Unit 8 Study Guide

Question 1

Dictator

Answer 1

Someone who has all the power

Question 2

constitution

Answer 2

Written set of laws

Question 3

republic

Answer 3

gov. that uses representatives to make laws and decisions, has a constitution to protect the people

Question 4

patrician

Answer 4

Upper-Class, wealthy citizens

Question 5

plebeian

Answer 5

Everyone else that was free

Question 6

The Twelve Tables

Answer 6

First roman laws put into writing

Question 7

The Senate

Answer 7

lawmaking body made up of 300 patricians with a life term(controlled money and taxes)

Question 8

The Tribune of the Plebs

Answer 8

Lawmaking body of ten plebian members with a life term

Question 9

Julius Caesar

Answer 9

The first dictator of Rome and brilliant military general

Question 10

First Triumvirate

Answer 10

the voting pact between 2 consuls (Pompey and Crassus) and Julius Caesar

Question 11

Caesar Augustus

Answer 11

Also known as Octavian, Julius’ grandnephew, Brilliant military general

Question 12

Second Triumvirate

Answer 12

Military dictatorship b/w himself, Mark Antony, and Lepidus

Question 13

Pax Romana

Answer 13

A game like Diplopy- set in Rome- generals against generals

Question 14

Praetorian Guard

Answer 14

an elite unit of bodyguards for the emperor

Question 15

Bread and Circuses

Answer 15

Free entertainment and food to keep the public from revolting

Question 16

Byzantine Empire

Answer 16

Eastern empire, fall in 1453 CE

Question 17

Constantinople

Answer 17

An eastern capital called Constantine later renamed Istanbul

Question 18

Edict of Milan

Answer 18

“Decriminalized” Christianity in 313CE

Question 19

Christianity

Answer 19

A monotheistic religion that believes that Jesus was a savior sent by God

Question 20

The Bible

Answer 20

the holy book of Christianity

Question 21

Constantine

Answer 21

Divided empire into West and East

Question 22

Describe how the U.S. is democratic and a republic

Answer 22

U.S:
Direct dimeracy
Citizens went and put vote themselves

Rome:
Representative
Written Constitution

Question 23

Describe the three reasons that the Roman Republic collapsed

Question 24

Describe how the game Pax Romana represents the downfall of the republic

Answer 24

The game Pax Romana represents the downfall of the republic because we are making and breaking alliances and we are expanding

Question 25

Describe what it was like to be a gladiator

Answer 25

Gladiator life was rough, and they were treated like slaves, but they had vary good food and healthcare

Question 26

Explain how wealth and/or social status affected people in the following way: Government

Question 27

Explain how wealth and/or social status affected people in the following way: Food and drink

Question 28

Explain how wealth and/or social status affected people in the following way: Women

Question 29

Explain how wealth and/or social status affected people in the following way: Recreation

Question 30

Timeline

Answer 30

Roman Republic is established
Twelve Tables makes laws visible
Overexpansion couses shifting alliances + Civil War
Julius Ceaser is stabbed in the back
Octavian(aka augustus) becomes first emperor
The practorian Guard is created
Vespasian builds the Colosseum
Constantine decriminalization Christianity
Rome falls+Constantinaple lives on as seated of Byzantine empire