WH 8.3

Question 1

the new testament called octavian what

Answer 1

Caesar Augustus

Question 2

what year was jesus born

Answer 2

4 B.C.

Question 3

who was emperor during jesus’s birth

Answer 3

Octavian

Question 4

the 200 years of roman peace

Answer 4

pax romana

Question 5

ruled the empire during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and at the time of the Savior’s death, resurrection, and ascension around A.D. 30

Answer 5

Tiberius

Question 6

was insane. He is remembered for appointing his favorite horse to the Senate.

Answer 6

caligula

Question 7

During his reign, the Roman legions finally subdued the Britons and made Britain into a Roman province

Answer 7

claudius

Question 8

who was the emperor of rome after claudius was poisined by his 4th wife

Answer 8

Nero

Question 9

who burned rome then blamed the christians

Answer 9

Nero

Question 10

Nero made what

Answer 10

first great outbreak of persecution against the New Testament church

Question 11

emerged victorious and helped restore political and economic stability to the empire after the claudian emporers

Answer 11

Vespasian

Question 12

captured Jerusalem, as prophesied by Christ some 40 years earlier (Luke 19:41–45), and devastated the city, destroying the Temple.

Answer 12

titus

Question 13

what year did titus devistate jerusalem

Answer 13

A.D. 70

Question 14

in southern Italy suddenly erupted and spewed out red-hot lava and volcanic ash, completely burying the Roman cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae.

Answer 14

Mt. Vesuvius

Question 15

The empire attained its highest prosperity and power under the so-called five good emperors. Who were they?

Answer 15

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius , and Marcus Aurelius

Question 16

, a stone wall in northern Britain built to protect the empire’s frontier against raids by the fierce Picts and Scots

Answer 16

hadrians wall

Question 17

Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic philosopher, was renowned for his book. what was it called

Answer 17

Meditations

Question 18

rival generals placed upon the throne for a time by warring armies

Answer 18

barracks emperors

Question 19

who came to power in A.D. 284 when the period of anarchy had reached its climax, instituted various reforms that held the tottering empire together for another 200 years

Answer 19

Diocletian

Question 20

became the Augustus of the West, with his capital at Milan in northern Italy

Answer 20

maximian

Question 21

divided the roman empire into east and west

Answer 21

diocletian

Question 22

who ruled the west portion of rome

Answer 22

maximian

Question 23

who ruled in the eastern portion of rome

Answer 23

diocletian

Question 24

who won the civil war after diocletian died

Answer 24

Constantine

Question 25

in what year did constantine see a vision of the cross in the sky

Answer 25

312

Question 26

what document legalized christianity in rome

Answer 26

edict of milan

Question 27

what year did christianity become legal in rome

Answer 27

313

Question 28

what was the new capital of rome during constintaines rule

Answer 28

Constantinople

Question 29

the empire was permanently divided into East and West by Emperor Theodosius I in what year

Answer 29

A.D. 395

Question 30

who permanatley seperated rome

Answer 30

Theodosius I

Question 31

who lead the visigoths

Answer 31

Alaric

Question 32

who were the visigoths

Answer 32

group of people that first invaded rome during the fall

Question 33

Ear-lier, in 378, the Visigoths had administered one of the worst defeats a Roman army had ever suffered, killing the emperor Valens and cutting his army to pieces where

Answer 33

Adrianople

Question 34

ravaged North Africa

Answer 34

vandals

Question 35

who began their invasion of Britain during the fall of rome

Answer 35

Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

Question 36

known as the “scourge of God”

Answer 36

attila

Question 37

what year did Odoacer remove the last Roman emperor

Answer 37

A.D. 476

Question 38

who removed the last roman emporer

Answer 38

Odoacer

Question 39

who was the last roman emperor

Answer 39

Romulus Augustulus

Question 40

Rome’s greatest contributions to civilization

Answer 40

Latin language, Roman law, and republican government

Question 41

gave rise during the Middle Ages to the Romance languages

Answer 41

vernacular, or vulgar, Latin

Question 42

what were the romance langs?

Answer 42

modern French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish

Question 43

spoken and understood by churchmen and scholars all over western Europe

Answer 43

medieval Latin

Question 44

from the birth of Cicero to the death of Augustus, Roman writers produced their greatest work

Answer 44

Golden Age of Latin Literature

Question 45

was a master of Latin prose and wrote numerous letters, rhetorical treatises, philosophical works, and orations

Answer 45

cicero

Question 46

an eloquent statement of the political theory underlying the Roman republic

Answer 46

on the common wealth

Question 47

The greatest poet of the Golden Age

Answer 47

virgil

Question 48

describes the legendary events that led to the founding of Rome,ranks as one of the greatest masterpieces of Latin literature

Answer 48

Aeneid

Question 49

After Virgil’s death, became Rome’s leading poet; he is known especially for his beautiful lyric Odes

Answer 49

horace

Question 50

portrayed the lives of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian; he also mentions Jesus Christ in his writings

Answer 50

Suetonius

Question 51

is best known for his masterpiece Parallel Lives

Answer 51

Plutarch

Question 52

a collection of 16 biographies arranged in groups of two in which a Greek orator, statesman, or warrior is paired with a Roman of similar occupation

Answer 52

Parallel Lives

Question 53

the notion that all law derives from a single central source.

Answer 53

single sovereignty

Question 54

developed from the belief that all men share a common human nature

Answer 54

universality

Question 55

the principle that laws should be sufficiently flexible to fit a large number of particular cases

Answer 55

equity

Question 56

clarified a millennium of Roman legal developments

Answer 56

Justinian Code