Author Question: In the rural west of the late empire, many cities were reconfigured as walled fortresses. For ... (Read 14 times)

saliriagwu · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Because Augustus was officially first citizen and not king or emperor, he could not legally name his ________.

A. advisers
B. military leaders
C. cabinet
D. successor
E. wife

Question 2

The ________, who characterized one segment of the nobility at the end of the republic, found their literary expression in the personal poems of Catullus.

A. introverted Hellenophiles
B. peace-promoting doves
C. crippled war veterans
D. pleasure-seeking aristocrats
E. women seeking voting rights

Question 3

________, the great eighteenth-century scholar of Roman history, suggested that instead of asking why Rome fell, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

A. Alexander Hamilton
B. Henry James
C. Edward Gibbon
D. Samuel Morse
E. James Michener

Question 4

The fourth- and fifth-century decline and fall of the Roman Empire refers to the diminishing fortunes of ________.

A. the frontier provinces
B. Rome and the Italian peninsula
C. the cities
D. the eastern empire
E. the western empire

Question 5

In the rural west of the late empire, many cities were reconfigured as walled fortresses. For civilians, life revolved around the villa, a(n) ________.

A. corner market
B. fortified country estate
C. village of up to 200 people
D. extended family
E. communal garden