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The regime founded by Augustus in 27 BCE, in which he posed as leading citizen, was called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Roman soldiers in the paid professional army served a minimum of how many years?Read the answer and worked solution →In which notorious year did four emperors mount the throne in quick succession?Read the answer and worked solution →Which emperor's occupation of land across the Euphrates in 113-17 CE was the only major expansion of the early empire?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the population of the Roman Empire in the mid-second century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which three cities are named as the biggest urban centres of the Roman Mediterranean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which emperor of 253-68 excluded senators from military command?Read the answer and worked solution →A Roman calendar shows public shows, spectacula, filled how many days of the year?Read the answer and worked solution →A new aggressive dynasty arose in Iran in 225 CE. What did they call themselves?Read the answer and worked solution →How many emperors ruled Rome in 47 years of the third-century crisis?Read the answer and worked solution →Pompeii, with its widespread graffiti, was buried by a volcanic eruption in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Liquids like wine and olive oil were transported in containers called:Read the answer and worked solution →Under Augustus, Italy had 3 million slaves in a total population of how many?Read the answer and worked solution →Which first-century agricultural writer from Spain recommended work squads of ten?Read the answer and worked solution →Tacitus called the unkempt lower class, addicted to the circus, by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →In the early third century the Senate numbered roughly how many members?Read the answer and worked solution →Constantine founded the late Roman monetary system on which metal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which emperor of 284-305 separated civilian from military functions and fortified the frontiers?Read the answer and worked solution →Constantinople, Constantine's second capital, was earlier called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which post-Roman kingdom in Spain was destroyed by the Arabs between 711 and 720?Read the answer and worked solution →Justinian recaptured Africa from which people in 533?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Roman emperorsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Germanic tribesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Roman datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Roman coinsRead the answer and worked solution →Early or late empireRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the social groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Roman Empire bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Muhammad's tribe, the Quraysh, controlled Mecca's main shrine. What was this cube-like structure called?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The regime founded by Augustus in 27 BCE, in which he posed as leading citizen, was called the:

  1. Dominate
  2. Principate
  3. Republic
  4. Tetrarchy
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Correct answer: B. Principate

1. Princeps means leading citizen. 2. The fiction respected the Senate. 3. Augustus was the sole real authority. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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Roman soldiers in the paid professional army served a minimum of how many years?

  1. 25
  2. 10
  3. 15
  4. 40
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Correct answer: A. 25

1. Unlike Iran's conscript army, Rome's was paid. 2. Service lasted at least 25 years. 3. It reached 600,000 men by the fourth century. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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In which notorious year did four emperors mount the throne in quick succession?

  1. 79 CE
  2. 69 CE
  3. 27 BCE
  4. 14 CE
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Correct answer: B. 69 CE

1. The first two centuries were otherwise stable. 2. The year 69 CE saw four emperors. 3. Succession followed natural or adoptive descent. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 3, An Empire Across Three Continents._

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