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Ch. 9 History Notes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colosseum | arena that could hold 60,000 people. |
| Latin | became the basis of many modern European languages. |
| Forum | open space for a marketplace in the middle of Rome. |
| Pantheon | temple built to honor Rome's gods. |
| Horace | a poet who wrote satires that poked fun at human weaknesses. |
| Constantine | moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople. |
| Christianity | began in the Roman Empire. |
| Severans | emperors who stayed in power by paying the army well. |
| Western Roman Empire | fell in 476 A.D. to a Germanic general named Odoacer. |
| Germanic tribes | Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Angles, Saxons. |
| Eastern Roman Empire | thrived and became the Byzantine Empire. |
| Visigoths | a Germanic tribe that rebelled against Rome in A.D. |
| Justinian | a strong emperor of the Byzantine Empire. |
| Byzantine Empire | included Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Arabs, Jews, Slavs, and others; lasted about 1,000 years. |
| Hagia Sophia | the religious center of the Byzantine Empire. |
| Justinian Code | a very influential legal code of the Byzantine Empire. |
| The Empress Theodora | helped women gain more rights. |
| silk weaving | a major Byzantine industry. |
| As time passed, | the Byzantine Empire became more Greek and less Roman.. |