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What resulted in a civil war between the followers of Marius and Sulla?

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  1. Sulla's attempt to push through a land distribution bill in the Senate.

  2. Marius's attempt to push through a land distribution bill in the Senate.

  3. Marius's attempt to push through a widow remarriage bill in the Senate.

  4. Sulla's attempt to push through a widow remarriage bill in the Senate.

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Correct Option: B

As Rome was growing in Italy, Carthage was growing in power in ______.

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  1. South America

  2. North Africa

  3. North America

  4. East Asia

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Correct Option: B

When did Romans establish a republic?

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  1. 450 BCE

  2. 490 BCE

  3. 509 BCE

  4. 529 BCE

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Correct Option: C

In the Roman state, the slave trade was a major source of revenue. Which island became the great slave market?

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  1. The island of Delos

  2. The island of Elba

  3. The island of Stromboli

  4. The island of Ponza

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The island of Delos in the eastern Mediterranean was made a free port in 166 BC and became one of the main market venues for slaves. Multitudes of slaves who found their way to Italy were purchased by wealthy landowners in need of large numbers of slaves to labor on their estates. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest of the options, the French Emperor Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Stromboli is a volcanic island which was often deserted, and Ponza has the ancient basins built in the 1st century BC by the Romans for breeding moray eels. Hence, these are incorrect. 

What does the period starting from Augustus's reign (27 BCE) known as?

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  1. Principate

  2. Renaissance

  3. Reformation

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The Principate is the name sometimes given to the first period of the Roman Empire from the beginning of the reign of Augustus in 27 BC to the end of the Crisis of the Third Century in 284 AD, after which it evolved into the so-called Dominate. Hence, Option A is correct.
Among the rest of the options, The Renaissance was a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to Modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
 The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a movement within Western Christianity in the sixteenth-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Roman Catholic Church and papal authority in particular. Hence, these are incorrect. 

Who was the first Roman Emperor to send an embassy to China and establish contact with an Asian power?

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  1. Trajan

  2. Antoninus Pius

  3. Marcus Aurelius

  4. Augustus

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Correct Option: C

During the period of Principate, the ______ became far more prosperous than under the republic.

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  1. Peasant class

  2. Imperial ruling class

  3. Landless labourer

  4. All of the above

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Correct Option: B

When did the revolt of Spartacus take place?

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  1. 43 BCE

  2. 53 BCE

  3. 63 BCE

  4. 73 BCE

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Correct Option: D

When did Augustus die?

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  1. 14 CE

  2. 24 CE

  3. 34 CE

  4. 44 CE

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Correct Option: A

Each of the following were elements of the Silk Road and/or Indian Ocean Trade Network in the 500-1500 period EXCEPT:

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  1. Monsoon winds were important geographical elements.

  2. Luxury goods were traded most.

  3. Africa was exempt from the network.

  4. Arab merchants dominated ocean trade.

  5. European merchants renewed trade with East and South Asia.

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Correct Option: C