Chapter 7 True or False Self-Quiz

. Augustus sped up the process of granting citizenship to slaves by designating all slaves throughout the empire as freedmen and freedwomen.

. In Augustus' reign, the most serious problems with defense lay with the provinces to the north.

. Octavian began his political career as one of Julius Caesar's trusted generals.

. Augustus himself claimed to have established the Roman Empire and deliberately styled himself as the first Roman emperor.

. The so-called "First Settlement" of Octavian consisted of his holding the office of Consul every year.

. Juba II, despite being taken into the households of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus, was for the Romans a notoriously untrustworthy client king of Numidia.

. Later Christian interpreters of Vergil’s "Fourth Eclogue" understood the poem to be a foreshadowing of the coming of Jesus Christ.

. Augustus' daughter Julia was found to have violated Augustus' morality laws, and was convicted of adultery and banished to a small island.

. By far the largest drain on the imperial treasury was the army.

. The Roman army was one of the major conduits for the extension of Roman culture into the provinces.

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