Rome Flashcards
The region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Latium
A commoner in ancient Rome.
Plebeian
An aristocrat or nobleman.
Patrician
An official in ancient Rome was chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests.
Tribunes
One of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic.
Consuls
The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
Christianity
A set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BCE. They were the beginning of a new approach to laws which were now passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.
Twelve Tablets
This monotheistic religion developed from Judaism and believes Jesus
died for our sins, was buried, was resurrected, and thereby offers
salvation to all who will receive Him in faith.
Messiah
Roman Emperor who when faced with military problems decided in 286 to divide the Roman Empire between himself in the east and Maximian in the west.
Diocletian
great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, now a residential suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia. Built on a promontory on the Tunisian coast, it was placed to influence and control ships passing between Sicily and the North African coast as they traversed the Mediterranean Sea.
Carthage
An empire, centered at Constantinople, that began as the eastern portion of the Roman Empire.
Byzantine Empire
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
Architecture
Judea
The term “Pax Romana,” which literally means “Roman peace,” refers to the time period from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. in the Roman Empire.
Pax Romana
A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators.
Gladiators
