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35 Cards in this Set
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Describe Rome's geography
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centrally located in Mediterranean Basin, Alps provided some protection, fertile soil
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Modern day France
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Gaul
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Our planets are named after
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Roman gods and goddesses
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Jupiter
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king of Roman gods
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Venus
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Goddess of love (Rome)
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patricians
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powerful nobility of Rome
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plebeians
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majority of Romans; commoners
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Laws of Rome
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12 Tables
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Rome's laws guaranteed
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Innocent until proven guilty
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Wars between Rome and Carthage
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Punic Wars
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Carthaginian general who invaded Rome during the Second Punic War
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Hannibal
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How did Rome gain control of the western Med. and trade through the region
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Victory against Carthage in Punic Wars
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Causes for the decline of the Roman Republic
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spread of slavery,
migration of small farmers to the cities, civil war and the death of Julius Caesar, and inflation |
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Why was Julius Caesar assassinated
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Some senators felt he was becoming too powerful
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who defeated Mark Antony to become Rome's first emperor
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Augustus
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who was the emperor who began the Pax Romana
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Augustus
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200 year period of peace and prosperity for the Roman Empire
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Pax Romana
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As Rome's empire grew, what happened to the power of the senate
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went down
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As Rome's empire grew, what happened to the power of the senate
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went down
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What was the impact of the Pax Romana
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uniform system of currency, safe travel and trade, expansion of the Roman Empire, social stability
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Who was the apostle who spread Christianity to the people of the Roman Empire
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Paul
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Which Roman emperor legalized and adopted Christianity
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Constantine
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Edict of Milan
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legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire (Constantine)
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book that tells of the life and teachings of Jesus
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New Testament
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3 monotheistic religions
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Judaism, Christiantiy, Islam
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monotheistic
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belief in one god
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As Rome's empire fell, what happened to the power of the Catholic Church
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it increased
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Roman architectural contributions
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dome, road, Pantheon, Colosseum, aqueduct, Roman arch
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language of Rome
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Latin
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the Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, etc.) are based on
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Latin
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writer of the Aenied
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Virgil
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belief in many gods
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polytheistic
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Why did the Western Roman Empire decline?
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cost of defense, inflation, moral decay, political problems, civil wars, unclear line of succession, invasions by barbarians
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Two reforms by Constantine
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legalized Christianity and move capital to Constantinople, previously Byzantium
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emperor who divided the Roman empire into East and West
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Diocletian
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