Question: Which group of people were now considered to be politically equal with the plebeians?
Answer: patricians

Question: Which group of people rebelled by vacating Rome?
Answer: The plebeians

Question: How many plebeian families had an identical standing as the old aristocratic patrician families?
Answer: A small number

Question: What did the rebelling plebeians want before they returned to Rome?
Answer: more rights

Question: What years did no important political changes happen during?
Answer: 287 BC and 133 BC

Question: Why was the senate considered to be supreme during this time?
Answer: because the era was dominated by questions of foreign and military policy

Question: What group of people often failed to use the power that was given to them?
Answer: the plebeians

Question: What was a political element that satiated the plebeians?
Answer: the possession of power

Question: Who enacted crucial laws during this period of time?
Answer: the senate

Question: What had caused citizens to vacate their farms?
Answer: long military campaigns

Question: How could a candidate assure the vote of a poverty stricken plebeian?
Answer: offered them the most

Question: What type of culture was a side effect of the rampant poverty of the average plebeian?
Answer: culture of dependency

Question: What caused the bankruptcy of many farmers during this era?
Answer: commodity prices fell

Question: Who had bought the now bankrupt farms?
Answer: landed aristocracy

Question: To what position was Tiberius Gracchus elected?
Answer: tribune

Question: Who had tried to enact a law that places a limit on the amount of property any single individual could possess?
Answer: Tiberius Gracchus

Question: When was Tiberius Gracchus murdered?
Answer: when he stood for reelection to the tribunate

Question: Which tribune was impeached by the Plebeian Council?
Answer: Marcus Octavius

Question: What was considered to be the opposite of Roman constitutional theory?
Answer: that a representative of the people ceases to be one when he acts against the wishes of the people

Question: In what year was Gaius elected to office?
Answer: 123 BC

Question: Who brought forward a law that would given citizenship right to Italian allies of Rome?
Answer: Gaius

Question: What is considered to be the end game of Gaius Gracchus?
Answer: weaken the senate and to strengthen the democratic forces

Question: Which elected official lost the election in 121 BC?
Answer: Gaius

Question: What was the location of the Gaius Gracchus murder?
Answer: Capitoline Hill in Rome

Question: Who was the illegitimate offspring of the King Micipsa of Numidia?
Answer: Jugurtha

Question: Who was Jugurtha's rival?
Answer: Gaius Marius

Question: When was Gaius Marius elected to the position of consul?
Answer: 107 BC

Question: Who did not agree with the election of Gaius Marius?
Answer: aristocratic senators

Question: Which individual did the populares part have an allegiance with?
Answer: Marius

Question: In what year was a Roman army dispatched to terminate the King of Pontus?
Answer: 88 BC

Question: Who was ordered by the senate to become commander in the conflict with King Mithridates?
Answer: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Question: What political party did Lucius Cornelius Sulla belong to?
Answer: populares

Question: Who had successfully passed a law whose sole purpose was to lessen the power of the tribunate?
Answer: Sulla

Question: What happened after Sulla returned to the conflict with Mithridates?
Answer: Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna soon took control of the city

Question: How many years was normal to span between offices prior to the populares controlling the city?
Answer: ten-year interval

Question: Who were slaughtered upon the arrival of Sulla in Rome?
Answer: most of Marius' supporters

Question: In what year did Sulla die?
Answer: 78 BC

Question: In what year did Sulla succesfully take over the populares controlled city?
Answer: 83 BC

Question: Which leader had achieved peace with Mithridates?
Answer: Sulla

Question: Where in the year 77 BC was an uprising?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which former lieutenant of Sulla had dismantled most of the constitution that Sulla had crafted?
Answer: Pompey

Question: In what year was the election held that let Pompey and Crassus obtain the seat of consul?
Answer: 70 BC

Question: Who was the instigator in the slave revolt in Italy?
Answer: Spartacus

Question: When did Pompey return to Rome after having quelled the uprising in Spain?
Answer: 71 BC

Question: When did the movement that considered the use of peaceful means to solve the plight of lesser classes begin?
Answer: Around 66 BC

Question: How many former consuls in Rome were executed as a result of a conspiracy?
Answer: one former consul

Question: What town was a common site of agitation within the area?
Answer: Faesulae

Question: Who can lay claim to the destruction of Lucius Sergius Catilina's forces?
Answer: Cicero

Question: Which individual had planned an uprising that ideally would see the death of most of the Roman senators?
Answer: Lucius Sergius Catilina

Question: In which year would Julius Caesar hope to be elected to the position of consul?
Answer: 59 BC

Question: What was the name of the private agreement between Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus?
Answer: First Triumvirate

Question: What was Crassus agree to receive in the First Triumvirate agreement?
Answer: a future consulship

Question: When did Julius Caesar return to Rome?
Answer: 61 BC

Question: What provided the Roman senate with exuberance?
Answer: successes against Catiline

Question: Who had tried to prevent the enactment of the laws that Caesar had proposed?
Answer: Bibulus

Question: What type of case saw Cicero testify against Clodius?
Answer: sacrilege case

Question: Who enacted a law that would increase the partial grain subsidy?
Answer: Clodius

Question: Which individual lost his home to a fire?
Answer: Cicero

Question: Who was elected to the tribunate in 58 BC?
Answer: Publius Clodius Pulcher

Question: Who was responsible for the attacks on followers of Pompey?
Answer: Clodius

Question: What political position were Pompey and Crassus assured they would receive in 55 BC?
Answer: consul

Question: What caused the death of Julius Caesar's female offspring?
Answer: childbirth

Question: Which individual ran for consul in 55 BC?
Answer: Domitius Ahenobarbus

Question: Who was responsible for an expedition against the Parthian Kingdom?
Answer: Crassus

Question: In which year did Clodius die?
Answer: 52 BC

Question: Who was responsible for the death of Clodius?
Answer: Milo

Question: Who did the senators decide would aid them in their conflict with Caesar?
Answer: Pompey

Question: What type of powers were granted to Pompey by the senate?
Answer: dictatorial

Question: Ultimately what forced the senate to abandon Rome and flee to Greece?
Answer: Caesar's rapid advance

Question: In Rome during this time who was considered to hold both the dictatorship and the position of the tribunate?
Answer: Caesar

Question: What power could Caesar use against the senate should he choose?
Answer: power to veto

Question: In what year was Caesar given the power of a censor?
Answer: 46 BC

Question: What is considered to have counteracted the prestige of the senatorial aristocracy?
Answer: raised the membership of the Senate to 900

Question: On what date was Caesar killed?
Answer: March 15, 44 BC

Question: Who comprised most of the members of the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar?
Answer: senators

Question: What did some members of the conspiracy believe Caesar would bring back?
Answer: the monarchy

Question: Why did many members of the senate flee the city after Caesar's death?
Answer: fear of retaliation

Question: Who did Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus lead the conspiracy against?
Answer: Caesar

Question: Who was soon allied with Caesar's adopted son following his death?
Answer: Mark Antony