BMMS Ch. 13 Rome Nat Geo
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| mercenary | a soldier who is hired to fight for an army
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| Diocletian | Roman emperor in A.D. 284 He permanently placed troops at the borders, He kept prices low on bread to feed the poor.
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| absolute ruler | one who has total power
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| barbarian | someone considered to be uncivilized and primitive
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| nomad | a member of a group that moves from place to place
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| plunder | to take possessions by force
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| Byzantine Empire | the Eastern Roman Empire, which lasted 1000 years after the collapse of the west
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| Justinian | a Byzantine emperor who recovered lost territories
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| Justinian Code | a legal code based on older Roman laws created at the order of Justinian
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| Roman Catholic Church | the Christian church based in Rome and led by the pope
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| Eastern Orthodox Church | the Christian church that developed in the Byzantine Empire
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| orthodox | holding established beliefs
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| mosaic | a picture made from tiny pieces of colored stone or other materials
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| bas-relief | a type of sculpture in which slightly raised figures stand out against a flat background
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| epic | a long poem about a hero
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| oratory | the art of public speaking
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| vault | an arch that forms a ceiling of a roof
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| Atilla the Hun | the general that united the Huns and destroyed much of Rome
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| Huns | a nomadic tribe from central Asia, who drove Germanic tribes into Rome
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| Britannia | the Roman province of Britain, today's England; first conquered by the emperor Claudius in 43 A.D.
and abandoned in 410 A.D.
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| civilized | polite and well-mannered, taken from the Roman word "civitas" meaning the citizens of Rome.
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