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37 Cards in this Set
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Plebians |
80% of population; lower class |
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Patricians |
Rest of population; nobility |
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Foederati |
Barbarians that were let in as soldiers in Rome |
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Imperium |
Power to lead the army |
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Struggle of the Orders |
Plebians and Patricians fight for Roman Republic |
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Optimates |
Elites within the Upper Class |
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Augustus |
Title given to the first emperor, Octavian; means "The Blessed" |
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Pax Romana |
28 BC-180 AD; Peace of Rome |
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Triumvirate |
(3 men working together) 1st Triumvirate: Caesar, Crassus, Pompey 2nd Triumvirate: Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian |
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Eucharist |
In Christianity, bread turns into the body of Christ |
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Wergeld |
Man-price |
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Comitatus |
"gefolgen"; fighting bands |
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Excommunication |
Kicked out of church and automatically go to hell |
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Great Persecution |
303-313 AD; Diocletian attacks Christians |
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Latifundia |
Large slave-run estates |
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Council of Nicaea |
325 AD; Deals with Arian heresy |
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Vulgate Bible |
St. Jerome translates Bible from Greek to Latin |
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Arianism |
Went against the belief that Jesus is coequal with the Holy Spirit and God the Father |
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Jews |
Christians came out of Judaism |
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Paterfamilias |
Father is the head of the household |
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Etruscians |
Ruled over Romans; not native to Italy |
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Hannibal |
Carthage general; fights two battles: wins Cannai and loses Zama |
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Scipio Africanus |
Defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama |
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Visigoths |
Barbarian tribe; fights at Battle of Adrianople |
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The Gracchi |
2 brothers: Tiberius and Gaius: Start Roman Civil war |
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Julius Caesar |
War lord who tries to take over Roman Republic; assassinated in 44 BC |
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Marc Antony |
Part of 2nd Triumvirate; Relationship with Cleopatra; Ends up committing suicide |
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Brutus and Cassius |
Co-conspirators in killing Caesar |
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Augustine of Hippo |
Writes Confessions and City of God |
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Zealots |
Jewish terrorists |
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Jesus of Nazareth |
The Son of God |
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Paul of Tarsus |
Christians' first theologian; spreads Christianity outside of Judea |
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Suetonius |
Writes Lives of the Caesars (about scandals) |
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Ambrose of Milan |
Christian bishop; starts fight between church and state |
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Tacitus |
Historian that writes Annales (about Roman emperors ) and Germania (about Germans) |
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Constantine |
Becomes emperor in 312 AD; Adopts Christianity |
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Adrianople north of Cannae and Med Sea; Med Sea north of Carthage and Zama; Black Sea north of Byzantium; Byzantium to the right of Nicaea Hadrian's wall in between Scotland and England; Irish Sea to the left, North Sea to the right |
