Dates
When is my birthday?
(not on the test, just needed another square lol)
*hint: it's a Canadian National Holiday, and Julius Caesar would have been happy with the month!
July 1st!
Canada Day
Define: "senatus consultum ultimum"
roughly translates to: "do whatever is necessary to protect the republic", decree urged magistrates/ consuls to take ANY measures to defend the state and see that it came to no harm (even if those measures didn't strictly follow the laws)
Name this person:
- On Council of the Plebs
- tried to bypass Senate and pass agrarian reform bill (says Romans can only own 30 acres of conquered Italy land each
- beaten to death☠️ in the Forum😭 #rip
Who is Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus?
Define: "latifundia"
plural for plantations (massive farms with slaves and livestock owned by wealthiest of Romans)
What is the name of the river "boundary" between the Roman and Gaul provinces, that was crossed by Caesar & his armies to begin the Roman Civil War?
What is the Rubicon?
Name that Year:
- Mirthritates VI dies
- Julius Caesar is elected as praetor and Pontifex Maximus
- Marcus Cato serves as Tribune
- Octavius is born
What is 63 BC?
Translate: “Alea iacta est!”
*bonus 50: who said this and when?
"The die has been cast"
(said by Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon river with his army into Rome, starting the Roman Civil War)
Name this person:
- professionalized Roman army
- responsible for law that allowed landless Romans to serve in army to gain land 🏔
Who is Gaius Marius?
Define: "ager publicus"
government owned land (gained via military conquests in Italy), rented out for a small fee
Who made up the First Triumvirate?
(Bonus if you can say what this started!)
Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar
(*50 points The Death of the Republic)
When was the exact date for the ides of March (when Caesar was killed)?
What is March 15, 44 BC?
Translate: "veni, vidi, vici"
*bonus 50: who said this?
"I came, I saw, I conquered"
(said by Julius Caesar after he won the Battle of Zela, between Rome and Kingdom of Pontus)
Name this person:
- took over when Marius retired
- marched on Mithridates but turned around to march on Rome twice due to Gaius Marius
- Responsible for Romes "proscriptions"☠️
*bonus: define proscriptions?
Who is L. Cornelius Sulla?
proscriptions: lists of names of people to be killed (100,000s of Roman people died, heads put on stakes)
Latin name for these people:
-Roman politicians who sought to follow new route of bypassing senate set by Tiberius
What was the name given to the soldiers who carrier their weapons along with construction tools during war, because they built a new fort in each place they went complete with walls and a moat (under Marius's orders)?
Who were the Mules of Marius?
Ignore this one too!
What is September 2, 31 BC?
Translate: "celeritas and clementia"
"speed and mercy" (describes Caesars army)
Name this person:
- King of Pontus who united 22 other small kingdoms also scared of Rome
- organized Aegeatic Vespurs (killed himself instead of getting captured by Roman Empire later on)
*bonus 50: what practice did his name give rise to?
Who is Mithridates VI of Pontus?
Mithridatism: ingesting poison to obtain an immunity to them
What was the Pontifex Maximus?
*50 bonus points if you can name the youngest person to ever be this
This is the chief high priest, usually, it is an old man who holds this title for life
*Julius Caesar was so popular that the people elected him.
What were the Aegiatic Vespurs?
Command given by Mithridates that killed over 88,000 Roman citizens under his rule
Name that date:
Roman republic begins to fall, year of Gracchus' term as Tribune
What is 133 BC?
Ignore this one! It's one of the terms we did not cover
peace brought about by Octavian
(Janus temple doors closed!)
`Name this person:
- best friend of Caesar👯
- helped kill Caesar 🔪 #backstabber
- Caesar was his mothers lover
*bonus 50: who is his parter in crime?
*bonus 100: what are their punishments in Dante's Inferno?
Who is M. Junius Brutus?
*partner in crime: C. Cassius Longinus
*Punishment: they get chewed by two of the faces of Satan in the ninth circle of hell
Latin name for these people:
- Roman politicians who sought to follow old traditional way of politics
Who were the Optimates?
Name this battle:
- all combined forces of Pompey vs. Caesar
- Caesar wins, Pompey flees to Ptolemy to form an alliance with them
*bonus 50: what happened to Pompey after he fled?
*bonus 100: what book alludes to this (^) event?
What was the Battle of Pharsalus?
* He promptly is beheaded as he steps on the beaches of Ptolemy, as they decided to side with Caesar
*Alluded to in the Aeneid