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What was the Pax Romana period?
a) The period of peace and prosperity starting with Caesar Augustus
b) The bloody and turbulent period following Mark Antony’s defeat,
c) The quiet unimportant period that ended with Caesar Augustus
d) A lettuce

How many good rulers were among the first ten emperors?
a) 4
b) All of them
c) None of them
d) 8

What did Caesar Augustus prefer to be called?
a) First citizen
b) his royal kingness
c) Emperor
d) imperator

Who was known as “Little Boots”?
a) Caligula
b) Tiberius
c) Claudius
d) Julius

What were some changes seen during the Pax Romana?
a) strong administrative system, largescale trade, improved legal system
b) More poor people, advances in medicine, large scale war.
c) Strong upper class, more education, better food.
d) Secure seas and roads, fear of war, limited power by the government.

Who did Caligula name as a consul?
a) His favorite horse
b) His cousin Nero
c) he removed the consuls from power
d) His little brother

What did Nero stage for evening “entertainment”?
a) gladiator fights
b) Plays
c) Burning of Christians
d) debates

What was one of the disasters during Titus’ rule?
a) a drought
b) City of Pompeii destroyed
c) a meteorite struck Herculaneum
d) Rome flooded

What plan did Nerva initiate?
a) reduced their border size
b) road systems throughout all Roman Empire
c) War on Germanic tribes
d) ? Selecting the next ruler based on skill instead of automatically passing to children

What were the living conditions in Rome?
a) Looked a lot like New York City
b) Overcrowded, a city of contrast between wealth and poor, confusing
c) Wide, well marked and lit streets with short buildings
d) Gross and dangerous but public buildings separated from the slums.

What did wealthy homes have?
a) An atrium, tablinum and peristylium.
b) An atrium, lots of furniture and tile mosaics.
c) A dining room, greek mythology and lava.
d) Pools, landscaping and large windows.

What language was spoken by ordinary Romans?
a) Italian
b) Roman
c) Latin
d) Greek

Who ran local government in the Provinces?
a) it was a free for all
b) Tetrarchs
c) Judges
d) the soldiers

Where did early Germanic tribes migrate from?
a) Northern Greece, Syria and Northern India
b) Russia India and Egypt.
c) Northern India, Southern Mesopotamia and Southern Russia
d) Egypt, Greece and China.

How did the Germanic men spend their time?
a) Sleeping
b) Farming
c) Gambling
d) Footraces

What type of government did the Germanic tribes have?
a) Tyranny
b) Democracy with an elected king
c) no government
d) absolute monarchy

How was guilt or innocence proven?
a) assumed guilty
b) Jury of peers
c) Trial by ordeal
d) evidence examination

What tribe did the Romans make friends with?
a) Lombards
b) Franks
c) Celts
d) Frisians

What was the Romans’ major policy for dealing with the Germanic tribes?
a) pay them off
b) invade and settle the area
c) Containment
d) Ignore them

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