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Rome ch 4-5
Question | Answer |
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Law of the 12 Tables | Laws of ancient Rome composed in part from those of Solon, and other Greek legislators, and in part from the unwritten laws or customs of the Romans. These laws first appeared in the year of Rome 303, inscribed on ten plates of brass. |
legal reforms granted to plebeians | respect from the dictator |
reasons for the value of Rome's contributions to law | gave many laws princeples that we still use today |
Tarquin Kings | a line of kings in rome |
senate term | life |
base social unit | the family |
triumvirate | Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus |
advantage ion the wars | the infrantry |
1st Punic war | Carthage over Sicily |
2nd Punic war | carthage over spain |
3rd Punic war | to conquer and exterminate carthage. |
Octavian | first emperor pax romana |
title given to the emperor | first citizen princeps caesar |
reasons for trade growth in Rome | the emperor no piracy |
roman architecture | MOST taken from the Greeks aqueducts roads columns |
stoicism | indifference to pleasure or pain |
Septuagint | the Greek old testament |
Judea | Israel |
reasosn for persecution of the Christians | pagans were suspicious and the denied that the emperor |
council of nicea | a council of Christian bishops in nicea |
Diocletian | persecutor of Christians and emperor of rome |
Constantine | emperor of Rome legalized Christianity \converted to Christians |
who successfully invaded Rome | angels Huns Saxons Visigoths |
eastern roman empire | constantinople |