1. What complaints did the Roman plebeians have at the start of the fifth century B.C.? What the outcome of the patrician-plebian conflict?
2. What factors enabled Rome to conquer Italy?
3. What were the basic features of Rome's constitutional system around the middle of the third century B.C.?
4. What did the first two Punic Wars reveal about the character of the Roman people?
5. What were the consequences of Roman expansion?
6. How did Greek civilization influence Roman cultural life?
7. What were the causes of the agricultural crisis faced by Rome during the second century B.C.?
8. How did the Gracchi brothers try to deal with the agricultural crisis? Why were they opposed by Rome's leading families?
9. What was the significance of the struggle between Marius and Sulla?
10. How did Caesar try to cope with the problems afflicting Rome? Why was he assassinated?
11. For what reasons did the Roman Republic collapse?
12. To what extent were the institutions of the Republic ill-suited for governing a world empire?