Chapter 5 True or False Self-Quiz

. The Senate's Extortion Court was set up to try provincial governors for corruption, but was often used to settle scores against those governors' political enemies.

. Despite significant increases in economic resources brought on by territorial expansion, Roman public works and entertainments remained fairly static and slow to expand in the second century BCE.

. The Romans saw little reason to change their city-state form of government in order to accommodate the administrative challenges posed by all their foreign expansion.

. Rome's Republican Empire at this time extended from Spain in the west to Anatolia in the east.

. Rome relied less and less upon its Italian military allies over the course of the third to first century BCE.

. The goal of Epicureanism was the achievement of ataraxia, or "peace of mind."

. The aftermath of the death of Tiberius Gracchus saw the rise of two political parties, the optimates and the populares.

. In general, Roman women became more politically active and assertive in the second century BCE.

. All mystery religions centered around a dying god and required its initiates to commit to a lifetime of worship.

. The Romans borrowed the literary genre of satire from the Greeks.

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