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The twins ____ & ______ founded Rome by the ____ River
Romulus
Remus
Tiber
Italy has the ____ Sea to the east and the ___ to the west. Both seas are part of the ____ Sea.
Adriatic
Tyrrhenian
Mediterranean
About 300 years after Rome was founded, the ____ took power.
Etruscans
Romans eventually defeated the ____ in 509 BC,but adopted many of their ideas.
Etruscans
The Romans disliked the king concept of the Etruscans, so the made a ____.
republic
A ___ is a form of government where the people vote for their leaders, who then rule on behalf of the people.
republic
The most powerful part of the government was the ___.
senate
Upper class men of the senate, of which there were 300, were called...
patricians
Ordinary citizens were known as....
plebeians
The two men who led the senate were called the ....
consuls
If both consuls did not agree on an issue, then the issue was dropped. This was called a ___.
veto
In an emergency, the consuls gave power to a ____ who could only hold office for 6 months.
dictator
The plebeians were often jobless because the patricians used ____ to do work for free, instead of hiring plebeians.
slaves
Because of conflict between plebeians and patricians, the Laws of ___ ____ was created and applied to all people.
Twelve Tables
Because of fighting and bickering among the patricians and plebeians, a new dictator arose named ....
Julius Caesar
After conquering Gaul, ___ returned to conquer the ___ in Rome.
Caesar
senate
Caesar seemed a lot like a ___, so the senate members ___ killed him.
king
killed
Many years later, Caesar's son, _____ , held power and had the title ____
Octavian
Augustus
Gaul is present day ___
France
Romans divided areas into ...
provinces
Structures that carried water ove long distances were called...
aqueducts
One of the worst emperors that Rome had was...
Caligula
One of the best emperors that Rome had was...
Hadrian
Many Romans went to study art, architecture, and government in...
Greece
The greatest Roman building ever made was the ___. It could hold 50 000 spectators
Colosseum
The____ even had elevators to lift animals up from below the arena.
Colosseum
There was much prosperity and peace during the rule of ____. He was liked.
Augustus
Arena shows in Rome were called...
circuses
A poet who wrote about eh early Roman empire was...
Martial
The rich lived in nice homes in the ...
city
Poor people usually lived in ___ with no running water, toilets, or kitchens.
apartments
Slaves who worked in ____ had better lives than those who worked in ___.
households
mines
In the ____ slaves were often sacrificed or fed to the ...
circuses
animals
A savior was a ...
Messiah
Jesus' followers were called...
disciples
Stories written by the disciples were called...
gospels
Four well known disciples of Jesus were ___ ___ ___ ___
Matthew Mark
Luke John
Letters to Christian groups in distant cities were called...
Epistles
People who choose to die for a cause they believe in are called....
martyrs
The founder of Christianity is....
Jesus
A disciple of Jesus who spread the word of Jesus later in life was....
Paul
A Roman Emperor who was known for hiw mistreatment of Christians was...
Nero
Judea is the same city as....
Jerusalem
Judea was the ____ capital.
Israeli
Jesus promised that whoever followed him and believed in him would....
have everlasting life.
The Romans believed that Jesus would lead an...
armed revolt
The Christians refused to believe in....
Roman gods or follow Roman emperors
Jesus told the Romans that there is only one....
true God
Jesus' God is more ___ and ___ than any of the Roman gods or e____.
loving
caring
emperors
The religion Jesus leads is called...
Christianity
The Mediterranean Sea's name means...
our sea
He was so liked that Rome's senate gave ___ as much power as he wanted.
Augustus
Each ___ had a Roman governor supported by an army and often had a capital city.
province
The language of the Romans was...
Latin
Emperor ___ murdered his half-brother, mother, and wife.
Nero
Emperor ___ had laws that protected women, children, and slaves and encouraged learning.
Hadrian
The last of the good emperors was ....
Marcus Aurelius
The Romans took many of their "building" ideas from the....
Greeks
A strong building technique created by the Romans was the ....
arch
The Romans were noted for their well built ____ and they all seemed to go to Rome.
roads
Every 1000 paces on a Roman road could be found a...
milestone
Roman roads were ___ in the center to allow water to run off into ___ on the side of the road.
higher
ditches
The Roman ruler, ____, used Roman law to create a famous code of justice.
Justinian
The US Bill of Rights was influenced by ___'s laws.
Justinian
Most Romans were ___ and ___.
poor
jobless
Ruler of Judea was....
Herod
Jesus was born during the reign of ___ in ___
Herod
Bethlehem
Jesus was put to death by being...
crucified
Early Christians worshiped in secret in underground passageways called....
catacombs
The first public hospital in Wesern Europe was founded by a Christian named _____, a rich Roman noblewoman
Fabiola
The emperor, ______, may have been the first Christian emperor.
Constantine
Most of the weak, corrupt rulers between 180-284 AD were...
murdered
In 476 AD, the last Roman emperor was...
driven from the throne
Foreign soldiers who serve only for pay are called...
mercenaries
Rome's army in its dying days were made of ____ instead of loyal citizens.
mercenaries
The Roman Empire had gotten so ___ that it couldn't rule from one place anymore, and got easily overrun.
big
Because the dying Roman empire had fewer people paying taxes, those who remained had to...
pay even more taxes (which wasn't very popular)
When they made more money with less silver, the money has ____ value.
less
When money gets less value and can buy less, we call the situation....
inflation
It was emperor Constanine that made ____ the accepted religion of the Roman Empire.
Christianity
After Constantine died, ___ tribes, or barbarians from the north overran the Empire.
Germanic
The last emperor to persecute Christians was...
Diocletian