First Carthage...
What was the name of the Roman general who won the Battle of Zama?
Scipio Africanus
What was the first Greek "Successor Kingdom" against which Rome fought after defeating Carthage?
Macedonia
Why did many rural Romans start dodging the Census in the 140s and 130s?
They wanted to avoid getting drafted to fight.
What were the names of the two Gracchi brothers?
Tiberius and Gaius (Caius).
In which war did Marius and Sulla both rise to prominence?
Jugurthine War
What tactic did the Romans use to defeat Hannibal's elephants at Zama?
They freaked them out with trumpets, causing many to turn around and stamp the Carthaginians.
What was the name of the Seleucid king against whom the Romans fought after defeating Macedonia?
Antiochus
What "import" started flooding Italy after Rome began seriously conquering the Successor Kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean?
Slaves
What was the main legislative focus of Tiberius Gracchus?
He wanted to pass a land bill breaking up the big patrician estates.
Why did Sulla march an army into Rome in the 80s BC, the first time this had ever happened?
He was trying to keep Marius from taking away Sulla's command of the army going to fight Mithridates.
What was the name of the Numidian horseman-king on whom the Romans relied at Zama?
The weakening of which Greek Successor Kingdom led to the destabilizing of the entire eastern Mediterranean?
Ptolemaic Egypt
Why did average Roman farmers start going bankrupt in the 150s, 140s, and 130s?
Large estates with many slaves could outperform their labor.
What were the two actual "crimes" of Tiberius Gracchus that got him killed by the Senate?
Impeaching another Tribune and trying to run for a second consecutive term as Tribune.
Who was responsible for most of the actual work of defeating Spartacus during the slave revolt around Mount Vesuvius?
Crassus
What was Carthage not allowed to do by treaty after its defeat by Rome?
Why did the Romans care about what happened in the eastern Mediterranean?
They wanted to make money from trading there, and the crazy Greeks could not settle down.
Why didn't many Romans originally move abroad into the territories Rome had conquered?
The Roman Dream was to live in Latium, tending one's farm and watching one's wife take care of one's children while the breeze ruffled through one's abundant crop of grain.
What was one of the reforms enacted by Gaius Gracchus? (There are several right answers.)
Sold grain below market price to the poor; shortened the term of military service; restricted the draft to males 17 or over; paid for military equipment out of the public funds; proposed citizenship and rights for the socii.
Pompey was well known for conquering what part of the world?
When the Romans finally annexed Carthage in the 140s BC, what did they name the province they created?
The Province of Africa
What were the first three provinces Rome made for itself in the 140s BC?
Macedonia, Africa, and Greece.
Who were the socii, and what did they want from Rome?
They were the allies and long-term residents of Italy who served in the Roman army; they wanted Roman citizenship and all its rights.
He took away the ability of the Concilium Plebis to pass its own laws; he restricted the Tribunes from proposing laws; he made it impossible to run for any other office if one served as Tribune.
Why did Sulla not kill Julius Caesar, even though Caesar was related to Marius by marriage?
Caesar was the High Priest of Jupiter, and killing him was judged impious.