HIEU 201 UPDATED SCRIPT 2026
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● 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.
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● 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.
