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Question 1

1 out of 1 points

This social class was made up of all people involved in the business of public contracts.

Selected Answer: Publicani

Question 2

1 out of 1 points

This 216 B.C. battle was the worst military defeat in Roman history. Rome’s prestige was

shattered, and the Carthaginians now claimed most of southern Italy. Only 15,000 out of an

army over 80,000 survived.

Selected Answer: Cannae

Question 3

0 out of 1 points

This Greek city (and ally of Rome) located in Gaul between northern Italy and northern

Spain was a factor in the coming of the Second Punic War. The growing power of Carthage

in Spain threatened the city’s trade, which had expanded at Carthage’s expense during the

First Punic War. The city was also afraid that Carthage– once if fully controlled Spain–

might ally with neighboring tribes to eliminate them as a rival altogether. In 226 B.C., the

Romans concluded the Ebro Treaty with Carthage to pacify the city.

Selected Answer: Cartagena

Question 4

1 out of 1 points

After defeating Carthage decisively in the Second Punic War, Rome got bogged down in the

Third Punic War-- and against lesser foes. While there was no clear “winner” in this third

war, a good case could be made that Carthage actually defeated Rome.

Selected Answer: False

Question 5

1 out of 1 points

The site of most of the ground fighting during the First Punic War.

Selected Answer: Sicily

Question 6

0 out of 1 points

This social class was made up of non-senatorial families who met the minimum property

requirement to be senators.

Selected Answer: Publicani

Question 7

1 out of 1 points

At this battle between Rome and Carthage (24 June 217 B.C.), the vain and overconfident

Roman consul Gaius Flaminius pursued Hannibal into the mountains near Aretzo (and along

this body of water), where the Carthaginian commander fell on his lines in the front, the rear,

and the center. Many Romans drowned trying to swim from the Punic onslaught. The

overall Roman losses at this battle were 30,000, including Flaminius.

Selected Answer: Trasimene Lake

Question 8

1 out of 1 points

In 175 B.C., this Seleucid king moved militarily against Rome’s Ptolemy ally in Egypt, and

besieged Alexandria. The Roman envoy, C. Popillius Laenas, confronted Seleucid ruler,

conveying the Senate’s “request” that he withdraw from Egypt. When he asked for time to

consider, Popillius drew a circle around him in the sand and demanded a reply before he

stepped out of it. This Seleucid prudently swallowed his pride, and retreated from Egypt.

Selected Answer: Antiochus IV

Question 9

1 out of 1 points

At the December 218 B.C. battle at Trebia River, the hasty Roman commander, Titus

Sempronius Longus marched across the river and attacked Hannibal’s main force.

Meanwhile, an ambush party led by Hannibal’s brother, Mago, emerged at the rear of

Sempronious’s line, sowing utter confusion and causing the Roman auxiliaries to break and

flee. Sempronius was soundly defeated.

Selected Answer: True

Question 10

1 out of 1 points

NOT a factor in the coming of the Third Punic War (149-146 B.C.):

Selected

Answer: Carthage was bitter after the Second Punic War, and refused to pay their war

debt to Rome, and consistently worked to resist the Romans and push them

toward war.

Question 11

0 out of 1 points

NOT true about Carthage.

Selected Answer: The army was made up mostly of mercenaries.

Question 12

1 out of 1 points

NOT one of the consequences of war and empire in the years following the Punic Wars:

Selected

Answer: The republic was actually strengthened by the size of empire, and all the

competing power interests.

Question 13

1 out of 1 points

The Roman consul Gaius Nero defeated Hannibal’s brother, Hasdrubal, at this battle in

northern Italy in 207 B.C. Following his loss, Hasdrubal committed suicide.

Selected Answer: Metaurus

Question 14

0 out of 1 points

What was the Ebro Treaty of 226 B.C.?

Selected

Answer: An agreement between Rome and Carthage that limited the amount of aid

to Carthage from its Greek allies.

Question 15

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following is true about the peace terms ending the Second Punic War?

Selected Answer: A & B only

Question 16

1 out of 1 points

Beginning in the 3 rd

century B.C., the Romans were heavily influenced by this group of people, whose poetry,

drama, history, rhetoric, philosophy, and art provided a model for the Romans, and helped

produce a distinctive Mediterranean culture.

Selected Answer: Greeks

Question 17

1 out of 1 points

The Roman strategy to win the Second Punic War.

Selected

Answer: To avoid Hannibal in Italy, and wage war, instead, on Carthaginian forces

in Spain and North Africa.

Question 18

1 out of 1 points

The son of Hamilcar Barca and the chief and brilliant commander of Carthaginian forces

during the Second Punic War. In 218 B.C., he marched a force of 90,000 infantry and

12,000 cavalry into Italy. He won every major battle in Italy against the Romans.

Selected Answer: Hannibal

Question 19

1 out of 1 points

This successful Roman commander (and consul) in the Second Macedonian War was

charismatic, cultured, and fluent in Greek. He electrified the Greek world with his slogan of

“Freedom and self-determination of the Greeks.” In 196 B.C., he even made a grand

appearance at the Isthmian Games at Corinth, where he proclaimed that the Greeks were to

be subject to their own laws, without garrisons and without tribute.

Selected Answer: Titus Quinctius Flaminius

Question 20

1 out of 1 points

Prior to the First Punic War, Rome had little, if any, experience with a navy. During the war,

however, they developed this drawbridge that would crash into the deck of an enemy ship,

and enable the Roman legions to board.

Selected Answer: Corvus

Question 21

1 out of 1 points

This Macedonian king proved to be a problem for the Romans in the immediate post-Second

Punic War period. In the lead up to the Second Macedonian War (200-196 B.C.), he

attacked his free Greek neighbors, threatened Rhoades, and seized control of the Black Sea

trade lanes.

Selected Answer: Philip V.

Question 22

1 out of 1 points

During the Rome-Syrian War (192-188 B.C.), this powerful Seleucid king—who had done

much to revive Seleucid might in the Near East-- moved a force into Greece to “liberate” it

from Roman “oppression.” In response, Rome sent 30,000 troops to Greece, defeated him at

Thermopylae in 191, and forced a peace in 188 that seceded all Seleucid land to Rome.

Selected Answer: Antiochus III

Question 23

1 out of 1 points

A major problem facing the Romans in the post Punic Wars period was slave revolts.

Selected Answer: True

Question 24

1 out of 1 points

As a result of this Roman victory in battle in 197 B.C., Macedonia was forced to recognize

the freedom and independence of the Greeks, and the Second Macedonia War came to an

end.

Selected Answer: Cynoscephalae

Question 25

1 out of 1 points

The Sicilian Wars (480-307 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between Carthage and the Greek

city-states of Magna Graecia (headed by Syracuse) over control of Sicily.

Selected Answer: True

Question 26

1 out of 1 points

This king ruled Macedon during the First and Second Macedonian Wars, and was a staunch

supporter of Carthage. During his second war with Rome (200-196 B.C.), he was decisively

defeated at the battle of Cynoscephalae. The subsequent Treaty of Tempea (196) forbade

him to move or interfere beyond his borders.

Selected Answer: Philip V

Question 27

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following would be a good ancient source for Rome during the Punic Wars?

Selected Answer: A & C only

Question 28

1 out of 1 points

This social class was made up of those wealthy patrician and plebeian landowning families

whose current heads had obtained membership in the senate by appointment or by holding

certain elective offices or whose direct male lines included men who had been members of

the Senate.

Selected Answer: Aristocratic Senatorial Order

Question 29

1 out of 1 points

NOT true about Scipio Africanus:

Selected

Answer: He was noted for his stubbornness in refusing to adopt non-Roman

techniques in combat.

Question 30

1 out of 1 points

NOT true about Pyrrhus of Epirus:

Selected

Answer: He was appointed Roman dictator during the First Punic War, and was

killed by Hamilcar Barca at the naval battle of Mylae.

Question 31

1 out of 1 points

This Roman warship during the First Punic War was modeled after Carthaginian ships. Built

by the Romans in the late 260s B.C., it carried a crew of 420, including 300 rowers. It was

heavy and strong, with a bronze beak used for ramming and sinking other ships.

Selected Answer: Quinquereme

Question 32

0 out of 1 points

NOT one of the causes of the Second Punic War.

Selected

Answer: Hannibal’s siege and capture of Saguntum, an ally of Rome, in Spain in

218 B.C.

Question 33

1 out of 1 points

Sobered by their early defeats in the Second Punic War, the Romans elected this dictator to

restore order. Contrary to that which was popular in Rome, the aged general wanted to

avoid open battle with Hannibal. He believed that the best strategy against Hannibal was to

harass his lines, and slash and burn the countryside so as to deprive the Puni of food stores.

He was very unpopular, and soon removed from command.

Selected Answer: Quintus Fabius Maximus

Question 34

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following is true about the battle of Zama in 202 B.C.?

Selected Answer: A & B only

Question 35

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following is true about Masinissa?

Selected Answer: All of the above

Question 36

1 out of 1 points

NOT true about the ending of the First Punic War in 241 B.C.

Selected

Answer: The Carthaginian’s won the First Punic War, and it was Roman bitterness at

having been defeated that led to the second war in 218.

Question 37

1 out of 1 points

This hinged and raised gangplank was added to Roman warships during the First Punic War.

After an enemy ship was rammed, the gangplank (including a grappling spike) was dropped

on the deck of an enemy’s disabled vessel.

Selected Answer: Corvus

Question 38

1 out of 1 points

NOT a contributing factor in the coming of the First Punic War (264-241 B.C.).

Selected Answer: Hannibal’s attack on the town of Saguntum.

Question 39

1 out of 1 points

One of the most famous Roman women of the Late Republic. She was the daughter of

Scipio Africanus, and the mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.

Selected Answer: Cornelia

Question 40

1 out of 1 points

Who or what was Sophonisba?

Selected Answer: Both C & D

Question 41

Needs Grading

Briefly discuss the Roman way of war.

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