Government
This most powerful governing branch controlled the finances, passed laws, and oversaw foreign affairs.
What is the Senate?
This place had fertile soil and a climate that supported agriculture and contributed the Latins to become the first settlers here.
What is the Italian Peninsula/Rome?
Plebeians were allowed to _ patricians.
What is marry?
After Carthage fought one of Rome's allies, Rome declared war on Carthage. After three years of battles, Rome captured and destroyed Carthage. This happened in the ______ Punic War.
What is the 3rd?
The main architectural feature of the Colosseum is the _____.
What is the arch?
He divided the empire in half, keeping the eastern part under his control and appointing a ruler for the western half.
Who is Diocletian?
Two patricians served with equal authority in place of a king to manage the affairs of the government, command the Roman army, and serve as supreme judges. These patricians were called ___________.
What are consuls?
These people developed (and thus improved the Roman way of life) a writing system based on the Greek alphabet. They paved roads, built arches, drained marshes, and built a sewage system.
Who are the Etruscans?
The plebeians could be elected as _________.
During this Punic war, the Romans developed a ship that dropped a plank with a spiked tip. Rome defeated the Carthaginian navy and gained control of Sicily.
What is the 1st?
These people believed that true happiness in this life can be found if people are free from fear.
Who are the Epicureans?
This divided the Roman Catholic Church.
What is false teaching?
Several of this type of group existed in the early republic with this group being the most powerful by voting on new laws, making declarations of war, and electing members of another governing branch.
What is the Assembly of Centuries?
These were the two classes of people.
Who were patricians (ruling class) and plebeians (working class - farmers and such)?
Plebeians were given __ power.
What is veto?
Hannibal led his soldiers and war elephants through the Alps to make a surprise attack on Rome. Hannibal returned to Carthage after hearing it was under attack, but the Roman commander Scipio was victorious. This was the _______ ________ ________
What is the Second Punic War?
These people believed that doing one's duty leads to happiness and that fate governs all things
Who are the Stoics?
Christians were not praised by this person for worshiping God rather than the false gods of Rome.
Who is Diocletian?
These three men, ________, Crassus, and Pompey formed the Triumvirate.
Who is Julius Caesar?
These were used to promote trade, exchange cultural idea and spread the gospel.
What were Roman Roads?
______ were written down so that plebeians could be familiar with
them.
What are laws?
The Holy Spirit came through the preaching of __________, and almost three thousand people repented and believed the gospel.
Who is Peter?
Christians believe that the goal of life is to give glory and praise to ______.
Who is God?
This was weakened when Diocletian put assistant rulers over each half.
What is the Roman Empire?
This calendar is based on the birth of Christ and adds a day to February every four years.
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
This was a period of peace that began under Octavian.
What is the Pax Romana?
Plebeians were allowed to have their own ________ and to serve as tribunes.
What is assembly?
He traveled throughout Galilee teaching and healing sicknesses.
Who is Jesus?
Nero persecuted Christians by putting them to _______.
What is death?
The Roman Empire was weakened by soldiers giving allegiance to their ________, rather than to the empire.
Theodosius I divided the empire, and the western part fell to ______.
What are barbarians?