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35 Cards in this Set
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What happened on
March 15, 44 BCE? |
Julius Caesar was murdered
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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 |
Hannibal
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How did Rome gain control of the
western Med. and trade through the region |
Victory against Carthage
in the Punic Wars |
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Causes for the decline of the
Roman Republic |
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 and that could end the Republic |
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who defeated Mark Antony to
become Rome's first emperor |
Octavian and then he took the
name Caesar Augustus |
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who was the emperor who began
the Pax Romana? |
Caesar Augustus
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200 year period of peace and
prosperity for the Roman Empire |
Pax Romana
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As Rome's empire grew, what
happened to the power of the senate? |
it became less and less powerful
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What was the impact of the
Pax Romana? |
uniform system of currency
safe travel and trade expansion of the Roman Empire greater social stability |
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Who was the apostle who spread
Christianity to the people of the Roman Empire? |
Paul
formerly Saul of Tarsus |
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Which Roman emperor legalized
and converted to Christianity |
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? |
it increased
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Roman architectural contributions:
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domes, roads, aqueducts, arch
vaulted ceilings, concrete Pantheon, Colosseum |
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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 all based on ___ |
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? |
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 |
Diocletian
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Capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Constantinople
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Geographical advantages
of Constantinople: |
easily protected, away from Germanic
invasions, crossroads of trade, close to Silk Road, great harbor |
