The World Of Jesus Flashcards
What’s a legionary?
The best Roman soldiers and the best paid
What’s an auxiliary?
A soldier who was not a Roman citizen he was paid a third as much as a legionary
What’s an artillery soldier?
Soldiers fired giant catapults, machines that fired rocks or balls of burning tar.
What is crucifixion?
A way of putting someone to death by nailing or tying a person to a wooden cross by their hands and feet
What is flogging?
A criminal is beaten or flogged with 39 strokes.
What is stoning
This punishment was usually reserved for women often for committing adultery
What is strangling?
Children were expected to obey their parents a son who attacked his father was strangled
Education for boys
At home they were taught by parents and at the age o six or seven a Jewish boy was sent to a synagogue
Education for girls
Girls were educated at home until they got married
