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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far was Corinth from Carthage?

2. What interest rate did Marcus Junius Brutus charge the people of Salamis when he lent money?

3. What was the perimeter of the walls that surrounded Carthage?

4. How many occupations were there in the city of Rome alone?

5. Who did Marcus Aurelius brutally suppress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the portrayal of Nero by modern historians demonstrate about history?

2. Who was Pliny the Younger?

3. How did Cicero describe the time when he entertained Caesar for dinner in one of his seaside estates?

4. What was different about the version of citizenship that the Romans invented?

5. What contribution did Caesar make to timekeeping?

6. What property did Cicero own, and how wealthy was he?

7. What was the biggest killer of young adult women from Rome and why?

8. What was Corinth and how was it defeated by the Romans?

9. How did Augustus die?

10. Why did members of the imperial family often finds themselves in perilous positions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carthage and Corinth were conquered by the Romans within a few months of each other. How long did it take the Romans to conquer Carthage and then Corinth? What brutality occurred after the conquering of the cities? Why were the victors so brutal?

Essay Topic 2

Citizenship is the relationship between an individual and a state or country. How did Rome invent a new version of citizenship? How did Romans change the way that citizenship was viewed?

Essay Topic 3

Augustus became emperor after Caesar. How did Augustus become emperor after Caesar? What does his rise to power convey about the establishment of autocratic rule in Rome?

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