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Roman peace

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Pax Romana

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First citizen

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Princeps

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Roman peace and prosperity was under his rule

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Octavian

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Became known a Caesar Augustus-1st Roman ruler to be called emperor-wanted to restore the republic and shared power with the senate

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Octavian

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Agriculture- trade and material wealth peaked- currency was made

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Economic prosperity

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Supplied water to Roman cities

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Aqueducts

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True happiness- free mind of fear and free body of pain

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Epicurean

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Highest good comes from the pursuit of virtues

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Stoicism

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Focused on beauty, art, and philosophy

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Greeks

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Focused on usefulness, law, and politics

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Romans

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Romans learned much from them- modeled literature after their examples

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Greeks

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Great orator and political figure of the republic in Rome

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Cicero

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Homer of Rome- greatest Roman poet- wrote Aeneid

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Virgil

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Poet of the Augustan age

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Horace

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Metamorphoses- 200 myths of the ancient world

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Ovid

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Wrote ancient history of Rome

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Livys

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Wrote bitter satires on Rome’s social problems

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Juvenal

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Historian who longed for republic- annals of germania

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Tacitus

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Dominant language of Rome

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Latin

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Most famous Greek writer in the Roman Empire

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Plutarch

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Medical writer

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Galen

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Astronomer and mathematician- geocentric theory

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Ptolemy

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Earth centered universe

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Geocentric theory

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Chariot races

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Crocus Maximus

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Most famous example of Rome’s architectural achievement

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Colosseum

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Epicureanism- on the nature of things

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Lucretius

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Philosopher- tutor of Nero

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Seneca

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Meditations

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Marcus Aurelius

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Worship centers for exhaled Jews

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Synagogues

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Old Testament translation from Hebrew to Greek

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Septuagint

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Anointed one

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Jesus the Christ

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Roman governor

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Pontus Pilate

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Roman emperor

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Tiberius

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The spread of the gospel was aided by these two things

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Jewish persecution and Apostle Paul

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First Christian martyr

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Stephen

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First missionary to the gentiles

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Paul

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Romans deemed Christians as

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Social misfits to haters of humanity

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Led first official Christian persecution

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Nero

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Led largest and most widespread Christian persecution

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Diocletian

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Made Christianity legal

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Edict of Milan

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Legalized Christianity

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Constantine

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Made Christianity Rome’s official religion

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Theodosius I

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Affirmed the deity of the Trinity

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Council of Nicaea

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Withdraw to monasteries and denied physical comforts

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Monasticism

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Reasons for decline of Rome

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Political disorder, economic troubles, and moral decay

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Germanic tribes who didn’t share Greek or Roman culture

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Barbarians

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Fierce eastern tribe

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Huns

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Hun tribe who settled in east Rome

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Visigoths

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Romans were defeated and the empower was killed

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Battle of Adrianople

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Plundered Rome with the Visgoths in 410

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Alaric

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Hun leader who invaded Rome

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Attila

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Raided and pillaged Rome- term still used today

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Vandals

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Date of the fall of the Roman Empire- when a non Roman was placed on the throne

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476 AD

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Chose co empower for west while ruling in the east

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Diocletian

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