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1. How many centuriae did the Comitia Centuriata consist of?
2. A centuria usually consisted of 60 men.
3. The office of censor was considered a high point of one's political career. How many censors could there be in any one term of office?
4. Which toga did the censors wore?
5. Censors did not posses an executive political power, so they were not accompanied by lictors.
6. What name was given to a political alliance between two politicians that united their voting units?
7. The office of an aedil was an launch-pad for young politicans. There were two types of aediles. What were they?
8. The equites formed the upper middle class. How many centuriae did they have in the comitia centuriata?
9. Dictators were appointed when the state was greatly threatened. They were appointed for a period of six months, had 24 lictors and were not held responsible for their actions during their dictatorship. When was the last LEGAL dictator appointed?
10. A bundle of rods tied together with a red band around an axe was called:
11. A flamen was a high priest of some state god. A choir of flamenes consisted of 15 members, of whom 3 were patrician and the rest plebeian. The three most influential flamenes were the flamen dialis, the flamen martialis and the __________.
12. The power of imperium included the right to summon and lead an army, the right to issue orders and prohibitions, and the right to carry out the death penalty. Both civil and military imperium was always indisputable and could not be a subject to appeals.
13. In Latin, consules means "those who walk together". If a consul died during his term, another would be elected, and be known as a:
14. Under the laws of the Republic, the minimum age for election as a consul for patricians was 41 years of age and for plebeians 42.
15. Beginning in the late Republic, after finishing a consular year, a former consul would usually serve a term as a Proconsul, the Roman Governor of one of the senatorial provinces. The most commonly chosen province for the proconsulship was Transalpine Gaul.
16. According to Livy the 'sella curulis 'originated in Etruria, but stools supported on a cross-frame are known from the:
17. During the reforms of Sulla in 81 BC, the minimum age for a quaestorship was set at 30 for patricians and at ___ for plebeians.
18. There were two main positions of a legatus. The legatus legionis was an ex-praetor given command of one of Rome's elite legions. What was the other position?
19. In the first century BC, praetors were magistrates who presided over disputes between citizens, and citizens and foreigners. The Praetores Urbani were individuals who had jurisdiction over cases involving citizens.
20. The Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs. This was the most important position in the Ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until _____ BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post.
21. Each year the Tribal Assembly elected 34 young men in their late twenties with senatorial ambitions to serve as Military Tribunes.
22. A Plebeian Tribune had the power to veto any act or proposal of a magistrate, including another tribune. What does veto mean in Latin?
23. In the time of grave danger, who served as the Dictator's main lieutenant?
24. The Senatus consultum ultimum effectively replaced the dictatorship, by giving the magistrates semi-dictatorial powers to preserve the State. Senatus consultum ultimum would in English be translated as _______________.
25. The princeps senatus was the first member by precedence of the Roman Senate. Although officially out of the cursus honorum and owning no imperium, this office brought enormous prestige to the senator holding it. Who was the first, by accounts, to hold that title?
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