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WH 6.2-Fall of Repub
6.2 Fall of the Republic and the Emergence of the Empire
Question | Answer |
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6.2Explain legacy left by the Roman general Marius | Created a new system of military recuritment-recruited volunteers from urban and rural poor who owned no property. Loyalty to general-not Roman state and promise them land. |
6.2List the circumstances that led to the collapse of the Roman Republic | 1. competition for power by individuals;2. Civil war caused by their conflicts |
6.2Describe the problems of the early Roman Empire | 1. After Augustus, emporers took back responsibilities that had been given to the Senate--emporers grew mor powerful and corrupt. 2. No system for selecting anew emporer--could be made and deposed by Roman legions |
6.2Julio-Claudian Dynasty | AugustusTiberiusCaligulaClaudiusNero |
6.2Five Good Emporers | NervaTrajanHadrianAntoninus PiusMarcus Aurelius |
6.2 Emporers of the Late Roman Empire | DiocletianConstantine |
6.2Last Western Emporer | Romulus Augustulus |
6.2Arbitrary executions | executions committed solely by the choce of the emperor |
6.2Domestic policies | government rules and regulations that affected the people of the Roman Empire |
6.2 Was Caesar wounded by the physical attack alone? | Caesar's assassins were friends or pardoned enemies, people he knew and with whom he ad worked and fought. Wounded emotionally ans well as physically. |
6.2Was the assasination of Caesar carefully planned or done in the heat of the moment? | The murder was carefully planned, the date selected in advance. All participants agreed to strike a blow-they were all equally guilty. |
6.2 What is consumption oriented society | desired luxeries that were wanted rather than needed, which the wealthy Romans could afford. |
6.2First Triumvirate | government by Caesar, Crassus and Pompey |
6.2Imperator | Commander in Chief |
6.2Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus | Two brothers who believed that the basic cause of Rome's problems was the decline of the small farmer. They were eventually killed by the landowners. |
6.2Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Roman general who used his army to gain control of Rome in 82 BC and institute a regin of terro to wipe out opposition. |
6.2Crassus | richest man in Rome, part of the First Triumvirate, killed in battle |
6.2Pompey | member of the First Triumvirate; miliatry hero |
6.2What was the military legacy left by Marius? | armies loyal to their generals and genrals politically active to provide land for their men. |
6.2The name of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey's powerful governmental coalition | First Triumverate |
6.2Who was a popular ruler that was given title of Imperator | Augustus |
6.2Augustus was a popular rule who was given a title by the senate. | imperator |
6.2 What happened to Crassus? | killed in battle |
6.2 What happened to Pompey | defeated by Caesar |
6.2What is meant by Pax Romana? | Period of five good emporers |
6.2 What conditions made it possible for the Pax Romana? | Peas, prsperity, policies helpful to the empire |