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Ch. 9 History Notes
Term | Definition |
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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.. |