Chapter 5 Flashcards
What was Augustus greatest failure in his attempts to restore order and stability in Rome ?
Reform morals
The Septuagint translated the Old Testament into what language
Greek
What city was destroyed yet preserved by s volcanic eruption
Pompeii
Jesus was born in which Roman province
Judea
Which meeting affirmed Christies deity and the doctrine of the trinity
Council of necaea
Which two emperors introduced reforms which delayed the fall of Rome for two centuries
Diocletian and Constantinople
What was the capital of eastern Roman Empire
Constantininople
What Roman engineering accomplishment supplied water to the cities
Aqueducts
What’s the practice of withdrawing from all worldly cares and possessions and practicing strict discipline and religious exercise
Monasticism
Who was the leader of Visigoths
Alaric
Who was the emperor and stoic philospher who wrote meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Why did persecution of the Christians begin
Christians refused to worship the emperor
Which ancient eastern city became the capital of the eastern romanempire
Byzantium
What emperor divided the Roman Empire for the final time
Diocletian and theodosius I
List two reasons for the decline of Rome
- Political disorder 2. Economic problems and moral decay
Rome problem
Economics
Roman decay
Government and superstition increased
Rome justice
Protected, and equal rights regardless of wealth
Medical writer
Galen
Poet of the agustan age
Horace
Jewish historian
Josephus
Wrote bigger satires on the loose morals and social problems of the empire
Juvenal
Historian who lived durning the Augustan age
Livy
Epicurean philospher and poet
Lucretius
Wrote metamorphoses, a collection of myths, and had his works banned by Augustus
Ovid
Astronomer and ,athematicians
Ptolemy
Stoic philospher and tutor of Nero
Seneca
Homer of Romero wrote the Aeneid
Virgil
Emperor who legalized Christianity
Constantine
Conducted the most severe persecution of Christianity
Diocletian
First persuctor of Christianity
Nero
Divided the romanempire for the last time
Theodosius
Emperor under whom Christ was crucified
Tiberius
Destroyed Jerusalem
Titus
Law legalized Christianity
Edict of Milan
Roman period of peace
Pax Romana
A Roman term for all those. Outside the empire who did it share in the Greek or Roman cultures
Barbarians
Structures built to supple water to the cities
Aqueducts
Death on the cross
Crucifixion
The assistant of N Augustus
Caesar
Warriors who fought in the roman colosseum
Gladiators
The team. That Jesus died in the place of sinful humans so that hey might be forgive of their sins and be able to claim asf heir own righteousness
Gospel
Structure with levels of authority
Hierarchical
Theory that the earth is the center of the universe
Geocentric theory
Nomadic tribe sled by Attila, whose advance west forced germanic tribes to seek refuge in Roman territory
Huns
A Germanic tribe that established a kingdom in northafrics
Vandals
Philsophy that taught the highest good is the pursuit of courage, dignity, duty, simplicity
Stoctism
Centers of worship for the scattered Jews
Suhagogues
A Germanic tribe that settled in the eastern Roman Empire
Visigoth
Bishop of one of the five important cities of the empirejerusalme
Patriarchs
Greatest pontiff, title of the Roman Empire
Pontity
The lifestyle of withdrawing from all worlds cares and possessions an practicing strict
Monoisizm
Philsophy that teaches that true happiness comes only as man frees his mind from fear and his body from the pain.
Eupereaism
Leader of the Visigoths in 410
Alaric
Church council in 325 that affirm ended the doctrines of Christs deity and the trinity
Council of nicAea
Co emperor of half the Roman Empire underdiolcetians plan
Augustus
Heretic who disrupted the unity of the church by challenging the deity of christ
Aricy
Roman author who was also an outstanding scholar
Curo
Historian who wrote annals, and Germania
Tatuis
Roman governor that Jesus was brought before
Pontiuspilate
Greek who wrote biographies of Greek and Roman men
Patriarchs
Apostles originally named Saul
Paul
First Christian martyr
Stephen
Burial grounds
Catacombs