Quiz on the Late Roman Republic

This quiz focuses mostly on Rome's international relations in the last century and a half of the Roman Republic. It's a fascinating period with a range of sources, as described in "Chapter 1 - The crisis of the Republic: sources and source-problems," in Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146–43 BC, Second edition, edited by J. A. Crook, Andrew Lintott, Elizabeth Rawson. Should you wish to explore further, that chapter will provide leads to primary sources and writers who lived a bit later, but who still had access to primary materials. To simply get a taste for the times, please see the articles listed in Related Resources.

Related Resources • Third Punic War • Marius • Sulla • Mithradates • Palmyra • Greater Syria These resources should provide you with explanations for the answers to the quiz.

1. Which of these men is known for having started proscriptions?

Marius
Mithradates
Ptolemy
Sulla

2. What did the Carthaginians do to set in motion the Third Punic War?

They conquered Spain.
They fought against neighbors in North Africa.
They set up camp in Sicily.
They tried to win the allegiance of the Gauls and people of northern Italy against the Romans.

3. Which wealthy kingdom in Asia Minor was ceded to the Romans by a king, in his will, setting in motion Roman expansion to the east?

Egypt
Macedonia
Pergamum
Pontus

4. Which king did Mithradates of Pontus (the one known as Poison King) claim descent from?

Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia
Attalus III of Pergamum
Darius I of Persia
Tigranes I of Armenia

5. The conflict between Sulla and Marius can be traced back to receiving the honor for capturing which king?

Bocchus I of Mauretania
Jugurtha of Numidia
Mithradates of Pontus
Tigranes the Great of Armenia

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