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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 back might excavations under modern Rome over the last 100 years have unearthed?

2. How many of Cicero's letters survived?

3. When did Alexander the Great lead his Macedonia army on a conquest from Greece to India.

4. What seems to be the date for the earliest attempts at drainage systems in Rome?

5. When was Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus counsul?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is the earliest known use of the word consul?

2. What type of dating system did the Romans use?

3. What is known about the list of consuls on which the chronology of the Republic is based?

4. How did Romulus get women for his city according to Livy?

5. What was Rome like in 63 BCE?

6. What was the story of Aeneas founding Rome?

7. According to Livy, who were the kings of Rome?

8. In Chapter 1, what are some times that author states that Rome faced danger and defeat?

9. What were the 12 tables?

10. What were the advantages and disadvantages of Rome's location on the Tiber River?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Spartacus led a group of gladiators in a battle against Rome. Why do some historians want to make Spartacus an ideological hero fighting against slavery? Why does Beard not ascribe to that the theory that Spartacus was an abolitionist?

Essay Topic 3

Beard comments that the history of Rome has changed in the 50 years prior to when she wrote the book. How has Roman history changed? Why does history change?

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