Words and Terms Flashcards
Antikythera Mechanism
- desiged to predict astriological positions
- first analog computers
- to predict eclipses, starts, planet movements, moons
- only 6 ever made
Augusti and the Caesars
the portrait of the four tetrachs
depicts two Augusti- senior emperors and two Caesars- younger emporers
symbolized the concept of a tetriarchy
Barbegal Water Mill
on natural hillsides that have rivers, they would be put in sequence and double to mill grain
Gladiators
- 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
Goths
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
Honestiores & Humiliores
honestiores are the upper class
humiliores are the lower classes and the prosititues
Just war
was a theory of the romans that violent conflict should have some philosophical, religious or political criteria
Liturgies
costomary public worship such as mass
Circus Maximus
- In rome, was the chariot racing
- could hold up to 150,000 spectators
- was like professional car racing
Coloni
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
Consuls
were the governors and leaders of the provinces, were not elected anymore but chosen by the emporer
Emporer Cult
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
Lugdunum Tablet
was a transcript of a speech Claudius gave and it was in Lyon france (which once was called Lugdunum)
Manumission
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
Military Diplomas
was a tablet that said that the man was honnorably discharged and was now a roman citizen
Pozzolana Concrete
wet concrete, can set under water, it was used for aqueducts in the roman empire
Praetorian Guard
were the body guards of the emporers, also for military commanders
the guard was dissolved with emporer constantine
Roman Forum
was in the heart of rome, was where trials were held, speeches, statues for the great men
Equestrians
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
Etruscans
were the ancient civilizations that inhabited near tuscany
Freedmen/ Women
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
Tribune of the Plebs
they were always used by the emporer for his personal gains
Tiumph
the parades for the emporer or the military commander after a battle, very elaborate
Triumvirate
was when ther was three leaders
the first was caeasar, pompey and crassus
the second was Octavian (augustus), Mark antony, and Marcus Aemilius
Vandals
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
Huns
came from mongolia and pushed the germanic tribes into the roman empire and caused the fall of the empire
