Vocab for Chapter 7
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| Civis Romanus Sum | I am a Roman citizen | ||||
| The period of peace and prosperity | The Pax Romana | ||||
| A sports arena that opened in A.D. 80 | The Coliseum | ||||
| A silver coin circulated through the empire to make trade easier | Denarius | ||||
| A long bridege like structure that carried water | Aqueduct | ||||
| What made roads, buildings and bridges possible | Concrete | ||||
| The salaried workers that were in charge of the grain supply, road repair and the postal system | Civil Servants or Civil Service | ||||
| The army of 9,000 stationed in Rome that proteted the emperor | The praetorian guard | ||||
| A blending of two cultures | Greco-Roman | ||||
| The exciting sport held at the Circus Maximus | Chariot Racing | ||||
| Worshiped many gods | Polytheists | ||||
| Worshiped one god | Monotheists | ||||
| Saul the Jew became | Paul the Christian | ||||
| A Jewish revolutionary | Zeolot | ||||
| People who died for their religion | Martyrs | ||||
| Head of the Huns | Attila | ||||
| A philosophy to gain happiness, free the body from painn and free the mind from fear is called | Epicureanism | ||||
| A philosophy of avoiding excesses and accepting death and living a serious sober life is known as | Stoicism | ||||
| The word Stoi means | Porch | ||||
| The most famous Stoic was | Marcus Aurelius | ||||
| A country house | Villa | ||||
| Constantine wisely moved the capital of the empire to | Byzantium | ||||
| The first emperor to persecute Christians | Nero | ||||
| When the Christians wer tortured and killed for entertainment, it was usually done at the | Circus Maximus | ||||
| Minting coins with less silver was a big mistake and caused massive | Inflation | ||||
| This emperor tried reform, but it was too little to late | Diocleatian | ||||
| The emperor who was a pyromaniac | Nero | ||||
| This Wacko emperor appointed his horse consul | Caligula | ||||
| When an emperor died, there was a lot of fighting over who should be the next emperor. This was part of | The problem of succession. | ||||
| The poor lived in seven story buildings build by the government called | Tenements | ||||
| The biggest problem with mercenaries was | No loyalties | ||||
| This emperor believed that a sign from God helped him win a battle so he converted | Constantine | ||||
| This emperor made Christianity the official religion of the empire | Constantine | ||||
| Rome had about this many holidays | 150 | ||||
| Fought for other entertainment | Gladiators |
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franbutler
on 2009-11-16