Roman Empire Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is the Colosseum? | The place romans would go to watch gladiators fight. |
Who was Jupiter? | The Roman god of the heavens. |
Who was Lares? | A guardian spirit the Romans believed that they watched over their land. |
Who was Diana? | The Roman goddess of the hunt. |
What was the Pantheon? | A temple where the Romans worshiped their gods and goddesses. |
Who was Juno? | The queen of the Roman gods. |
Who was Penates? | A god the Romans believed that watched over their stored food. |
What was the Circus Maximus? | A theater where romans would watch sports and circuses. |
What are rituals? | Ceremonies. |
Who was Minerva? | The roman goddess of wisdom. |
Who was Vesta? | A roman guardian of the fireside. |
Who was Mars? | The roman god of war. |
Who was Saul? (Paul) | A christian missionary who went around the Roman Empire preaching to the Romans. |
Who was Peter? | A disciple of Jesus, who preached to Gentiles as well as Jews |
What does it mean to persecute? | To treat cruelly. |
What is conversion? | To change from one religion to another. |
What was Phillippi? | A big Roman city that Paul wrote letters to in Phillippians, a book of the bible. |
What is a Gentile? | A non-jew. |
What was Ephesus? | A big Roman City that was located in Asia minor. |
What was Corinth? | A city in the Roman World, that Paul reached and wrote letters to form the book Corinthians. |
What is a sect? | A group. |
Who was Tacitus? | A roman historian, senator, governor, and consul. |
Who was Valerian? | A roman emperor that persicuted the Christians. |
Who was Theodosius? | A roman emperor threatened with excommunication. |
Who was Pliny the Younger? | A governor of Asia Minor that helped persicute the Christians. |
Who was Diocletian? | An emperor of Rome who began the most violent persecution of the Christians. |
Who was Bishop Ambrose? | A bishop who threatened theodosius with excommunication. |
Who was Nero? | An emporer of Rome who blamed the christians for starting a fire that burned Rome. |
Who was Decius? | An emporer that forced all the citizens of Rome to worship and make sacrifices to the Roman gods. |
Who was Constantine? | The first emporer of Rome that followed Christianity. |
What are Annals? | Historical records. |
What is a martyr | A person who chooses to die instead of giving up their religious beliefs. |
What is a chi-rho? | A christian symbol with a "p" and an "x" combined. |
What is excommunocation? | Being banned from the church until you repent your actions. |
What are the pagams? | People who were not Christians ot Jews. |
Who was Diocletian? | An emperor of Rome who began the most violent persecution of the Christians. |
Who was Bishop Ambrose? | A bishop who threatened theodosius with excommunication. |
Who was Nero? | An emporer of Rome who blamed the christians for starting a fire that burned Rome. |
Who was Decius? | An emporer that forced all the citizens of Rome to worship and make sacrifices to the Roman gods. |
Who was Constantine? | The first emporer of Rome that followed Christianity. |
What are Annals? | Historical records. |
What is a martyr | A person who chooses to die instead of giving up their religious beliefs. |
What is a chi-rho? | A christian symbol with a "p" and an "x" combined. |
What is excommunocation? | Being banned from the church until you repent your actions. |
What are the pagams? | People who were not Christians ot Jews. |
Who was Dio Cassius? | Roman historian that wrote about Rome beginning to decline. |
Who was Commodus? | A roman emperor that was assassinated. |
Who was Septimius Severus? | A military leader and emperor. |
Who was Maximian? | Ruler of western empire after Diocletian divided the empire into eastern a western regions. |
Who was Severus Alexander? | Roman emperor and last ruler of the Severus dynasty. Was assassinated. |
Who was Alaric? | Visigoth king who conquered Rome in 410. |
Who were the Vandals? | A barbarian tribe that raided most of the west empire. |
Who was Odoacer? | Germanic chief that forced the last emperor out of the western part of Rome. |
Who were the Visigoths? | A tribe of Barbarians that killed an emperor of the western empire. |
Who were the Goths? | A tribe of barbarians that split into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. |
Who was Orosius? | Christian historian who lived during the fall of Rome. |
Who were the Franks? | A tribe of Barbarians that entered the Roman Empire around A.D. 350. |
Who was Valens? | Emperor of the eastern empire who was killled by the Visigoths. |
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