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17 Cards in this Set
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Rome was a record-keeping society setting down on what? |
laws, treaties, and copious oratory correspondence |
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While historiograhpy developed a distinctly Roman form, epic remained self-counciously indebted to what? |
Greek antecedents |
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What were the years of Caesar Augustus's, formerly Octavian, reign? |
27 BCE to 14 BCE
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The restrictions of Augustus's rule seemed to many a small price to pay for what? |
ending hundreds of years of civil strife |
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49 BC saw the end of reforms and grabs for power with the dictatorship of who? |
Julius Caesar |
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Caesar's power was based in his army, reputation, and most notably his subjugation of what place? |
Gaul (present day France) |
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When a group of senators assassinated Caesar in 44 BC, war broke out among his heirs and rivals. Who did his adopted son, Octavian, defeat at the battle Actium in 31 BC? |
Mark Antony and Cleopatra |
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The Roman empire was a complex combination of what two aspects? |
military prowess and political savvy |
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The Roman legions fought with disciplined efficiency however, defeated peoples retained what? |
fair measure of autonamy |
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While roads to allow rapid movement of persons and good between Rome and the provinces, what three aspects were local people allowed to preserve. |
languages, customs, and religions |
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The borders of Rome extended to what? |
Scotland in the British Isles, Rhine and Dubane Rivers in Europe, Mediterranean from Gaul, Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and the Balkins |
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The need for military support would contribute to what? |
the eventual fall of Rome |
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The empire endured by name until what event? |
the fall of Constantinople |
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In what year and from what even did the Romans themselves consider the empire to have ended? |
410 when Alaric led his Goths into Rome |
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Who converted to Christianity and inaugurated the spread of Christianity through western Europe? |
emporer Constantine |
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What is the Vulgate |
enduring Latin translation of the bible |
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By the middle of the ninth century, Rome had how many inhabitants left? |
17,000 |
