Words and Terms

Question 1

Antikythera Mechanism

Answer 1

• desiged to predict astriological positions
• first analog computers
• to predict eclipses, starts, planet movements, moons
• only 6 ever made

Question 2

Augusti and the Caesars

Answer 2

the portrait of the four tetrachs

depicts two Augusti- senior emperors and two Caesars- younger emporers

symbolized the concept of a tetriarchy

Question 3

Barbegal Water Mill

Answer 3

on natural hillsides that have rivers, they would be put in sequence and double to mill grain

Question 4

Gladiators

Answer 4

• professional athletes
• training took a lot of time and money so didnt want to kill them off
• the only matches to the death were condemned prisoners
• goal was to give a good show

Question 5

Goths

Answer 5

the huns were comming into their territory

they ran away and wanted to join the romans

the romans put them in refugee camps and made them pay too much for food

they rebelled and fought against the romans in their own territory

battle of Adrianopoli

Question 6

Honestiores & Humiliores

Answer 6

honestiores are the upper class

humiliores are the lower classes and the prosititues

Question 7

Just war

Answer 7

was a theory of the romans that violent conflict should have some philosophical, religious or political criteria

Question 8

Liturgies

Answer 8

costomary public worship such as mass

Question 9

Circus Maximus

Answer 9

• In rome, was the chariot racing
• could hold up to 150,000 spectators
• was like professional car racing

Question 10

Coloni

Answer 10

evolved from slavery, was inbetween a free man and a slave

was a percurser to surfdom

the person is not called a slave but he cannot go anywhere

Question 11

Consuls

Answer 11

were the governors and leaders of the provinces, were not elected anymore but chosen by the emporer

Question 12

Emporer Cult

Answer 12

was the religion that ex slaves that could not run for office had to pray for the genie of the emporer, augustales

seperate but equal

Question 13

Lugdunum Tablet

Answer 13

was a transcript of a speech Claudius gave and it was in Lyon france (which once was called Lugdunum)

Question 14

Manumission

Answer 14

was when a slave owner let go of his slave, and he became a citizen

he would take the cognomen of the family

could get money from the slave owner and would in return give them a piece of the profit they made on the business

Question 15

Military Diplomas

Answer 15

was a tablet that said that the man was honnorably discharged and was now a roman citizen

Question 16

Pozzolana Concrete

Answer 16

wet concrete, can set under water, it was used for aqueducts in the roman empire

Question 17

Praetorian Guard

Answer 17

were the body guards of the emporers, also for military commanders

the guard was dissolved with emporer constantine

Question 18

Roman Forum

Answer 18

was in the heart of rome, was where trials were held, speeches, statues for the great men

Question 19

Equestrians

Answer 19

this was the horse force of the military, and were only pulled from patricians

by the times of the punic wars all first class needed to serve as cavalrymen

Question 20

Etruscans

Answer 20

were the ancient civilizations that inhabited near tuscany

Question 21

Freedmen/ Women

Answer 21

freedmen could become citizens and vote, even though they would never get to upper classes

women, there was the new guidelines as to what a good wife and woman was

women had control over their own money, there were women writers, nurses, doctors, celebrated athletes, gladiators

Question 22

Tribune of the Plebs

Answer 22

they were always used by the emporer for his personal gains

Question 23

Tiumph

Answer 23

the parades for the emporer or the military commander after a battle, very elaborate

Question 24

Triumvirate

Answer 24

was when ther was three leaders

the first was caeasar, pompey and crassus

the second was Octavian (augustus), Mark antony, and Marcus Aemilius

Question 25

Vandals

Answer 25

eastern germanic tribes that were pushed into the roman empire

they were pushed by the huns

by the time they passed the border there was no more military to they took over gual, all of spain and north africa

Question 26

Huns

Answer 26

came from mongolia and pushed the germanic tribes into the roman empire and caused the fall of the empire