Chapter 6 Flashcards
The second triumvirate:
Lepidus
Mark Antony
Octavian
Proscription:
Public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state. Eliminates political enemies and replenish the treasury.
Establishes the first ____________ in western civ
Fire department
Augustus’s contribution to Roman life:
-Establishes the first _______ in western civ
-distributed grain
-gladiatorial shows
-Prevent the ciztreny from protesting and rioting
-Fire department
-Bread and Circuses
The goal of the principate was
stability and order not political freedom
Pax Romana
Roman Peace
The julio-claudians
Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Caligua
insane tyrant
One legacy from ___________was the precedent he established by bribing the praetorian guard to back him as the new emperor
Claudius
Nero
Had his mother killed in 59
In 60 Nero_________________________ scandalizing the roman empire
_______preformed as a musician in public __________
__________’s victory showed the elite and the army wished to continue the principate
Vespains
The worship of the emperor as a living god ad making sacrifices for his household welfare
Imperial cult
First emperor to succeed his bio father
Titus
The 5 good emperors, period known as
The golden age
The greatest military expansion in roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent
Trajan
Believed the financial strain to b incurred in keeping on a policy of conquests was something the roman empire could not afford
Hadrian
His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the prinicpate
Antoninus Pius
last of the 5 good emperors, acquired the reputation of a philosopher king within his lifetime
Marcus Aurelius
Princeps of first man, a term from the republic meaning
most distugished senator
Augustus fundamentally transformed Rome’s political system into a
monarchy
Augustus’s true source of power
controlled the states treasury, loyalty of the army
augustus’s military reforms
-professionalized the army
-garunteed soliders pay and retirement benefit
-created the praetorian gaurd
augustus’s contribution to the roman life established the first ________ in western civ
fire department
Messiah
appointed one
the world is ruled by evil powers that would one day be crushed by the messiah, gods chosen agent after which the righteous would be rewarded and the evil punished
Apocalypticism
_______66-70_______________ Christianity began to separate from judaism
The Zealot revolt_______and the destruction of jerusalem and the temple_______
Christians consider the ________________________________________________________
Resurrection of Jesus
Reasons for the Roman persecution:
-Christians denial of the gods would invoke their wrath on the empire
-christians were cannibals and sexually promiscuous
The biggest argument of the early church was the issue of the _________
Trinity
Doctrine states that the apostles had appointed the first bishops as their successor, giving these officers the authority that’s had originally given to the apostles
Apostolic succession
Sacraments of the church
-Baptism
-Reconciliation
-holy eucharist
-marriage
-anointing of the sick
