These wars between Rome and Carthage made Rome a major Mediterranean power.
What are the Three Punic Wars?
100
The celebratory parade given to a victorious Roman general.
What is a triumph?
100
The Carthaginian commander in the Second Punic War
Who is Hannibal?
100
The four types of social power according to Mann?
What are ideological, economic, military, and political?
200
This Italian resort town provides the richest source of Roman art, graffiti, and objects of daily life for modern scholars.
What is Pompeii?
200
This ecumenical meeting of Bishops attempted to resolve doctrinal disputes in early Christianity.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
200
The serf class of land-bound peasants who replaced slaves in the late Roman Empire
What are the coloni?
200
The late Roman Emperor who split the empire with three friends and tried to reform the Roman economy and military structures?
Who is Diocletian?
200
The model of imperial government that involves placing your own allies at the top of local power structures?
What is the elite replacement model?
300
This Herodian palace on a steep mesa was the last holdout of the Jewish Zealots during the First Jewish War.
What is Masada?
300
This war against rebels in an Eastern province helped catapult Vespasian onto the Imperial throne.
What is the First Jewish War?
300
The widespread practice of allowing slaves to buy their freedom or, occasionally, receive it as a gift from their masters.
What is manumission?
300
The three members of the First Triumvirate
Who are Pompey, Crassus, and Julius Caesar?
300
The increased organization and power of political units surrounding an empire in response to fear of takeover by that empire?
What is secondary state formation?
400
This battle marked Rome's greatest loss to Hannibal during the Second Punic War.
What is the Battle of Cannae?
400
This war began by Italians demanding Roman citizenship; it nearly resulted in defeat for the Romans.
What is the Social War?
400
The formal ceremony of calling out the local gods of a city that the Romans were fighting and bribing them with temples and sacrifices if they deserted their own people to join the Romans.
What is evocatio?
400
The supposed "worst emperor" of Rome who came to the throne at 15 and worshiped a giant black meteorite as a sun god?
Who is Elagabalus?
400
The possibility of raising your economic and political status, most commonly done among the Romans either through military service or manumission.
What is social mobility?
500
The most important city in Dacia, besieged by the Emperor Trajan
What is Sarmizegethusa?
500
These two brothers attempted to pass what type of legislation in the 130s and 120s BCE?
What are the land reforms of the Brothers Gracchi?
500
The common ritual triple sacrifice, seen on the Ara Pacis, of a pig, a sheep, and a bull.
What is the suovetaurilia?
500
The emperor who lost in battle to the Sassanid King of King Shapuhr I and was forced to kneel before him, as depicted in many Sassanid reliefs?
Who is Valerian?
500
The economic model that argues that the inner and eastern Roman provinces provided the bulk of resources to the central government, which in turn funneled them out to the frontier provinces to pay the army, who then purchased supplies back from the inner provinces?