Cursus Honorum
What was the top role in the Cursus Honorum?
consul
What was the name of Marius' wife and who was she?
Julia, Caesar's aunty
What did Sulla demand Caesar do during his dictatorship?
divorce his wife
Who was the last dictator of the Roman Republic?
Julius Caesar
What were the two factions in government?
optimates and populares
Who was responsible for the census?
censor
Sulla created a list of names with people who he wanted dead. This is called...?
proscriptions
Name all three members of the First Triumvirate
Caesar, Pompey, Crassus
Where did Caesar make a speech and associate himself with Marius to try and gain more support as a politician?
his aunty's funeral
Who did Cicero support as the person to take over from Caesar?
Octavian/Augustus
What were the quaestors in charge of?
treasury
What was one consequence of Marius' reforms to the military?
non-landowners could volunteer, Generals had to raise their own troops, soldiers loyal to their General not Rome, soldiers got paid, Rome had a standing professional army
Why did their alliance need to be secret?
Because it was illegal to conspire and hoard power
What was the name of the initial conflict between the plebs and patricians when the republic was first established?
Conflict of the Orders
List all of the names of the first Roman Emperor
Octavius, Octavian, Augustus
What was the praetor in charge of?
judiciary and military commands
Marius was consecutively elected as consul an unprecedented number of times. What was it?
5
What did the senate tell Pompey to do and what was Caesar's response?
Pompey had to bring Caesar back to Rome and he crossed the Rubicon River, declaring war on Rome
Where does Caesar go after the Senate uncover his secret alliance with Pompey and Crassus?
Gaul (France)
Name all three members of the Second Triumvirate
Octavian, Mark Antony, and Lepidus
How many people's assemblies were there?
4
How did Marius and Sulla's relationship first start to deteriorate?
Marius took credit for a surrender that Sulla negotiated from their enemy
Name the two reasons that the alliance between Caesar and Pompey broke down.
Death of Julia (Caesar's daughter and Pompey's wife)
Death of Crassus (the third member of their allaince)
Who were the two main conspirators in Caesar's assassination?
Cassius and Brutus
Which famous general were the Gracchi brothers related to (20 points) and how (30 points)
Scipio Africanus was their maternal grandfather
Where did the Senate get it's authority?
mos maiorum (unofficial, unwritten code of values)
How did Marius trick Sulla, and essentially cause the civil war between them?
Marius tricked Sulla into accepting a proposed law so he could take command of Sulla's troops
Specify the ways that Pompey and Crassus helped Caesar become consul once their alliance was formed.
Pompey - used troops to intimidate voters
Crassus - used money to fund campaign
In 61 BCE, Caesar was sent to govern the same region Marius was once in charge of. Where is it?
Spain - Hipsania Ulterior
What was the name of the law that Tiberius Gracchus proposed? OR What did it propose to change?
Lex Agraria - limit the amount of land that people could own so that farmers had more of a chance