After Carthage's stunning victory at the battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
Answer: Rome invaded North Africa, forcing the Carthaginian general
Hannibal to withdraw his troops from Italy
●● The tension that erupted in the Struggle of the Orders stemmed from
plebeian grievances including
Answer: enslavement for debt.
●● The Senate responded to the challenge posed by the Gracchi by
Answer: killing them
●● The crisis in agriculture in the late Republic was a result of
, Answer: the plebeians' loss of their farms to larger and wealthier
landowners due to wartime devastation, debt incurred during the war,
and increasing reliance on slave labor of those conquered in foreign
wars.
●● The overseas expansion of Rome led to social and economic
changes, which included
Answer: the rise of a business class whose sources of wealth included
army supply contracts and tax collecting.
●● The Romans treated the Italian peoples they conquered
Answer: as potential allies, to be integrated into Roman society.
●● The first stage of Roman expansion was the
Answer: uniting of the Italian peninsula
●● Roman Stoics
Answer: believed that moral values were obtained from reason alone
●● The Pax Romana was characterized by the
Answer: prevalence of peace in the Mediterranean world without any
foreign wars or internal revolts
GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
●● Plebeian concessions during the Struggle of the Orders included all
of the following EXCEPT
Answer: the institution of an Athenian-style democracy.
●● Despite reforms made during the Struggle of the Orders, Rome
remained an oligarchy because
Answer: patronage networks of wealthy families controlled the
government
●● The assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 B.C.
Answer: was carried out by people who saw themselves as loyal
defenders of the Republic against Caesar's ambitions.
●● War between Rome and Carthage began because Rome feared
Carthage's designs on
Answer: Sicily.
●● The influx of slaves into Italy in the first century B.C.
Answer: was so great that, by 50 B.C., they constituted one-third of
Italy's population.
,●● The most influential philosophy in Rome was
Answer: Stoicism.
●● Rome's conquest of the Hellenistic world resulted in
Answer: Roman adoption of the Greek humanist thought.
●● Between 205 B.C. and 148 B.C., Rome fought three wars agains
Answer: Macedonia.
●● After Carthage's stunning victory at the battle of Cannae (216 B.C.)
Answer: Rome invaded North Africa, forcing the Carthaginian general
Hannibal to withdraw his troops from Italy
●● The tension that erupted in the Struggle of the Orders stemmed from
plebeian grievances including
Answer: enslavement for debt.
●● The Senate responded to the challenge posed by the Gracchi by
Answer: killing them
●● The crisis in agriculture in the late Republic was a result of
, Answer: the plebeians' loss of their farms to larger and wealthier
landowners due to wartime devastation, debt incurred during the war,
and increasing reliance on slave labor of those conquered in foreign
wars.
●● The overseas expansion of Rome led to social and economic
changes, which included
Answer: the rise of a business class whose sources of wealth included
army supply contracts and tax collecting.
●● The Romans treated the Italian peoples they conquered
Answer: as potential allies, to be integrated into Roman society.
●● The first stage of Roman expansion was the
Answer: uniting of the Italian peninsula
●● Roman Stoics
Answer: believed that moral values were obtained from reason alone
●● The Pax Romana was characterized by the
Answer: prevalence of peace in the Mediterranean world without any
foreign wars or internal revolts
