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Ch.10 vocabulary
6th grade, history, chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A river in Italy: | Tiber River |
| An arm of land surrounded by the Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian, and Adriatic Seas; location of the country of Italy: | Italian Peninsula |
| A large body of water bordered by Europe, Asia, and Africa: | Mediterranean Sea |
| A city near the middle of the western coast of Italy: | Rome |
| Etrusan leader and the last king of ancient Rome: | Tarquin |
| Ancient Rome leader who, with his supporters, forced the Etruscans out of Rome: | Junius Brutus |
| An important Phoenician traing post in North Africa: | Carthage |
| Ancient Roman general who was defeated and captured in a war between Rome and Carthage: | Regulus |
| Carthaginian general who launched an invasion on the Romans from Spain by crossing the Alps: | Hannibal |
| Ancient Roman general who attacked Carthage and forced Hannibal to retreat from Rome: | Scipio |
| Ancient Roman general whose murder led to the end of the Roman Republic: | Julius Caesar |
| a wealthy, powerful citizen of Rome: | patrician |
| a common citizen of ancient Rome: | plebeian |
| a form of government in which citizens hae the right to choose their leaders: | republic |
| a person elected to represent the people: | representative |
| a governing body in which ancient Roman representatives served: | Senate |
| in ancient Rome, one of two officials who managed the government and the army: | consul |
| a person who has total control over the people: | dictator |
| in ancient Rome, men who were appointed to protect the rights of plebeians: | tribune |
| a sense of pride in one's country: | patriotism |
| an ancient Roman emperor: | caesar |
| a famous ancient Roman road: | Appian Way |
| three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, starting in 264 B.C.: | The Punic Wars |
| a famous Roman arena: | Colosseum |
| Ancient Roman emperor whose rule began a long period of prosperity and peace called the Pax Romana, or "the Roman Peace" for the Roman Empire: | Augustus |
| cruel ancient Roman emperor who was assassinated by members of his bodyguard: | Caligula |
| Ancient Roman emperor after Caligula who tried to improve conditions in the Empire: | Claudius |
| Ancient Roman emperor upon whose death civil war broke out: | Nero |
| Ancient Roman philosopher, general, and emperor who was perhaps the greatest of Rome's "Five Good Emperors.": | Marcus Aurelius |
| a Roman writer who often wrote about the battles at the Colosseum: | Seneca |
| the ruler of an empire: | emperor |
| in ancient Rome, a professional fighter: | gladiator |
| "Roman Peace," a time when ancient Rome was prosperous and peaceful: | Pax Romana |
| a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea: | Palestine |
| a city in ancient Palestine and the home of Jesus: | Nazareth |
| A young Jewish man who taught in Palestine and founded Christianity: | Jesus |
| died A.D. 67; disciple of Jesus who helped spread his teachings throughout the Roman Empire: | Peter |
| died A.D. 68; disciple of Jesus who helped spread his teachings throughout the Roman Empire: | Paul |
| Christian emperor who made Christianity equal to all other religions in Rome and reunited the Roman Empire after Diocletian had divided it into two parts: | Constantine |
| Ancient Roman emperor who made Christianity Rome's official religion in 380: | Theodosius |
| an underground room used as a burial site: | catacomb |
| a Jewish place of worship: | synagogue |
| one of a small group of people who followed Jesus: | disciple |
| to punish: | persecute |
| the monotheistic religion based on the life, teachings, and death of Jesus: | Christianity |
| the part of the Christian Bible that contains the Gospels: | New Testament |
| in Christianity, the four books of the Bible known as the New Testament: | Gospels |
| one of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to help him preach and spread the Word of God: | Apostle |
| the savior,Jesus, God in human form: | Messiah |
| an old Greek city, renamed Constantinople, that became the center of the Byzantine Empire; present-day Istanbul: | Byzantium |
| the capital of the Byzantine Empire: | Constantinople |
| Ancient Roman emperor who succeeded his father, Marcus Aurelius, and began the decline of the Roman Empire: | Commodus |
| Ancient Roman emperor who restored order and strenghtened the economy of the Roman Empire, dividing it into two parts: | Diocletian |
| Last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476 at age 12 and reigned for only eleven months: | Romulus Augustulus |
| to sell something to the highest bidder: | auction |
| the leader of the Roman Catholic Church: | pope |
| to rob: | pillage |
| a person who destroys property: | vandal |
| an empire of lands formerly part of the Roman Empire with its center at the ciy of Constantinople: | Byzantine Empire |
| the early Christian church in the Eastern Roman Empire of which the emperor was head: | Byzantine Orthodox Church |
| the early Christian church in the Western Roman Empire of which the Pope was head: | Roman Catholic Church |
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