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The quaestor ("the one who asks questions") was the oldest and lowest office on the cursus honorum, or "path of honor" in ancient Rome. worldhistory.org/Quaestor/

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The toga was a garment worn by men who were citizens of Rome which consisted of a single length of wool cloth cut in a semicircle and wrapped around the body of the wearer without any fastenings. worldhistory.org/article/48/th

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Lucius Cornelius Sulla (l. 138 - 78 BCE) enacted his constitutional reforms (81 BCE) as dictator to strengthen the Roman Senate's power. Sulla was born in a very turbulent era of Rome's history, which has often been described as the beginning of the fall of the Roman Republic. The political climate was marked by civil discord and rampant political violence where voting in the Assembly was somet...worldhistory.org/article/1481/

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