Vocab List #2 Rome And Byzantium 8/28/13 Flashcards
Government in which the people choose their leaders
Republic
Uncivilized person
Barbarian
A division or separation as in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox dividing over the issue of icon
Schism
The head of the church or bishop of Rome
Pope
Religious leader of Eastern Orthodox Church
Patriarch
Belief in many gods. The Roman practiced a polytheistic religion
Polytheism
Person who acts as a temporary ruler
Regent
To declare that a person no longer belong to a church
Excommunication
Emperor who allowed Christianity to be practiced legally in the empire.
Constantine
Leader of Asian group ,the Huns , that forced Germanic tribes into Roman territory.
Attila the Hun
Emperor who initially divided the empire in two to try to stabilize it
Diocletian
Byzantine emperor that made Christianity the official religion of the empire
Theodosius
Germanic leader who over threw the Roman Empire
Odoacer
Last great Roman conqueror
Trajan
Visigothic leader who sacked Rome in 410AD
Alaric