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29 Cards in this Set
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Cicero
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a Roman orator who
made speeches calling on Romans to work together to make Rome a better place; wanted the Senate to have total control of the government |
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orator
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a public speaker
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Julius
Caesar |
a powerful Roman
general who conquered much land and later became dictator of Rome; killed in 44 BC |
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Augustus
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Caesar’s adopted son
who became sole ruler of Rome after Marc Antony’s death; Rome’s first emperor |
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provinces
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areas outside of Italy
that the Romans controlled |
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currency
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money
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Pax
Romana |
a time of peace and
prosperity that lasted for the first 200 years of the Roman Empire |
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aqueduct
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a raised channel used to
carry water |
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Ovid
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a Roman poet who
wrote about Roman mythology |
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Romance
languages |
languages that
developed from Latin, such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian |
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civil law
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a legal system based on
a written code of laws |
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Christianity
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a religion based on the
teachings of Jesus of Nazareth that developed in Judea at the beginning of the first century AD |
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Jesus of
Nazareth |
Christianity is based on
the teachings of this man. |
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Messiah
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in Judaism, a new leader
that would appear among the Jews and restore the greatness of ancient Israel |
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Bible
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the holy book of
Christianity |
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crucifixion
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a type of execution in
which a person was nailed to a cross |
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Resurrection
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in Christianity, Jesus’s
rise from the dead |
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disciples
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followers
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Apostles
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the 12 chosen disciples
of Jesus who spread his teachings |
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Paul of
Tarses |
a follower of Jesus’s
teachings who spread Christianity after Jesus’s death; considered by many to be an additional Apostle |
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martyr
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a person who dies for
his or her beliefs |
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persecution
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the punishment of a
group because of its beliefs |
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Constantine
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the first Christian
emperor of Rome |
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Diocletian
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a Roman emperor who
divided the empire into two parts and ruled the eastern half of the empire and named a coemperor to rule the west |
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Attila
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a brilliant leader of the
Huns who raided Roman territory in the east |
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corruption
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the decay of people’s
values |
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Justinian
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a Byzantine emperor
who tried to reunite the old Roman Empire |
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Theodora
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an empress of the
Byzantine Empire; the wife of Justinian |
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Byzantine
Empire |
the society that
developed in the eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the western Roman Empire |
