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Ch six
Question | Answer |
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Etruscans | Early people swho ruled northern italy, gained control of Rome in six20 b.c. |
First punic war | Battle between the roman and carthaginains overseas. carthaginians lost conrtol and had to pay indemnities. |
constanine | emperors who protected christianity, he ordered churches to be built in rome. |
augustine | scholar who influenced christianity |
messiah | deliverer chosen by God |
paul | convert who help spread christianity |
alaric | visigoths, led his ppl into rome and caputered rome |
legionaries | roman soldiers |
patrician | latin nobles, lower class |
plebeains | wealthy nonaristrocratic ppl |
julio cluadians | tiberius, caligula, claudius, nero. |
good emperors | trajan, hadrain, antoninus, marcus. |
odoacer | german soldier, seized rome and became king |
sicily | rome,end of the toe of the boot |
scipio | general, second punic war, attacked carthage and defeated hannibal |
factors of the fall of the Roman Empire | invadsion on the germanic tribes, complex interaction of events between ad 200 to ad five00 |
consuls | officals |
dictator | a leader whose word was law |
tribunes | chosen representatives |
republic | community in which the ppl elect their leaders |
indemnity | payments |
triumvirate | group of 3 ppl |
aqueducts | artifical channels for carrying water |
martyrs | someone who dies for their beliefs |
disciples | followers |
inflation | a rise in prices. |