Guided Reading 6-2: Expansion and Crisis
Questions and Answers
1. What were the road of Rome built to link?
a. Permanent military settlements.
2. What problems did Rome face in attempting to rule the vast territory from Spain to Asia
Minor?
a. Rome had trouble meeting the needs of the people they conquered; it drained their
resources.
3. What were four products produced on the latifundia
a. Grain, sheep, olives, fruit (grapes)
4. What was the effect of the latifundia on small farmers?
a. Small farmers were forced out of business
5. List four reforms proposed by the Gracchus brothers and the general Marius.
a.
b.
c.
d.
limited the size of latifundia
distributed land to the poor
let urban poor serve in military
paying soldiers and giving them land.
6. List five achievements of the Roman government under the leadership of Julius Caesar.
a. jobs for unemployed
b. land to the poor
c. citizenship for conquered peoples
d. representation for the provinces
e. new calendar
7. What were two contrasting ways the Romans viewed Julius Caesar?
a. Wise ruler who brought order to Rome; a tyrant who meant to end the republic and
make himself king.
8. What were the three parts of the Roman world as divided among the second triumvirate of
Octavian, Marc Antony, and Marcus Lepidus?
a. Greece and the east; Italy and the west; North Africa