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Chapter 6
Roman Empire
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who protected the rights of the plebians from unfair acts of patrician officials? | Tribunes |
| Who are common people who made up the majority of the population? | Plebeians |
| Who were natives to northern Italy? | Etruscans |
| Who were the aristocratic landowners who held most of the power? | Patricians |
| Who were farmers who settled on either side of the Tiber River? | Latiums |
| Who elected tribunes and made laws for the common people? | Tribal Assembly |
| What was a group of three rulers? | Triumvirate |
| Who commanded the army and directed the government but had limited power? | Counsul |
| Who established colonies along the southern coast of Italy? | Greeks |
| What is a government in which the power rests with citizens who have the right to vote and to select their leaders? | Republic |
| What is the aristocratic branch of Rome's government that held both legislative and administrative functions and membership for life? | Senate |
| What was made up of citizen soldiers that appointed counsuls and made laws? | Centuriates |
| What was the Jewish court that had control of religious matters and made laws? | Sanhedrin |
| Who was the Roman Emperor that ended the persecution of the Christians? | Constantine |
| What is Roman peace? | Pax Romana |
| Who was the powerful chieftain of the Huns? | Attila |
| Who changed his name to Emperor Augustus? | Octavia |
| Who was a Romanized Jew with loyalty to both Rome and the Jewish people? | King Herod |
| Who were professional fighters who fought to the death in public contests? | Gladiators |
| Who were Mongol nomads that attacked the Roman Empire from the west? | Huns |
| Who believed that Jesus was a threat to Rome and had him arrested and crucified? | Pontius Pilate |
| What was the eastern half of the Roman Empire? | Byzantine |
| Who were Roman army groups of 5000 soldier? | Legions |
| 4 areas of the Latin speaking west part of the Roman Empire? | Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britannia |
| 5 of the 10 reasons for the declining Roman economy? | pirates, gov. raised taxes, inflation, pop. declined, wealthy spent money outside empire |
| 5 reasons fro the appeal of Christianity? | offered godly relationship, promised life after death, embraced all people, gave hope to the powerless, appealed tot those repelled by Rome |
| 2 ways counsuls had limited power? | The counsuls term was 1 year and could not be elected for another 10 years. 1 councul could always overrule others decisions. |
| 4 areas of the Greek speaking east part of the Roman Empire? | Greece, Anatolia, Syria, Eygpt |
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