Roman Republic/Empire/Early Middle Ages Test Flashcards
Prior to the Founding of the Roman Republic, Rome was Ruled by this.
Etruscan King
This was the main site of fighting during the First Punic War
Sicily
Magistrates elected by the Plebeians.
Tribunes
This began as a council of noble elders advising the Etruscan King.
Senate
This was the underlying principle for Roman law.
Concept of Natural Rights
The opponent of Rome during the Punic Wars.
Carthage
The Carthaginian general who brought the Second Punic War to the gates of Rome.
Hannibal
The men who were Patricians in the early Roman Republic
Wealthy Landowners
The chief Magistrates of the Roman Republic.
Consuls
The Romans used this mans alliance with Carthage as an excuse to launch a war in the east.
Philip of Macedonia
These were huge agricultural estates
Latifundia
This man did not aspire to Roman political domination.
Cicero
Sulla took power by defeating the supporters of this man.
Marius
The First Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey, and this man
Julius Caesar
This was the most important source of information on the life of Jesus.
Four Gospels of the New Testament
Diocletian’s system of divided rule
Tetrarchy
The followers of Jesus before the conversion of Paul of Tarsus
Hellenized Jews
Before Augustus, this was an honorific term for a general who had won a major victory.
Imperator
A period of lawlessness, civil war, and endemic violence followed the death of this man.
Marcus Aurelius
The main theme of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
Greatness of the Republic
They wanted to Expel the Romans from Judea
The Zealots
He wasn’t a Julio-Claudian Emperor
Hadrian
He believed that Christian teachings should be proclaimed to all
Paul of Tarsus
They ruled Rome for fifty years after Augustus’s Death
Julio-Claudians
Galilee, which is where Jesus was raised, was a stronghold for them.
Zealots
Christianity was legalized by this emperor.
Constantine
Augustus made this institution permanent and professional.
The Army
The Legend of Aeneas is about what?
The Founding of Rome
He believed that a well-ordered Christian society depended on the cooperation of secular and religious authorities
Ambrose of Milan
They believed that Christ’s nature was inferior to God’s
Arians
The greatest historian in the Byzantine Empire.
Procopius
The word “Catholic” derives from the meaning of this Greek word.
Universal
The Pope that the Christianization of Europe began under.
Pope Gegory I
Where St. Augustine was born
North Africa
They were manuals that guided the assignment of penance.
Penitentials
Why the book “The Rule of Saint Benedict” was so successful.
The Moderation and Adaptability
The monks that formed Colonies in Egypt in the third century
Hermits
The Romans labeled all people living outside the empire as this.
Barbarians
A Germanic people
Goths
This church usually gets the title “Orthodox Church”.
Eastern Christian Church
