Chapter 9 True or False Self-Quiz

. The legal rights and social opportunities for women in the Roman Empire continued to expand in the first and second centuries CE.

. Hadrian spent much of his reign outside of Rome, visiting nearly every province.

. Nerva's succession by Trajan cemented the Flavian process of passing the throne from father to son.

. Every Roman citizen had the right to appeal directly to the emperor.

. Marcus Aurelius was devoted to Epicurean philosophy.

. Commodus' reign was a stringent one, marked by his own frugal tastes and a disdain for public extravagances like circus and gladiatorial games.

. By the third century CE there was a growing sense that all the traditional gods of the various parts of the empire represented the same extended divine family of a paternal sky god and his many offspring.

. The fan clubs for the four Roman chariot-racing teams sometimes had political affiliations.

. Trajan was the first emperor of non-Italian origin.

. The Jews were the only annexed people who engaged in repeated large-scale resistance to Rome.

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