Chapter 5 Study Guide

Question 1

the poet of the “Augustan Age”

Answer 1

Horace

Question 2

author of Metamorphoses which was banned by Augustus

Answer 2

Ovid

Question 3

a historian who favored the old republic over life under self-centered emperors; wrote ___ and ___

Answer 3

Juvenal

Annals & Germania

Question 4

emperor who was a devoted stoic and wrote a book called Meditations

Answer 4

Marcus Aurelius

Question 5

Ovid wrote ___ which was banned by ___.

Answer 5

Metamorphoses

Augustus

Question 6

What book did the emperor Marcus Aurelius write?

Answer 6

Meditations

Question 7

Jesus was born in the Roman province of ___ during the reign of ___.

Answer 7

Judea

Caesar Augustus

Question 8

___ was the location of the battle where the Visigoths defeated the Roman citizens.

Answer 8

Adrianople

Question 9

Who initiated the most widespread persecution of Christianity?

Answer 9

Diocletian

Question 10

Who initiated the first attack on Christians?

Answer 10

Nero

Question 11

What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?

Answer 11

Constantinople

Question 12

Why did persecution of Christians start?

Answer 12

because Christians refused to worship emperors

Question 13

Who defeated the Roman citizens at Adrianople?

Answer 13

Visigoths

Question 14

___ destroyed Jerusalem.

Answer 14

Titus

Question 15

Explain some reasons for the decline and fall of Rome.

Answer 15

political disorder
economic troubles
moral decline