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