Religion Exam: Background Chapter
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- Plebian
- common
- Tribune
- Plebian representative
- Princeps
- First citizen
- Pontifex Maximus
- High Priest
- Pax Romana
- Roman Peace
- Orbis Terrarum
- Circle of Lands
- Optimus Maximus
- Best and Greatest
- Perishaya
- Separated ones
- Essenes
- Pious ones
- Diaspora
- Dispersion
- Hellenism supplied its conquered lands with new culture and philosophies.
- True
- Rome was designed as a Republic from the start.
- False
- Rome developed into a monarchy after the failure of the Republic.
- False
- After the Punic wars, Rome acquired Sicily, North Africa and Spain.
- True
- Caesar was named dictator for life by the senate in 49 B.C.
- False
- The death of Antony opened the door for Octavian to be declared Emperor.
- True
- During and after the reign of Augustus, a period of peace and prosperity occurred in the Roman civilization lasting for 400 years.
- False
- The Roman understanding of virtue was highly influenced by the hellenistic view.
- True
- Greece adopted its pagan religious practices from the Romans.
- False
- Prisoners of war provided to largest source of slaves for the empire.
- True
- Free slaves could gain citizenship in Rome.
- True
- The history of the Jews began with the convenant God made with Abraham.
- True
- The Sadducees dominated the Sanhedrin during the time of Jesus.
- True
- The Sadducees considered the Pentateuch to be inferior to the words of the prophets.
- False
- The disapora began with the Assyrian exile
- True
- What two languages did Jese most likely speak?
- Hebrew and Aramaic
- The Roman world at the time was dominated by the languages of...
- Greek and Latin
- __________ the Great conquered most of the knwn world of the fourth century BC.
- Alexander
- Rome ws founded by two brothers. What were their names?
- Romulus and Remus
- In 27 BC, under what title from the senate did Octavius rule under?
- dictator
- What cult was a fraternal organization open only to men that cultivated virtues important in the life of a soldier?
- The Mithraic cult
- Who was Moses' successor under the Jewish people?
- Joshua
- Under which two kings did the Jewish kingdom reach its zenith?
- David and Solomon
- After Solomon's death, the kingdo was divided into two parts: ______ and _________.
- Israel and Judah
- __________was a very influential philosophical school of thought in both Greece and Rome.
- Stoicism
- The ___________ were a group of Jews that withdrew from the world into the desert in order to live a life of prayer and aseticism.
- Essenes
- The two main groups of Jewish religious leaders at the time of Jesus were the...
- Sudducees and the Pharisees
- Who led the Jew out of captivity?
- Moses
- The Chief Roman god was the sky god named___________.
- Jupiter
- The triumvirate of rulers set up by Augustus' son was composed of...
- Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus