HIST 405 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025-2026
Julia Maesa - Answers -Sister of Julia Domna
-Lived with her daughters at Rome with the Severans
-Creates scheme to put family in power after Macrinus's army is in Syria
-Macrinus was overthrown and killed making her the most powerful
-First woman allowed in the Senate
Haruspicy - Answers -Reading of animals' livers
-Writings, omens
-Any sacrifice, priest will read the omens
-Temples maintain a group of "sacred animals"
Mithras - Answers -Cult associated with soldiers and men (women were not allowed to join)
-Persian Deity
Saul/Paul of Tarsus - Answers -Apostle
-Constantly raising money for the poor in Jerusalem
-Roman citizen
-Became a martyr after he was beheaded
-Pauline Christianity was associated with the gentiles, was the main focus of Christianity, and he
is considered the second founder (Christianity we see now)
--Focuses on non-Jews (gentiles)
The Gentile Question - Answers -Do we need to follow the rules or do we believe that Jesus is
the Messiah?
-Paul would say no
Septimius Severus - Answers -Part of the year of the 5 great emperors
-Avenger of Pertinax
-Owed loyalty to Marcus Aurelius
-Represents what it means to be Roman in the late second century
, -Born in North Africa
-Family held local office and incrementally gained citizenship
-Went through Roman education system
-Never really felt accepted into Rome
-Becomes leader of legion in Syria in 180
-He becomes a governor under Pertinax
-Married to Julia Domna
-Names his sons as Caesar and Albinus revolts with a major civil war in Gaul
-Ruthless because he killed Albinus's wife and children, wives and children of supporters are
killed, and mutilation of bodies
-Has himself adopted into family of Aurelius and claims Commodus is his brother
-Kills over 50 senators
-Wants to be seen similarly to Trajan
-Bureaucracy
-Creation of council that rules around emperors because the empire is where the emperor is
-Lower classes could rise up into the ranks
Marcomannic Wars - Answers -Series of wars that take place on the Danube frontier
-Confederation of tribes band together that we do not understand and begin invading the
frontier
-Devastating war
-Verus and Aurelius head back to home
-Aurelius is left as sole leader and gets frontier back in shape
-11,000 Dediticii people were defeated in battle and settle on Roman soil
Edict of Milan - Answers -Worship whatever you want to worship
-Tolerance of religions
-Constantine never makes traditional Greco-Roman polytheism illegal
Julia Maesa - Answers -Sister of Julia Domna
-Lived with her daughters at Rome with the Severans
-Creates scheme to put family in power after Macrinus's army is in Syria
-Macrinus was overthrown and killed making her the most powerful
-First woman allowed in the Senate
Haruspicy - Answers -Reading of animals' livers
-Writings, omens
-Any sacrifice, priest will read the omens
-Temples maintain a group of "sacred animals"
Mithras - Answers -Cult associated with soldiers and men (women were not allowed to join)
-Persian Deity
Saul/Paul of Tarsus - Answers -Apostle
-Constantly raising money for the poor in Jerusalem
-Roman citizen
-Became a martyr after he was beheaded
-Pauline Christianity was associated with the gentiles, was the main focus of Christianity, and he
is considered the second founder (Christianity we see now)
--Focuses on non-Jews (gentiles)
The Gentile Question - Answers -Do we need to follow the rules or do we believe that Jesus is
the Messiah?
-Paul would say no
Septimius Severus - Answers -Part of the year of the 5 great emperors
-Avenger of Pertinax
-Owed loyalty to Marcus Aurelius
-Represents what it means to be Roman in the late second century
, -Born in North Africa
-Family held local office and incrementally gained citizenship
-Went through Roman education system
-Never really felt accepted into Rome
-Becomes leader of legion in Syria in 180
-He becomes a governor under Pertinax
-Married to Julia Domna
-Names his sons as Caesar and Albinus revolts with a major civil war in Gaul
-Ruthless because he killed Albinus's wife and children, wives and children of supporters are
killed, and mutilation of bodies
-Has himself adopted into family of Aurelius and claims Commodus is his brother
-Kills over 50 senators
-Wants to be seen similarly to Trajan
-Bureaucracy
-Creation of council that rules around emperors because the empire is where the emperor is
-Lower classes could rise up into the ranks
Marcomannic Wars - Answers -Series of wars that take place on the Danube frontier
-Confederation of tribes band together that we do not understand and begin invading the
frontier
-Devastating war
-Verus and Aurelius head back to home
-Aurelius is left as sole leader and gets frontier back in shape
-11,000 Dediticii people were defeated in battle and settle on Roman soil
Edict of Milan - Answers -Worship whatever you want to worship
-Tolerance of religions
-Constantine never makes traditional Greco-Roman polytheism illegal
