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6th SS - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Ancient Rome
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the religion of people who follow Jesus | Christianity |
| Roman citizens who worked as farmers, craft workers, or traders | plebeians |
| people elected by the citizens to run the government | representatives |
| a government in which people choose representatives to act for them | republic |
| the count for the number of people living in a place | census |
| the first bishop of Rome | Peter |
| brothers who founded Rome | Romulus and Remus |
| River that runs through the center of Italy | Tiber River |
| Members of Rome's noble families | patricians |
| 3 branches of Rome's government | senate, tribunes, and consuls |
| earliest written collection of Roman laws, drawn up by patricians about 450 BC, that became the foundation of Roman law | Twelve Tables |
| Phoenician city in which Rome went to war with | Carthage |
| Roman war with Carthage for the control of Sicily | Punic War |
| Carthaginian army general who was sworn to be Rome's enemy forever and tried to take down Rome but ultimately failed | Hannibal |
| culture that heavily affected Roman life, culture, art, education, etc. | Greek |
| determined how Rome would act toward other governments and had control over all money collected and spent | Senate |
| leaders of the citizen assembly | tribunes |
| ambitious young Roman military general who through military conquests and victories became dictator of Rome; was betrayed and stabbed to death | Julius Caesar |
| nephew of Julius Caesar and first emperor of Rome | Augustus Caesar |
| war between groups within one country | civil war |
| 21 year old Egyptian Queen who joined forces with Julius Caesar | Cleopatra |
| someone who rules with absolute power | dictaor |
| Julius Caesar was told this in a dream before he was betrayed and killed on this day | Beware the Ides of March |
| Octavian changed his name to | Augustus |
| Latin word for Roman peace and a period of peace for the Roman Empire | Pax Roma |
| a slave or criminal condemned to death and forced to fight | gladiator |
| an enormous stadium built for gladiator fights | colosseum |
| city buried in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted | Pompeii |
| replaced Roman columns in architecture | Roman archs |
| Son of God; Messiah; founder of Christianity | Jesus |
| a leader who would be sent by God to guide the Jewish people and set up God's rules on Earth | Messiah |
| simple stories that contain a message or truth | parables |
| mother of Constantine who secured many holy sites in the Holy Land | Saint Helen |
| legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire | Constantine |
| Roman Empire was split into two parts | east and west |
| Emperor who takes power of empire and decides to split empire into two parts | Emperor Diocletian |
| a policy of arresting, injuring, or even killing members of a religious, ethnic, or other minority group | persecution |
| new capital of Rome in the East | Constantinople |
| present-day Constantinople | Istabul |
| Eastern half of Roman Empire became known as | Byzantine Empire |
| branch of Christianity that developed in the Byzantine Empire and that does not recognize the pope as its leader | Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
| ruled Byzantine Empire who tried to unify the empire by persecuting non-Christians | Emperor Justinian |
| for over 1,000 years was the world's largest building | Hagia Sophia |
| a code of law that standardized laws in the Byzantine Empire and dealt with marriage, property rights, slavery, crime, and women's rights | Justinian Code |
| Justinian's wife who he went to for advice | Theodora |
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