Chapter 5

Front 1

NOT a Roman poet

Back 1

Juvenal

Front 2

Roman Historian

Back 2

Livy

Front 3

Was a Stoic

Back 3

Seneca

Front 4

Describes Stocism

Back 4

Happiness is the only good

Front 5

What was the capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Back 5

Constantinople

Front 6

Persecution of the Christians began because?

Back 6

Christians refused to worship the emporer

Front 7

Which meeting affirmed Christ's deity and the teaching of the trinity?

Back 7

Council of Nicea

Front 8

Which two emporers introduced reforms which delayed the fall of Rome for two centuries?

Back 8

Diocletian and Theodosius

Front 9

What city was destroyed, yet preserved, by the volcano eruption?

Back 9

Pompeii

Front 10

Which Emporer was known as the " Philosopher King"

Back 10

Marcus Auralius

Front 11

What phrase was used to describe the 200 year period of military and political stability in the Roman Empire?

Back 11

Pax Romana

Front 12

Emperor who had a battlefield coversion expeirnce and who decreed Christianity was a legal religion in the Empire

Back 12

Constantine

Front 13

In which stadium in Rome did as many as fifty thousand spectators witness the slaying of Christians?

Back 13

the Colosium

Front 14

Destruction of Jerusalem

Back 14

A.D. 70

Front 15

Legalization of Christianity

Back 15

A.D. 319

Front 16

Roman Empire permanently divided

Back 16

A.D. 395

Front 17

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Back 17

A.D. 476

Front 18

Although the Roman Empire lasted approximately 500 years, the time of Roman Peace was only about 200 years

Back 18

True

Front 19

Augustus's laws punishing immortality and limiting extravagant living failed to produce moral reform in Rome

Back 19

True

Front 20

One of the leading political figures and orators of the time was Cicero

Back 20

True

Front 21

Ptolmy was the most famous Greek writer in the Roman Empire

Back 21

False

Front 22

The gladiators fights were sponsored by the Roman emporors to win public favor and to keep the unemployed masses of Rome occupied

Back 22

True

Front 23

Epicureans in Rome interpreted "seek happiness as the only good" as allowing them to do anything that brought pleasure

Back 23

True

Front 24

The Roman persecution of the Christians caused a remarkable decline in Chrsitian growth

Back 24

False

Front 25

The Roman Empire's decline can be attributed to a combination of political, economic, and moral problems

Back 25

True