| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Rome | a city that was gaining power at the time of Athens and Sparta |
| Sicily | the island that was west of the "toe" of italy, had good farmland |
| Alps | europe's highest mountain range, iceman body found there |
| Apennine Mountains | backbone of italian peninsula, makes it diffficult to travel through Italy |
| Latium | a fertile plain, in rome, located on the west coast of central itlay. |
| Tiber river | river that runs through the Latium plain |
| Plebeians | Men who farmed, traded, and made things for a living in ancient rome |
| Patricians | a few people, members of the noble roman families |
| Livy | Roman historian, said the plebeians revolted in 494 B.C. |
| Representatives | people who were sent to act for a body of people |
| Senate | the oldest and most powerful branch of the roman republic (300) people |
| Tribunes | branch or roman republic, made sure plebians had rights |
| Twelve Tablets | a collection of laws on 12 wooden tablets |
| Fourm | center of life for rome ( a place ) |
| Carthage | located on th northern part of Africa, controlled land around mediterranean sea including Sicily |
| Punic Wars | the conflicts between Rome and Carthage, Rome won, gained land |
| Hannibal | Led his army from carthage to rome, rome defeated him |
| Scipio | 25 year old roman general elected as a consul, Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC) |
| Zama | the battle at which carthage surrendered, the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War |
| Pax Romana | a period of peace in Rome started under Augustus' rule, lasted about 200 years |
| Julius Caeser | A military commander who became Dictator |
| Gaul | an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands |
| Civil war | an armed war between groups inside one country |
| Cleopatra | 21 year old ruler of the egyptian govermentbased on Alexandria |
| Dictator | someone who has total control over an area |
| Augustus | made rome a strong empire, started the Pax Romana |
| Aqueducts | used to bring fresh water into the city |
| census | count of people in an empire |
| gladiators | for fun, fought animals or other romans |
| Colosseum | help about 50,000 people, acted like an arena for events |
| Panthenon | a temple, honored all of the roman gods |
| Judea | a region that was once know as Canaan |
| Christianity | a collection of books called the new testament, religon |
| New Testanment | Combined with the old testament make the bible, stories about Jesus' time and teachings |
| Bethlahem | a small town south of Jerusalem |
| Jesus | When mary was in bethlahem, this was her son |
| Nazareth | a tiny village in the northern hills of judea |
| Messiah | special leader sent by God to guide jews to set up god's rule on earth. |
| parables | simple stories that contain the message or truth |
| Apostles | 12 men Jesus had chosen to help Him in his teaching |
| Peter | an apostle who had fished for a living before joing Jesus |
| Bishop | regional church leaderof Rome |
| Pope | leading branch of christianity |
| Diocletian | came to power, rome split in two, powerful general |
| Palestine | Roman name for judea |
| Constantine | Re-united Rome under his rule, but foucused on the eastern side of the empire |
| Constantinople | a greek colony, became great empire |
| Byzantine empire | eastern half of empire that lived on for 1,000 more years |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity | Thought that the pope could only speak for the church, |
| architecture | the science and planning and constructing buildings |
| Roman Catholicism | western part of rome's new type a christianity |
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