Question 1

What made Jesus most controversial among the Jews was:

Accepted Answer

the claim of his followers that he was the Messiah.

Question 2

The leader of the Goths who received support from the Eastern Emperor to drive the Huns from Italy and establish a Gothic kingdom was:

Accepted Answer

Theoderic

Question 3

Realizing that the Roman Empire had become too large for a single ruler to control it:

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Diocletian divided the empire in half, trusting a junior colleague to rule the western part.

Question 4

Severus disregarded what remained of the Roman Senate and its few remaining powers and ruled through the army while reforming it by:

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allowing Roman soldiers to marry, which allowed them to put down roots where they lived.

Question 5

The monastic way of life in the West was influenced greatly by the establishment of a set of rules written by:

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Benedict

Question 6

Ambrose helped establish the authority of the Church by :

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forcing Theodosius to seek forgiveness from Ambrose for his sins.

Question 7

By the end of the third century, the involvement of women in the Church had:

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shrunk to the point that they were completely excluded from all positions of power.

Question 8

One result of the Council of Nicea was to:

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declare Arianism a heresy.

Question 9

The economic effects of the migrations of the fifth century on the northwestern provinces:

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saw long-distance trade decline and skilled workers displaced from their occupations.

Question 10

Unlike the common practices of many previous civilizations:

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early Christian monks practiced extreme forms of self-abasement.

Question 11

Historians now refer to the period from 284 to 610 C.E. as Late Antiquity because:

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it is a period with its own themes and developments, neither wholly Roman and not yet medieval.

Question 12

Unlike Cicero, Ambrose argued that the motive and goal of human conduct should be:

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reverence for God.

Question 13

Boethius’s interest in logic while remaining thoroughly Christian:

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established a link between classical Greek thought and intellectual Christianity.

Question 14

Plotinus and Neoplatonism, like Christianity, believed in a soul that could be liberated from earthly bondage and prepared for reunification with God by:

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asceticism

Question 15

Traditional Roman religion included ancestor worship and:

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oligarchs who played dual roles as priests and politicians.

Question 16

One example of how Rome transformed the world into the Roman world would be:

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that Roman leaders who originated from everywhere within the empire would settle far from their place of birth.

Question 17

The division between Roman patricians and plebeians was:

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between the wealthiest (2 percent) and the rest (98 percent) of the people.

Question 18

The equestrian order (Roman knights) was established when:

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businessmen who did not become senators wanted privileges.

Question 19

Those who ruled Rome from 96 to 180 C.E. were called the “Five Good Emperors” because:

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they were capable administrators who governed successfully.

Question 20

The Romans were the first people to use ___ on a massive scale in their buildings.

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concrete

Question 21

The Romans were able to support cities with large populations due, in no small measure, to the:

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construction of a system of aqueducts to allow a steady supply of potable water to the cities.

Question 22

Tiberius Gracchus sought to protect small farmers and protect the pool of citizens from which the army could be drawn by reviving old laws from the republican days that limited the amount of land a person could hold; for this he was:

Accepted Answer

murdered

Question 23

Prior to Julius Caesar’s appointment as “Dictator for Life,” only one other Roman had been appointed to that position without the traditional six-month term, and he was:

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Sulla

Question 24

Prior to the establishment of Rome as the dominant state in Italy:

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Etruscans, skilled metalworkers and artists, lived there.

Question 25

Once the Romans had effectively gained control of Italy (265 B.C.E.):

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they started a series of wars for control of the western Mediterranean.

Question 26

After Rome had twice defeated Carthage, a third Punic War:

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was provoked by war hawks who thought Carthage must be destroyed.

Question 27

Cicero, one of the most famous Stoics of the later republic, believed in all the tenets of Stoicism except:

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withdrawal from public life.

Question 28

The Augustan system of government:

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is known as the early empire or Principate, because Octavian ruled as first citizen.

HIS 101

Chapter 5-6 Exam

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