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Rome paralleled Greece in all of the follwoing ways except which of the following
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the geographical concentration of their cultures
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What was Roman attitude toward Greek culture
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The Romans served a vital role in preserving many features of Greek society
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How did the geographical extent of the Roman empire compare to the geopraphical extent of Hellenism
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Rome spread civilization beyond the coastline of the Mediterranean to North Africa, Spain, France, Romania, and Britain
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About what date did the Neolithic revolution spread to Italy?
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1000 BCE
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How does the date of the appearance ofsedentary agriculture in Italy compare to the appearance of sedentary agriculture in other civilizations?
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The onset of sedentary agriculture was later in Italy than in other civilizations
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Who were the Etruscans?
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Agroup that resided in northern italy and who ruled the Romans through kings until ca 510 BCE
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Which of the following offices could be found within the Roman repulblic?
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Tribunes
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Which of the follwoing statements most accurately reflects the nature of the Roman republican constitution?
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The constitution balanced various interests within Roman Society, but heavily relied on the aristocracy
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What date was the Roman Republic established
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ca. 510 BCE
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In what way did the society of the Roman republec differ from the Greeks?
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The Romans emphasized clientage relationships between landlords and lesser citizens
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The Carthaginians were orginally
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Phoenician colonists who established a major trade empire in the western Mediterranean
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The Collapse of the Hellenistic Kindoms made it possiblefor
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The Romans to extend their empire into the power vacuum created in the eastern mediterranean
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HOw did the creation of a republican empire affect Romes' society and economy
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The territorial expansion tended to enrich the aristocrats and increase their monopoly over landholding at the expense of the smal farming class
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Which of the following political figures during the last century of the Roman republic was reponsible for the introduction of paid volunteers into the Roman armies
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Marius
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Which of the following political figures during the last cenrury of the Roman republic was responsible for the final overthrow of the republican costitution?
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Julius ceasar
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Which of the following Roman literary figures was a historian
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Livy
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What was the most distinctive innovation of the Roman empire?
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The use of law to produce cohesion within the empire
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Within the Roman empire local governments were
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grantec considerable auronomy, and is some cases whole kingdoms were preserved
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How did the citizenship of the Roman empire compare to that of the rpublic?
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The empire extended citizenship more fully than did the republic to important groups outside of italy
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What was the only difference between Roman and Greek religion?
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Roman gods and goddesses had diffeent names
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Trajan was the emperor responsible
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the extension of the empire to its greatest territorial dimensions
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the Roman imperial attitude toward religion?
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The empire tolerated most relgions whose members were willing to give at least formal acceptance of the traditional state religion and the cult of the emperors.
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Which of the following statements concerning roman slavery is true?
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The existence of extensive slave labor dimineshed techonlogical developments in agriculture and manufacturing.
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Which of the following was reponsible for the dissemination of Christianity outside the Jewish community?
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Paul of Tarsus
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From the 1st centyr AD, the Roman imperial government
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occasionally persecuted Christians, bur sporadically
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