Rome

Question 1

Republic

Answer 1

Form of government I which people choose officials

Question 2

Patricians

Answer 2

Members of landholding upper class men

Question 3

Consuls

Answer 3

Nominated people who supervised gov. and command the armies

Question 4

Dictator

Answer 4

Ruler that has complete control over gov.

Question 5

Plebeians

Answer 5

People who made up most of pop, farmers, merchants, etc

Question 6

Tribunes

Answer 6

People who could help block veto for plebeians

Question 7

Veto

Answer 7

Laws harmful to plebeians

Question 8

Imperialism

Answer 8

Establishing control over foreign lands and people t

Question 9

Legion

Answer 9

Military unit that had about 5,000 men

Question 10

Latifundia

Answer 10

Huge wealthy estates

Question 11

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

Answer 11

Brothers who tried to help poor farmers around 133 BC

Question 12

Julius caesar

Answer 12

58 BC did 9 years of fighting and concord Gaul, started a civil war and became king

Question 13

Augustus (exalted one)

Answer 13

(Much like a king) Ordered Census, and made a gov. That functioned for 200 years

Question 14

96 ad to 180 ad, empire benighted from many good rulers. Who was one, and what did he do???

Answer 14

Hadrian, and he coded roman law and had his men build a wall against britain

Question 15

Virgil

Answer 15

Perot who wrote Aeneid, trying to show how Rome’s past was as great as Greece’s

Question 16

Satirize

Answer 16

The word for how poets would make fun of Rome

Question 17

A picture made of little chips of colored stone or glass

Answer 17

Mosaic

Question 18

Engineering

Answer 18

Application of science and mathematics to build useful structures

Question 19

Bridges that carried water to city’s

Answer 19

Aqueducts

Question 20

Who thought the earth was the center of the universe

Answer 20

Ptolemy

Question 21

Apostles

Answer 21

Person sent forth

Question 22

Paul

Answer 22

Man who had vision of Christ and started christianity as its own religion

Question 23

Constantine

Answer 23

King who allowed everyone to worshiped whoever they wished

Question 24

Clergy

Answer 24

Group of people who conducted Christian services

Question 25

What order do these go in? Patriarch, bishop, pope

Answer 25

Bishop, patriarch, pope

Question 26

Heresies

Answer 26

People who believe half of religion

Question 27

Greatest early church scholar

Answer 27

Augustine

Question 28

Diocletian

Answer 28

Empower who sought to restore order in 248. Divided land in 2, ruled better half while someone ruled other half.

Question 29

Inflation

Answer 29

(Diocletian used it) fixed prices

Question 30

Constantinople

Answer 30

Name of city after it was renamed by Constantine

Question 31

Huns

Answer 31

Warriors from Asia

Question 32

Etruscans

Answer 32

Some of the first settlers

Question 33

The Punic wars

Answer 33

The three wars against Carthage

Question 34

Adeile

Answer 34

Oversaw care of city, distribution of grain, public games

Question 35

Cato

Answer 35

A senator, who ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed"

Question 36

Pax Romana

Answer 36

Roman peace, lasted 200 years

Question 37

Judas

Answer 37

Apostle who betrayed christ

Question 38

Equestrian

Answer 38

Ranking right below senators, they're the calvary

Question 39

Centurion

Answer 39

Professional officers who commanded part of the army, up to 80 men

Question 40

Senator

Answer 40

Someone who was part of the senate

Question 41

Imperator

Answer 41

Means emperor

Question 42

Cicero

Answer 42

Philosopher, who encouraged Latin

Question 43

The Aeneid

Answer 43

Written by Virgil, is the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy and became the ancestor of all Romans