Chapter Seven

Question 1

upon becoming emperor, Diocletian instituted 2 major reforms:

Answer 1

-the dominate
-the division of the empire

Question 2

His reign stabilized the empire and marks the end of the crisis of the third century

Answer 2

Diocletian

Question 3

He eliminated his last rival in 324 to become the sole ruler of a unified empire

Answer 3

Constantine the Great

Question 4

Agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire

Answer 4

Edict of Milan 313

Question 5

First ecumenical Christian conference of 220 bishops

Answer 5

Council of Nicaea

Question 6

A declaration and summary of the Christian faith

Answer 6

The nicene creed

Question 7

Constantine
Establishing his new capital city of Byzantium in 324

Answer 7

Constantinople

Question 8

Builds the _______________ where Constantine believed was the purported site of Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem

Answer 8

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Question 9

In 391he declared Christianity to be the state religion

Answer 9

Theodosius 1

Question 10

A massive tribal confederation who had set in motion the vast movement of numerous Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire contributing to its eventual collapse

Answer 10

the Huns

Question 11

Most feared enemy of the western and eastern Roman Empire

Answer 11

Attila the Hun

Question 12

The city of _____ was founded as a result of these attacks

Answer 12

Venice

Question 13

branches
Played an important role in the fall of the western Roman empire

Answer 13

Visigoths and Ostrogoths

Question 14

In 378, for the first time in 600 years a Roman army was crushed on Roman soil at __________ and killed the emperor Valens

Answer 14

Adrianople

Question 15

Half vandal and Roman rose to the rank of “master of the soldiers” most powerful man in the western Roman Empire

Answer 15

Stilicho

Question 16

410, Alaric and his visigoths burst into the city and ________ not since 390 BC

Answer 16

Sacked Rome

Question 17

The greatest of all Ostrogoth rulers

Answer 17

Theodoric the Great

Question 18

455 the vandals sacked Rome, ruthlessly defaced the glory of Ancient Rome. The term _____ was coined, the term was quickly adopted throughout the Europe

Answer 18

Vandalism

Question 19

The Merovingian’s survived so long because they were better than the other kingdoms, they successfully

Answer 19

Combined their own traditions to Roman social and legal traditions

Question 20

The eastern empire
For 20 years he attempted to reunite the empire

Answer 20

Justinian 1

Question 21

In 542, a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague laid siege to the world,killing tens of millions

Answer 21

It had a disastrous effect on army recruits and tax payers