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Ch 8 Test 8th World history
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  • 1. a form of government in which its citizens vote for its leader
A) Etruscans
B) republic
C) legion
D) Aeneas
E) Apennines
  • 2. the Trojan hero of the epic the Aeneid
A) legion
B) Etruscans
C) republic
D) Aeneas
E) Apennines
  • 3. a people that played a major role in shaping Roman civiliza
A) Aeneas
B) legion
C) Etruscans
D) Apennines
E) republic
  • 4. the mountain range that runs the length of Italy
A) Aeneas
B) Apennines
C) Etruscans
D) republic
E) legion
  • 5. a group of 6,000 soldiers
A) Aeneas
B) legion
C) Etruscans
D) republic
E) Apennines
  • 6. a large farming estate
A) Cicero
B) triumvirate
C) Julius Caesar
D) latifundia
E) Actium
  • 7. the battle in which Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra
A) Julius Caesar
B) Actium
C) triumvirate
D) Cicero
E) latifundia
  • 8. Rome’s greatest public speaker
A) Cicero
B) latifundia
C) triumvirate
D) Julius Caesar
E) Actium
  • 9. a political alliance of three people
A) latifundia
B) Cicero
C) Julius Caesar
D) Actium
E) triumvirate
  • 10. military hero and Rome’s most famous leader
A) Julius Caesar
B) triumvirate
C) Actium
D) latifundia
E) Cicero
  • 11. a “good emperor” who built a wall in Britain
A) Actium
B) Julius Caesar
C) latifundia
D) Hadrian
E) Cicero
  • 12. human-made channel for carrying water long distances
A) Cicero
B) Actium
C) aqueduct
D) triumvirate
E) Julius Caesar
  • 13. a system of money
A) Cicero
B) currency
C) Actium
D) triumvirate
E) latifundia
  • 14. he came after Tiberius and before Claudius
A) Caligula
B) Cicero
C) triumvirate
D) Julius Caesar
E) latifundia
  • 15. means “Roman Peace”
A) latifundia
B) Julius Caesar
C) Actium
D) Pax Romana
E) triumvirate
  • 16. What geographical advantage does the Italian landscape have over the Greek landscape?
A) more trees
B) better climate
C) less rugged mountains
D) plenty of water
  • 17. Traditional legend says that Romulus and Remus founded the city of
A) Aeneas
B) Sicily
C) Latium
D) Rome
  • 18. The Romans overthrew the ____ and set up the republican form of government where people were treated fairly.
A) Greeks
B) Etruscans
C) Latins
D) Tarquins
  • 19. The Etruscans were skilled in.
A) sports
B) metalworking
C) farming
D) tomb painting.
  • 20. In addition to being tough and good fighters, Roman soldiers were also
A) skilled at swordplay.
B) successful farmers.
C) practical problem solvers.
D) good with money.
  • 21. The ruling class and top officials of the Roman Republic were the
A) nobles
B) plebeians
C) patricians
D) consuls
  • 22. In 494 B.C., many Roman plebeians ____ to protest for equal rights.
A) stopped paying taxes
B) moved to another country
C) went on strike
D) burned government buildings
  • 23. The best-known early Roman dictator of the Republic was
A) Livy
B) Cincinnatus
C) Remus
D) Romulus
  • 24. Adopted around 451 B.C., Rome’s first code of law was called the
A) New Roman Law.
B) Rule of Law.
C) Forum
D) Twelve Tables.
  • 25. Rome fought ____ in the Punic Wars for control of the Mediterranean region.
A) Sicily
B) Carthage
C) Phoenicia
D) Greece
  • 26. Two prominent brothers, ____, worked to bring reforms to the early Republic.
A) Marius and Sulla
B) Tiberius and Gaius
C) Pompey and Crassus
D) Antony and Marcus
  • 27. Julius Caesar was seen as a ____ by Rome’s lower classes.
A) hero
B) landowner
C) leader
D) priest
  • 28. The ____ is a reform of Julius Caesar’s that affects us today.
A) public jobs program
B) end of slave labor
C) military-run government
D) 12-month calendar
  • 29. The members of Rome’s Second Triumvirate were Lepidus, Antony, and
A) Cleopatra
B) Cicero
C) Octavian
D) Augustus
  • 30. The great public speaker Cicero called for a representative government with limited powers and was against
A) the Greeks.
B) dictators
C) citizenship rights.
D) republican government.
  • 31. The reign of Augustus began a long era of ____ that lasted about 200 years.
A) political stability
B) tax reform
C) peace
D) rebuilding
  • 32. This musical emperor is said to have “fiddled while Rome burned” in A.D. 64.
A) Caligula
B) Tiberius
C) Claudius
D) Nero
  • 33. Emperor Vespasian began construction of this famous Roman sporting site.
A) the aqueduct
B) Hadrian’s Wall
C) Mount Vesuvius
D) the Colosseum
  • 34. Under Emperor Trajan, the Roman Empire’s European boundaries were set at these two rivers.
A) the Thames and Huang He
B) the Rhine and Danube
C) the Tigris and Seine
D) the Nile and Indus
  • 35. The most important element in Rome’s booming economy was
A) agriculture
B) glass making.
C) metalworking
D) pottery
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