Professor James Baer

WESTERN CIVILIZATION I

Study Guide Ch 5 and 6

Identifcation Identify the terms and people listed in one short phrase. After reading these chapters, students should understand  the importance of these individuals and terms, and with which country or countries they are associated. Type your responses.

Terms:

Etruscans:

Senate:

Patricians:

Plebeians:

Consul:

Imperium:

Dictator:

Triumvirate:

12 Tables:

Punic Wars:

Optimates:

Populares:

Foederati:

Struggle of the Orders:

Praetorian Guard:

Princeps:

Five Good Emperors:

Latifundia:

Tetrarchy:

Crisis of the third century:

Christianity:

Pax Romana:
 
 

People:

Hannibal:

Sulla:

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus (the Gracchi brothers):

Pompey:

Julius Caesar:

Octavian (Caesar Augustus):

Mark Antony:

Cleopatra:

Paul of Tarsus:

Emperors:

Tiberius:

Claudius I:

Caligula:

Nero:

Trajan:

Hadrian:

Diocletian:

Constantine:

Essay/ Discussion Topics: Choose ONE of the following and type (double-spaced) a 250 word response, using specific information from the textbook.

1. What was the "Struggle of the Orders" and how did it affect Roman society?

2. Explain the causes of the wars between Rome and Carthage. Could these wars have been averted? Who was responsible?

3. How did the reforms of the Gracchi brothers signify an important change in the life of Rome? Was this the "beginning of the end" of the Roman Republic? Explain.

4. Why was Augustus so successful in creating an empire?

5. How was the crisis of the third century overcome through Diocletian's reforms?