final Flashcards
How does Christianity change from being a small persecuted religion to a
global force?
-Constantine fights in Mailvan bridge under Christian faith and wins
-Constantine created Edict of Milan which legalized being Christian
-After 10 years Christianity Is made the official religion of the Roman Empire
How does the linkage between Christianity and the Roman empire change the
religion?
Christianity grew from Jewish traditions and was shaped by roman culture and political structures.
Ex: Pope gets his title from the Roman office of pontifex maximus aka the highest priest.
What is the crisis of the third century for the Roman empire?
AKA Military Anarchy was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression.
What natural boundaries constitute the borders of Rome?
-Rhine River
-Carpathian Mountains
-The Sahara Desert.
What were the primary causes of the fall of the Latin Roman empire?
-Corruption within the empire
-Overexpansion of empire, which led to its administrative division
-Invasion by Germanic tribes from Northern and Central Europe
How does Diocletian save the empire? What are his key reforms (there are a
few)?
-Separated and enlarged the empire’s civil and military services
-reorganized the empire’s provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the empire.
-He split the roman empire between the east and the west
Why is Charlemagne the “Father of Europe”?
-He was the founder of the Carolingian Empire, and was best known for uniting Western Europe for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire
How does Agrippa help Augustus?
Agrippa assisted Augustus in making Rome “a city of marble”. The perfect city.
What was the conflict between the optimates and the populares?
Optimates valued the power of the senate, while Populares believed the senate needed to reform and wanted more emphasis on elected assemblies and popular sovereignty.
What changes does Augustus make to the Roman system?
-Passed laws to encourage marital stability and renew religious practices
-He instituted a system of taxation and a census
-Expanded the network of Roman roads.
What is feudalism?
-A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank and worked and fought for them in return.
What were the achievements of Justinian?
-reclaimed most of the territory of the Roman empire.
-codified the old Roman law
-Built Hagia Sophia and other important churches and monuments in Constantinople.
What were the results of the fourth crusade?
Followed by the fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire into three states centered in Nicaea, Trebizond and Epirus
Why were the Arab invasions of Byzantium and Persia so successful and so
rapid?
Many Arab clans fought as mercenaries for both sides in the conflict and the Byzantines were militarily and economically exhausted from decades of war against Persia.
Why is Alfred the Great so important in English history?
It is for his valiant defense of his kingdom against a stronger enemy, for securing peace with the Vikings and for his farsighted reforms in the reconstruction of Wessex and beyond.
