Ch5-Rome-Review
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43 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Good Emperors |  They expanded the empire and provided honest administration |
| Galen | Rome's greatest authority on medicine |
| Diocletian | He changed the Principate into an absolute monarchy and helped transform society into a bureaucratic and rigid order. |
| Actium | At this battle, Octavian defeated Marc Antony. |
| Monasticism | During the 300s CE, many people hoped to recapture a spirit of Christian humility through this practice. |
| Pax Romana | This period of pease existed during the reigns of the Julian-Claudians, Flavians, and the Good Emperors. |
| Ides of March | March 15th, J.Caesar was murdered on this date. |
| Inflation | This term refers to a dramatic, and dangerous, rise in prices. |
| Jesus | He taught his followers the rules of loving God above all else, and loving others as they loved themselves. |
| Hadrian | His famous defensive fortifications included an 80 mile long wall in northern Britain. |
| Galla Placidia | After being taken prisoner by the Visigoths, this person returned to Rome and became a great patron of the arts. |
| Censors | They registered the Roman population and recorded each person's wealth and residence. |
| Theodosius the Great | in AD380, he outlawed all religious worship except Christianity. |
| Constantine | He issued the Edict of Milan, maklng Christianity legal within the Roman Empire. |
| Holy Trinity | This was affirmed by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 as the uniform doctrine for all Christianity. |
| Gracchi | These brothers were killed by mobs incited by the Senate because they wanted to redistribute land to the poor. |
| Social War | As a result of this civil war, the Senate granted citizenship to Rome's Italian allies. |
| Constantinople | Name of the second capital established by Constantine. |
| Rabbis | Jewish scholars who interpreted the Scriptures and were learned in religious law. |
| Plebeians | In order to protect themselves against unjust treatment by patricians, they elected their own officials called Tribunes. |
| Augustus | This emperor restored order to the empire and revitalized the city of Rome |
| Simon Bar Kokhba | He led a Jewish revolt against Rome |
| Spartacus | He led a large slave rebellion |
| Julius caesar | He was murdered by a group of senators who wanted to preserve the Roman Republic. |
| Octavian | In 27 b.c., the Senate gave this man the title of Augustus. |
| Praetors | Elected officials who served primarily as judges. |
| Paul | This man transformed Christianity into a universal religion. |
| Attila | This man was defeated by the Romans and the Visigoths in a great battle at Chalons |
| Conflict of the Orders | This shaped the Roman constitution and the structure of Roman Society. |
| Caracalla | In an effort to collect more taxes, ???? granted Roman citizenship to all free people of the empire. |
| Nobilitas | Society in the Roman Republic was dominated by the ????? |
| Jesus | His teachings were reconciled with with Greek philosophy in order to make Christianity more acceptable to the Roman population. |
| Law of the Twelve Tables | The ???? defined the rights of plebeians and patricians. |
| Flavians | This groupe of emperors who claimed the throne after AD 60 were from Italian provinces outside of Rome. |
| Diocletian | This emperor divided the empire in two in order to make administration more efficient. |
| Soldiers | During the Pax Romana, most agricultural activies were performed by ??? |
| Aqueduct | A man-made channel constructed to bring water to the Roman cities. |
| Augustan Age | Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Virgil contributed to Roman culture during the???? |
| Monotheism | A belief in one god |
| Apostolic succession | This term refers to the idea that Jesus' disciples passed on their authority to their own followers? |
| Good Emperors | After Nero's death and a series of civil wars, peace was restored to the empire by the ????? |
| Virgil | Who wrote the Aeneid? |
| Saint Basil | He developed plans and rules for monastic communities based on a life of devotion and self-denial. |
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