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Augustus's greatest failure in his attempt to restore order and stability in Rome was his attempt to

Reform morals

The Romans were properly regarded has having made valuable contribution to the law because they

sought basic principles as a foundation to their legal system

When a Roman poet wrote that " conquered Greece took captive her rude conqueror," he meant that

Roman culture was based on Greek culture

List all Roman poets

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What city was destroyed, yet preserved, by a volcanic eruption?

Pompeii

What statement best represents Stoicism?

It is better to be good than happy.

The Septuagint is the translation of the Old Testament into

Greek

Jesus was born in the Roman province of

Judea

Persecution of the Christians began because

Christians refused to worship the emperor

Which meeting affirmed Christ's deity and the doctrine of the Trinity?

Council of Nicaea

Which 2 emperors introduced reforms which delayed the fall of the Roman Empire?

Diocletian and Constantine

What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Constantinople

What Roman engineering accomplishment supplied water to the cities?

aqueducts

Christ was brought before which Roman governor?

Pontius Pilate

What were the burial grounds established by Christians in order to avoid cremation called?

catacombs

What is the practice of withdrawing from all worldly cares and possessions and practicing strict discipline and religious exercises?

monasticism

Which ancient eastern city became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Byzantium

What did the Romans call anyone outside the empire who did not share in the Greek and Roman cultures?

barbarians

Who was the leader of the Visigoths?

Alaric

Name the fierce leader of the Huns known as the "scourge of God."

Attila

Galen- medical writer

Horace- poet of the Augustan Age

Josephus- Jewish historian

Juvenal- wrote bitter satires

Livy- historian who lived in the Augustan Age

Lucretius- Epicurean philosopher and poet

Marcus Aurelius- emperor and stoic who wrote "Meditations"

Ovid- wrote "Metamorphses"

Ptolemy-astronomer and mathematician

Seneca- Stoic philosopher

Tacitus- wrote Annals and Germania

Virgil- Aeneid

Constantine- legalized Christianity

Diocletian- conducted the most severe persecution of Christians

Nero- first persecutor of Christians

Theodosius I- divided the Roman empire for the final time

Tiberius- emperor during Christ's crucifixion

Titus- destroyed Jersualem

Essay: Discuss Rome's system of justice and the Roman contribution to the law

Essay: List and EXPLAIN three reasons for the decline of Rome.

Map: Constantinople, Black Sea, Gaul, Rome, Adriatic Sea, Egypt, Aegean Sea, Jerusalem, Judea, Mediterranean Sea

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