1. How do the roman soldiers gather and distribute loot after a batter? How does Polybius view this practice?

2. What might be come of the positive and negative consequences of this practice for rome as it expanded ?

3. What actions does the roman woman in this tombstone inscription take to defend and support her family and husband?

4. How did the military campaigns and civil wars of the roman republic affect women's lives, and how did they shape what were regarded as admirable qualitites in roman women?

5. According to Plutarch, which of galus gracchus's reforms made him especially popular with the people of Rome and its allies? Which ones made him especially unpopular with the senate?

6. How did Gracchus's new laws address the social, economic, and political problems of second-century-B.C.E. Rome?

7. What can you infer from these letters about how well prepared the conspirators and other leaders in senate such as Cicero were to take control of the government after caesar's death?

8. What do these sources suggest about cicero's importance and the role of his speeches in the senate?