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Fall of Roman Empire
World History 5/23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2nd Triumvirate | octavion, marc antony, lepidous |
| Marc antony | Gave caesars funeral speech, made 2nd triumvirate, commited suicide |
| Brutus | Led senators against caesar |
| Octavion: (Augustus) | Caesars nephew, after retiring changed his name to augustus "most honored", first "emperor" of rome |
| Actium | Battle that ended mar cantony, sea battle,western coast of greece, marcus agrippa |
| praetorian guard | emperors private guards |
| Juliio claudian dynasty | dynasty founded by augustus becasue of his wife, tiberious became successor |
| Caligula | "little boots" murdered by praetorian guard, crazy emperor |
| Claudius | Uncle of caligula, faked a disability, made emperor |
| Nero | Blamed fire in city against christians |
| Hadrian | decided to put the wall up, hadrians laws |
| Hadrians wall | created in england to keep mountain men from coming up to england from scotland |
| Latifundia | slave run state, produced cash crops |
| diocletian | high army officer,last barrack emperor, divided empire into west and east |
| Constantine | last hope of rome, made byzantium capital, changed byzantium to constantinople |
| Theodosius | made christianity official religion |
| byzantium | east part of roman empire, former name before changed into the capital of rome |
| constantinople | originally byzantium, turned into capital of rome |
| messiah | savior of jews, warrior |
| jesus | went against what the pharisees believed in and was murdered |
| saul (paul) | had an apporition, worked with pharisees then quit |
| christos | greek word that means messiah |
| eastern orthadox | a type of religion |
| catholic | "universal" |
| Cleopatra | affair with antony, committed suicide with a poisinous snake |
| barrack emperors | 50 yrs, 29 emperors, 1 died of natural causesm put and taken out of power by military |
| mystery religions | "a bleesed life after death for those who are initiated into a secret" |
| pharisees | middle class who taught resurrection of dead, believed in angels and accepted gentiles |