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21 Cards in this Set
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Republic |
Period when Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman senate |
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Senate |
A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families
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Patron/Client Relationship |
A fundamental social relationship in which the patron provides legal and economic protection and assistance to clients, men, or lesser status, and in return the clients supported the political careers and economic interests of their patron |
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Principate |
A term used to characterize Roman government in the first three centuries |
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Augustus |
Honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate |
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Equites |
In ancient Italy, prosperous landowners second in wealth and status to the senatorial aristocracy
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Pax Romana |
"Roman Peace"
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Romanization |
The process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western provinces |
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Jesus |
A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices |
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Paul |
A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia, he persecuted the followers of Jesus, but later became a Christian
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Aqueduct |
A conduit that used gravity to carry water from a source to a city that needed it
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Third-Century Crisis |
Historians' term for the political, military, and economic turmoil that beset the Roman Empire during the 3rd century
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Constantine |
Roman Emperor
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Qin |
A people and state in the Wei Valley of eastern China that conquered rival states and created the first Chinese Empire
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Shi Huangdi |
Founder of the Qin Dynasty and creator of the Chinese Empire
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Han |
A term used to designate the ethnic Chinese people who originated in the Yellow River Valley; the dynasty of emperors
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Xiongnu |
A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China |
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Gaozu |
The throne name of Liu Bang
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Sima Qian |
Chief astrologer for the Han dynasty emperor Wu
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Chang'an |
City in the Wei Valley in eastern China
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Gentry |
The class of prosperous families from the emperors drew their administrative personnel |
