Bailey Spring Exam Review Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pax Romana | 31 BC - 180 CE; period of general order, stability and cultural fluorishing in ancient Rome |
| Augustus | 27 BC - 14 AD; Caesar's adopted son - 1st Roman emperor |
| Philippi | Battle at which Antony and Augustus def. Brutus and Cassius |
| Actium | naval battle at which Augustus def. Antony and Cleopatra |
| Hadrian | emperor who strengthened Rome from within; built wall; ended war with Parthia |
| Marcus Aurelius | Roman emperor known for his stoic writings; professed that the body was an envelope for the soul |
| Septimus Severus | made Rome a military monarchy; most of his support came from the lower class |
| Diocletian | Roman emperor noted for his persecution of Christians |
| 235 - 285 CE | The Barracks Emperors (26) ruled from ___ to ___. |
| Saul/Paul of Tarsus | 1st missionary apostle; sent letters; conversion on road to Damascus |
| Trajan | Pliny wrote this emperor about the exclusivity issue |
| Mulvian Bridge | site/battle at which Constantine had his conversion |
| Edict of Milan | statement that allowed Christians to practice freely |
| Council at Nicea | gathering where consubstantiality issue was discussed; against the Arians |
| St. Augustine | most important father of the Church; wrote "City of God" and "City of Man" |
| Jerome | father of the Church focused on asceticism |
| Ambrose | father of the Church known for his commentaries on the Old and New Testaments |
| Petrine Doctorine | the statement used by popes, bishops of Rome, based on Jesus' words, to substantiate their claim of being the successors of St. Peter and heirs to his authority as chief of the apostles |
| St. Benedict | started the 1st monastic order (Benedictines) |
| Alaric | leader of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in 410 CE |
| Romulus Augustulus | last Roman emperor in the West |
| Theodora | Justinian's wife |
| Procopius | one of Justinian's advisors; wrote the Secret History and the Public History |
| Constantinople | known as the 2nd Rome |
| Corpis Juris Civilis | "the body of civil law"; made up of the Code, the Digest, and the Institutes |
| Alamanni | battle at which Clovis declares he will convert if he wins |
| Clothilde | wife of Clovis |
| Charles Martel | mayor of the palace (Carolingian);developed strong cavalry |
| Tours | battle at which Charles Martel stopped the furthest advance of Muslim invaders |
| Pepin | 1st Carolingian king - father of Charlemagne |
| Lombards | group which Pepin defeated whose land in Central Italy he gave to the pope |
| Leo III | Pope who crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD |
| Treaty of Verdun | 843 CE; divided territories of Charlemagne between his 3 surviving grandsons |
| Shihuangdi | 1st Chinese Emperor; legalistic; formation of centralized China |
| Si Li | legalist advisor to Shihuangdi; ordered for census and helped bureacracy with public works |
| Liu Bang | 1st Han emperor; adopted more humane approach; cancelled harsh laws and reduced taxes |
| Wudi | "War Emperor"; education was main goal (est. public schools) |
| Xiongnu | the Huns |
| Han | The Silk Road developed most under this dynasty |
| Sima Qian | great Chinese historian; focused on causation and current government events |
| junzi | Chinese term for "gentleman" |
| Sui Dynasty | Dynasty that built the Great Canal and established graineries |
| Tang Dynasty | Dynasty that divided the administration into departments |
| Nara | Japanese capital |
| Shinto | native Japanese religion |
| feudalism | the system by which power is diffused and limited |
| traditores | Christians who were willing to accept the state religion of Rome but not follow it completely |
| Rome | "Mother of the World" |
| Moscow | "3rd Rome" |
| Aachen | Charlemagne's Constantinople or center of the Carolingian Renaissance |
| jihad | "holy war" |
| Khadija | Muhammad's wife |
| Fatima | daughter of Muhammad |
| Rollo | The Normandy region was granted to whom in the year 911? |
| Runic | language of the Vikings |
| saga | Viking equivalent of an epic poem |
| Stephen of Cloyes | leader of the children's crusade |
| Augustine | 1st Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Kebre Negast | Ethiopian national epic |
| Frumentius | attributed with the introduction of Christianity to Ethiopia |
| Nok | people of north central Nigeria renown for their iron-working skills |
| Niani | capital of Mali |
| Mansa Musa | king of Mali; convert to Islam |
| Swahili | a dialect of Bantu spoken on the East coast of Africa throughout the trade centers |
| val | Viking term for a warrior who dies in battle |
| Cluniacs | revitalized group of Benedictines |
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