STUDIES
1. On an outline map indicate the additions to Roman territory: during the reign of Augustus, 31 B.C.-14 A.D.; during the period 14-180 A.D.
2. On an outline map indicate ten important cities of the Roman Empire.
3. Connect the proper events with the following dates: 79 A.D.; 180 A.D.; and 14 A.D.
4. Whom do you consider the greater man, Julius Caesar or Augustus? Give reasons for your answer.
5. Compare the Augustan Age at Rome with the Age of Pericles at Athens.
6. What is the Monumentum Ancyranum and its historic importance (illustration Monumentum Ancyranum, section 66. Augustus, 31 B.C.-l4 A.D., topic The Augustan Age)?
7. How did the worship of the Caesars connect itself with ancestor worship?
8. In the reign of what Roman emperor was Jesus born? In whose reign was he crucified?
9. How did the "year of anarchy" after Nero's death exhibit a weakness in the imperial system?
10. How many provinces existed under Trajan?
11. What modern countries are included within the limits of the Roman Empire in the age of Trajan?
12. Compare the extent of the Roman Empire under Trajan with (a) the empire of Alexander; and (b) the empire of Darius.
13. Give the Roman names of Spain, Italy, Gaul, Germany, Britain, Scotland, and Ireland.
14. Contrast the Roman armies under the empire with the standing armies of modern Europe.
15. Trace on the map, page 205, the Roman roads in Britain.
16. "To the Roman city the empire was political death; to the provinces it was the beginning of new life." Comment on this statement.
17. Why should Rome have made a greater success of her imperial policy than either Athens or Sparta?
18. Compare Roman liberality in extending the franchise with the similar policy displayed by the United States.
19. Compare the freedom of trade between the provinces of the Roman Empire with that between the states of the American Union.
20. On the map, page 48, trace the trade routes during imperial times.
21. Compare as civilizing forces the Roman and the Persian empires.
22. What was the Pax Romana? What is the Pax Britannica?
23. Compare the Romanization of the ancient world with that process of Americanization which is going on in the United States to-day.
24. Explain this statement: "The Roman Empire is the lake in which all the streams of ancient history lose themselves and which all the streams of modern history flow out of."
25. "Republican Rome had little to do, either by precept or example, with the modern life of Europe, Imperial Rome everything." Can you justify this statement?