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Ch six
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Etruscans | Early people swho ruled northern italy, gained control of Rome in six20 b.c. |
| First punic war | Battle between the roman and carthaginains overseas. carthaginians lost conrtol and had to pay indemnities. |
| constanine | emperors who protected christianity, he ordered churches to be built in rome. |
| augustine | scholar who influenced christianity |
| messiah | deliverer chosen by God |
| paul | convert who help spread christianity |
| alaric | visigoths, led his ppl into rome and caputered rome |
| legionaries | roman soldiers |
| patrician | latin nobles, lower class |
| plebeains | wealthy nonaristrocratic ppl |
| julio cluadians | tiberius, caligula, claudius, nero. |
| good emperors | trajan, hadrain, antoninus, marcus. |
| odoacer | german soldier, seized rome and became king |
| sicily | rome,end of the toe of the boot |
| scipio | general, second punic war, attacked carthage and defeated hannibal |
| factors of the fall of the Roman Empire | invadsion on the germanic tribes, complex interaction of events between ad 200 to ad five00 |
| consuls | officals |
| dictator | a leader whose word was law |
| tribunes | chosen representatives |
| republic | community in which the ppl elect their leaders |
| indemnity | payments |
| triumvirate | group of 3 ppl |
| aqueducts | artifical channels for carrying water |
| martyrs | someone who dies for their beliefs |
| disciples | followers |
| inflation | a rise in prices. |