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History Final
Name Practice
| Name | Facts |
|---|---|
| Augustus | He tried to appear as a. man of the people, he returns power back to the senate, he tried to instill positive virtues back into roman culture |
| Tiberius | He was an unlikely and unwilling emperor, he relies on the bureaucratic system, he forms the pretorian guard. Our Lord is crucified under his reign |
| Virgil | Poet that Octavian (Augustus) hires to write a epic poem of the founding of Rome and instill good virtues into the Roman people. |
| Gaius Germanicus (Caligula) | Son of Germanicus, spent time with father in military camps. As a child he wore soldiers boots, hence "little boots". Turns out to be a terrible ruler, ex: invading England for sea shells |
| Claudius | Romanized the provinces, annexed Thrace, launched invasion of Britain, three of this wives had affairs, fourth one kills him |
| Nero | Tries to kill his mother 5 times then just executes her, burns Rome, 10 of 14 districts are demolished and blames fires on Christians |
| Vespasian | Builds Colosseum, brings stability to Rome after Nero's atrocious ruling |
| Titus | Son of Vespasian, sent to deal with Jewish upraising in Judea, under his reign Mt. Vesuvius erupts, only rules for 26 months then dies |
| Domitian | Brother of Titus, Caligula type, spends hours impaling flies on sticks, after 15 years he grew paranoid and started killing people, then he was killed himself |
| Nerva | Chosen by senate because he was boring and old, policy was to do nothing controversial, choose Trajan as his successor |
| Trajan | First emperor from the provinces, conquers Dacia, gave land to retired soldiers, dies suddenly |
| Hadrian | Focused on stabilizing the empire, codified Roman legal code, prohibited the cruel punishment of slaves, built Hadrian's wall |
| Antoninus Pios | He ruled over a very peaceful time, advanced the border from Britain to Scotland |
| Marcus Aurelius | Famous Stoic emperor, wrote meditations on stoicism, personal lead the romantic army |
| Commodus | Son of Marcus Aurelius, ends up like a Caligula type, assassinated after 12 years |
| Justin Martyr | Wrote defenses of the faith against pagans, tried to show how Christianity lines up with philosophy |
| Irenaeus | Bishop of Lyons in Gaul, writes a book attacking gnosticism |
| Tertulian | Used philosophy in defense of christian faith, then rejects it and joins the heretical cult called the Monatists |
| St. Patrick | Kidnapped and enslaved in Ireland by pagans, grows in his faith, escapes and then returns later to convert them |
| Gaelic people | Inhabit Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, they were very similar to germanic tribes |
| Boethius | Translates Plato and Aristotle into latin, writes a Consolation in Philosophy while awaiting execution |
| St. Benedict | Established the Benedictines, writes the rule of Saint Benedict, which is a model for future religious orders, established a monastery in Monte Cassino |
| Pope St. Gregory the Great | Exercised both temporal and spiritual power, helped rebuild Italy after Rome was devastated during the Gothic wars, created the Gregorian chant, sent missionaries to convert the Anglo-Saxons |
| St. Augustine of Canterbury | Sent to England to preach to the Anglo-Saxons, converts Ethelbert the king of Kent, helps to convert all of England |
| Pepin the Younger | First mayor of the Palace to effectively rule kingdom of Frank's, rescued Frankish kingdom from corruption, sends missionaries to Germany |
| Charles Martel | Known as the hammer, defeats the Muslim army at Tours, a.k.a. the battle of Poitiers, Muslims called it the battle of the martyrs |
| Pepin the Short | Begins a new line of Frankish kings called the Carolingians, named after his father Charles Martel, he does this via the permission of Pope Stephen II |
| Charlemagne | |
| Clotilda | Converts her husband Clovis to Christianity via praying and a miracle from God |
| Alcuin | Tutor of Charlemagne |
| Lombards | a Germanic tribe who migrated to Italy in the 6th century and established a kingdom that lasted for over 200 years, eventually being conquered by the Franks under Charlemagne |
| Saxons | The Saxons in what is now northern Germany were conquered by Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars, a people who inhabited parts of Scandinavia, and later migrated to Britain |
| Moors | Muslim invaders from Africa, conquered Spain and many parts of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Andrian | |
| Diocletian | |
| St. Polycarp | follower of the apostle John, bishop, martyr |
| Origen | Theologian, he explained the connections between Christianity and pagan thought |
| Galerius | Instituted Diocletian's persecution of Christians and continued it after his death |
| Constantine I | First Christian roman emperor, issued the edict of Milan |
| Arius | Starts the Arian heresy |
| St. Athanasius | Archbishop of Alexandria; champion of the Trinitarian doctrine of the Council of Nicaea |
| Theodosius I | Roman emperor, established Christianity as official religion of the roman empire |
| St. Jerome | Translated the Bible into Latin, also known as the irascible saint |
| St. Ambrose | Archbishop of Milan; great preacher and collector of hymns |
| St. Augustine | Theologian, bishop of Hippo, son of St. Monica |
| Stilicho | Roman general and counselor to the young Emperor Honorius |
| Alaric the Visigoth | King of the Visigoths, sacked Rome in 410 |
| St. Leo the Great | Pope, talked with Attila the Hun and convinced him not to sack Rome |
| Attila the Hun | King of the Huns, a very powerful fast moving army that used horses and short bows |
| Gensaric the Vandal | King of the Vandals, conquers roman Africa and sacked Rome in 455 |
| Visigoths | Germanic nation that conquered southern Gual and Hispanic and also sacked Rome |
| Vandals | |
| Huns | |
| St. Isidore | |
| Reccared | |
| Clovis | Husband of Clotilda she converts him to Christianity |
| Romulus Augustulus | Last of the western Roman emperors |
| Theodoric | |
| Justinian I | Byzantine emperor during the Nike Revolt, builds the Hagia Sophia |
| Theodora | Wife of Justinian, helps him through many crisis's and basically his co-ruler |
| Belisarius | Justinian’s top general, he puts down the Nika revolt |
| Heraclitus | |
| Abu Bakr | |
| Muhammad | |
| Omar | |
| Othman | |
| Ali | |
| St. Bede the Venerable | |
| Leo III the Isaurian | |
| Tarik | |
| Don Pelayo | |
| St. Boniface | Missionary to the pagans , chops down a tree that represented their god Thor |
| Louis I, the Pius | |
| Hrolf | |
| Rurik | |
| Otto I | |
| Sylvester II | |
| Henry IV | |
| William the Conqueror | Starts the Norman conquest of England, leader and general at the battle of Hastings. He conquers England |
| Henry II | |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | |
| St. Thomas Becket | Stands up to the king, who was his friend and sides with the church, and is murdered because of it |
| John "Lackland" | Forced to sign the Magna Carta because he was being an unfair king and taxing the people too much |
| Edward I | Gives his oldest son the title of Prince of Wales |
| Abbot Suger | |
| St. Bernard of Clairvaux | |
| Philip II "Augustus" | |
| St. Louis IX | |
| Urban II | |
| Godfrey of Bouillon | |
| Richard I "Lion-Heart" | |
| Saladin | |
| Innocent III | |
| St. Francis of Assisi | |
| St. Dominic | |
| St. Bonaventure | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | |
| The Mongols | |
| St. Catherine of Sienna | |
| Genghis Khan | |
| Simon de Montfort | |
| Hugh Capet | |
| Plantagenet | |
| Stephen of Blois | |
| Philip IV | |
| Urban VI | |
| Clement VII | |
| Martin V | Pope that ends the great schism |
| St. Helen | Saint who found a piece of the true cross |
| St. Joan of Arc |
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