Lesson test: The city the kings made

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The city the kings made

1.[2p]
Which is the strongest evidence that sixth-century Rome was ruled by a king?

The Lapis Niger, an archaic inscription from the Comitium carrying the word for king in the dative

Correct

Livy's account of the seven kings and their reigns

The answer is: The Lapis Niger, an archaic inscription from the Comitium carrying the word for king in the dative

The story of Lucretia and the expulsion of the Tarquins

The answer is: The Lapis Niger, an archaic inscription from the Comitium carrying the word for king in the dative

The existence of the priesthood called the rex sacrorum

The answer is: The Lapis Niger, an archaic inscription from the Comitium carrying the word for king in the dative

2.[2p]
Seven kings are said to have ruled from 753 to 509 BC. What is the mean length of a reign, in years?

CorrectNot quite: 34.9

3.[2p]
How many years separate the traditional expulsion of the kings from the first Roman history of Rome, written by Fabius Pictor around 200 BC?

CorrectNot quite: 309

4.[1p]
The Republic abolished imperium and put a different kind of authority in its place.

True

The answer is: False

False

Correct

5.[2p]
Which priesthood was created to perform the king's religious duties, barred from any political office?

CorrectNot quite: rex sacrorum

6.[3p]
Match each Roman term to what it named.

imperium
auspicium
fasces
res publica
adfectatio regni

the rods and axe carried by lictors
aiming at kingship
the right to consult the gods before public business
the right to command and to punish
the public thing, business belonging to the people

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imperium: the right to command and to punish auspicium: the right to consult the gods before public business fasces: the rods and axe carried by lictors res publica: the public thing, business belonging to the people adfectatio regni: aiming at kingship

7.[2p]
Put these in chronological order, earliest first.

The expulsion of the last king
Fabius Pictor writes the first history of Rome
The Lapis Niger inscription
The traditional founding of Rome
The Gauls burn Rome

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a, b, c, d, e

8.[3p]
Which of these are good reasons to treat Livy's account of the fifth century BC with caution?

Select all that apply

He wrote roughly five centuries after the events he describes

Correct

He works from earlier annalists and rarely marks where they disagree

Correct

He writes to a moral scheme in which Rome rises by virtue and falls by wealth

Correct

He had no access to any record of the annual magistrates

The answer is: He wrote roughly five centuries after the events he describes, He works from earlier annalists and rarely marks where they disagree, He writes to a moral scheme in which Rome rises by virtue and falls by wealth

9.[2p]
Spurius Cassius, Spurius Maelius and Manlius Capitolinus were all killed after helping the poor. What does the pattern best show?

That the aristocracy read a personal following among the poor as a bid for kingship

Correct

That all three men were in fact plotting to seize the throne

The answer is: That the aristocracy read a personal following among the poor as a bid for kingship

That the early Republic had a working law of treason with courts and evidence

The answer is: That the aristocracy read a personal following among the poor as a bid for kingship

That famine relief was illegal at Rome before the second century BC

The answer is: That the aristocracy read a personal following among the poor as a bid for kingship

1.[2p] Which is the strongest evidence that sixth-century Rome was ruled by a king?

2.[2p] Seven kings are said to have ruled from 753 to 509 BC. What is the mean length of a reign, in years?

3.[2p] How many years separate the traditional expulsion of the kings from the first Roman history of Rome, written by Fabius Pictor around 200 BC?

4.[1p] The Republic abolished imperium and put a different kind of authority in its place.

5.[2p] Which priesthood was created to perform the king's religious duties, barred from any political office?

6.[3p] Match each Roman term to what it named.

7.[2p] Put these in chronological order, earliest first.

8.[3p] Which of these are good reasons to treat Livy's account of the fifth century BC with caution?

9.[2p] Spurius Cassius, Spurius Maelius and Manlius Capitolinus were all killed after helping the poor. What does the pattern best show?

1.[2p]
Which is the strongest evidence that sixth-century Rome was ruled by a king?

2.[2p]
Seven kings are said to have ruled from 753 to 509 BC. What is the mean length of a reign, in years?

3.[2p]
How many years separate the traditional expulsion of the kings from the first Roman history of Rome, written by Fabius Pictor around 200 BC?

4.[1p]
The Republic abolished imperium and put a different kind of authority in its place.

5.[2p]
Which priesthood was created to perform the king's religious duties, barred from any political office?

6.[3p]
Match each Roman term to what it named.

7.[2p]
Put these in chronological order, earliest first.

8.[3p]
Which of these are good reasons to treat Livy's account of the fifth century BC with caution?

9.[2p]
Spurius Cassius, Spurius Maelius and Manlius Capitolinus were all killed after helping the poor. What does the pattern best show?