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40 Cards in this Set
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Virgil
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Wrote the Aeneid
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Horace
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satarist who used gentle and playful wit to attack human folly
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Juvenal
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a biting satarist who severly reprimanded Roman ideas and culture
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Livy
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Historian who attempted to glorify Roman history
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Tacitus
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historian who wrote bitterly about Augustus and his successors
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Ptolemy
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came up with the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe
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Galen
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pushed frontiers of medical science to practical use
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Pliny the Elder
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a Roman scientist who compiled many topics into an encyclopedia
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Zealots
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group of Jews who opposed the Roman inteference in their society
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Jesus
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a Jew who founded Christianity
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Paul
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spread the teachings of Jeasus beyond the Jewish communities to gentiles.
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Constantine
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emperor who allowed Christianity to be practiced and built a new capitol (Constantinople)
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Edict of Milan
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an edict allowing Christianity to be practiced in the Roman empire
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Theodosius
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mother of Constantine who encouraged him to pass the Edict of Milan
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Origen
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a theologist who was respected for his intellectual achievements
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Augustine
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bishop of Hippo who wrote "The city of God)
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Diocletian
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emperor who tried to increase the prestige of the emperor and tried to slow down inflation
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Huns
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a nomadic people who migrated across Central Asia
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Alaric
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Visigoth General who overran Italy and plundered Rome
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Attila the Hun
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Hun leader who embarked on a savage campaign of conquest across much of Europe
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Odoacer
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Germanic leader who ousted the emperor in Rome
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Latins
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group of people who settled along the Tiber river around 800BC
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Etruscans
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group of people who lived north of Rome. For time they ruled much of central Italy, including Rome itself
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Laws of the Twelve Tablets
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a group of stones with the laws codified on them for the plebians to see
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Jupiter
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main god who ruled over the sky and other gods
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Carthage
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an empire that spread from N.Africa to the western Mediterranean
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Punic Wars
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Series of wars between Carthage and Rome
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Hannibal
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Carthaginian general who led his army on an epic march across the Pyrenees
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Cato
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senator who ended each speech with the saying "Carthage must be destroyed"
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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
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Two brothers who attempted to reform Rome. They were killed by senators and hired thugs in a wave of violence
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Julius Caesar
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ambitious military commander who conquered Gaul, became dictator of Rome, pushed through reforms, and was finally assassinated by the Senate
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Mark Anthony
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Caesar's chief general
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Octavian
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Caesar's grandnephew
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Caligula
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appointed his horse as senator
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Nero
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persecuted Christians and was blamed for setting a fire that destroyed much of Rome
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Hadrian
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codified Roman law
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Marcus Aurelius
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wrote Meditations and followed Plato's idea of a philosopher-king
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Pax Romana
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200-year span of peace in Rome
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Circus Maximus
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Large sports stadium where chariot races used to occur
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Greco-Roman Civilization
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blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman traditions
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