ss Flashcards
What caused the Jews to rebel against Roman rule?
The roman occupation of judea
What can be defined as the decay of people’s values?
Corruption
List the main three reasons why the Roman Empire fell.
Disease , increase taxes, and corruption
A famous Roman poet mentioned in the chapter.
Ovid
Who worked hard to find the people who killed Julius Caesar?
Octavion
What is the name given to the outlying areas that Rome had control over?
Provinces
This religion began in the first century.
Christianity
How did the Romans keep the Goths from attacking them?
Make payments to them
Define orator.
A person who is a public speaker
Which two Christian holidays are not based on an exact date?
Christmas and Easter
Punishing a group because of its beliefs is this.
Persecution
What invention of the Romans do we still use today; it allowed them to move armies throughout the empire?
Roads
What is civil law?
A legal system based on a written code of laws.
What was the reason for banning certain Jewish rituals?
To give up judaism
“God’s chosen one” in Hebrew.
Messiah
Who helped end the riots in AD 532?
Theodora
People who follow the teachings of another person.
disciples
Some Roman emperors believed that the empire had become too large to defend; what strategy did they use to solve this problem?
They started giving up land
What is a martyr?
A person who dies for their beliefs
Which word would best describe how the Romans looked at science and engineering?
Practical
As the Roman army fought battles and expanded the empire, how were the farmers affected?
There was not enough farmers to grow food
