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Unit 3 - Chapter 8
The Roman Empire - 27 B.C. to A.D. 476
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A bridge that carries flowing water | Aqueduct |
| Lasting forever | Eternal |
| Having more of the things that make life easier | Civilized |
| The Roman peace that began during the reign of Augustus Caesar | Pac Romana |
| To talk about something; to have two or more sides talk about something | Debate |
| To be ill in one's mind | Insane |
| To say that someone must suffer or die; to say that something is wrong | Condemn |
| Plays and other things that amuse people | Entertainment |
| A small musical instrument with strings | Lyre |
| The dividing line between two countries | Border |
| To lose power; to turn downward | Decline |
| The money collected by the government and used to pay for things | Treasury |
| A disease that spreads from person to person and kills many people | Plague |
| The religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible | Christianity |
| Having something to do with the gods or with god | Divine |
| One of four books of the New Testament part of the Bible; a word that means "good news" | Gospel |
| The land that belongs to a people; the country people call their home | Homeland |
| A king sent by God who will save people from something | Messiah |
| A perosn who speaks for God | Prophet |
| To stop being loyal to someone; to do something to hurt someone | Betray |
| To hang someone on a cross so that the person dies | Crucify |
| An amazing or wonderful event that no one can explain | Miracle |
| A follower of someone | Disciple |
| A non-Jew | Gentile |
| A person who rules only part of an empire while another emperor rules another part | Coemperor |
| to continue to be; to stay alive | Survive |
| The idea or reason behind something | Basis |
| Useful; having to do with the use of something | Practical |
| Making sense; fair | Reasonable |
| A mixture of sand, water, andother materials that hardents to become rocklike | Concrete |
| something that makes a thing or person not perfect | Imperfection |
| A ceiling that is high, arched, and overs a large space | Vaulted |
| The act of making something free from disease, or haelthy and clean | Sanitation |
| An underground pipe that carries away dirty water and human waste | Sewer |