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roman cultural sfs
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Commodus | after the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180, his son, ---- became emperor |
| cruel | Commodus was ---- and wasted money |
| bodyguard | in A.D. 192, Commodus ---- killed him |
| confusion | nearly a century of fighting and ---- followed the death of Commodus |
| Severans | after Commodus, emperors called the ---- ruled Rome |
| poverty | the Serverans stayed in power by paying the army well, but they ignored the growing problems of crime and ---- |
| borders | they spent most of their time putting down revolts and protecting Rome's ---- |
| weak | when the last Severan ruler died in AD 235, Rome's leadership grew ---- and the government grew corrupt |
| duty | fewer Romans honored the old ideals of ---- courage and honesty |
| worsened | with a weak government , the economy worsened |
| goods | people bought fewer ---- |
| shopkeepers | Artisans produced less, and ---- lost money |
| workers | many businesses closed and the number of ---- dropped sharply |
| plague | a ---- or disease that spreads widely, broke out and killed many people |
| ten | the plague killed one out of every ---- people in the empire |
| inflation | Rome also began to suffer from ---- or rapidly increasing prices |
| value | inflation occurs when money loses its ---- |
| taxes | the weak economy meant fewer ---- were paid and the Roman government could not afford to pay soldiers to defend its territories |
| gold | one way for the government to get money was to put less ---- in its coins |
| losing | people soon learned that the coins did not have much gold in them and the cons began ---- value |
| bartering | many people stopped using money altogether and began ---- or exchanging goods without using money |
| invaders | because the Roman government could not afford to pay soldiers to protect its borders, ---- began pushing into the empire's territory |
| Germanic | the Romans began using ---- warriors in their army |
| loyal | these Germianic soldiers however were not --- to Rome |
| Diocletian | in A.D. 284 a general named ---- became emperor |
| reforms | Diocletian tried to establish ---- that would improve Rome's political situation |
| four | Diocletian believed the empire was too large for one person to rule so he divided it into ---- parts |
| officials | he named ---- to rule these areas but kept authority over all |
| economy | Diocletian also worked to improve Rome's ---- |
| slow | to ---- inflation, Diocletian issued rules that set the prices of goods and the wages to be paid to workers |
| died | to make sure more goods were produced, Diocletian ordered workers to remain at the same jobs until they ---- |
| failed | Diocletian;s reforms failed |
| ignored | the people ---- his new rules, and Diocletian did not have enough power to make them obey |
| retired | in A.D. 305 Diocletian ---- from office |
| Constantine | after a period of conflict , another general named ---- became emperor in A.D. 312 |
| aid | to ---- the economy , Constantine issued several orders |
| trade | the sons of workers had to follow their father's ---- |
| land | the sons of farmers had to work the ---- their fathers worked |
| west | Constantine's changes, however, did not stop the empire's decline in the ---- |
| east | when the empire started to decline in the west, Constantine moved the capital from dying rome to a new city in the ---- |
| capital | Constantine moved the ---- to the Greek city of Byzantium |
| Constantinople | Byzantium later became known as ---- |
| Istanbul | today, Constantinople is called ---- |
| Christian | Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to become a ---- |
| Christianity | he first came to believe in ---- when he was a young military leader |
| cross | Constantine believed he had seen a flaming ---- cross in the sky that said "by this sign thou shall conquer" |
| battle | the next day his army was victorious in an important ---- |
| call | he believed that the cross was a ---- to the Christian God |
| How did inflation occur? | the government put less gold in its coins to create more money to pay soldiers. people learned that the coins did not have value the coins as highly |
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