Telling Time
These two letters stand for "Before Christ."
What is B.C.?
This map tool shows North, South, East, and West.
What is a compass rose?
A short story from everyday life that teaches a lesson.
What is a parable?
A person who is willing to die rather than give up their beliefs.
What is a martyr?
The time of Roman peace, from 27 BCE to 200 CE.
What is the Pax Romana?
AD stands for this Latin phrase, which means "year of our Lord."
What is Anno Domini?
This part of a map explains what the colors, shading, and symbols mean.
What is a map key (legend)?
A list of blessings Jesus shared in the Sermon on the Mount.
What are the Beatitudes?
Peace, good roads, and these two common languages helped Christianity spread.
What are Latin and Greek?
A draft of soldiers.
What is conscription?
BCE stands for this.
What is Before Common Era?
This map tool helps you measure the distance between two places.
What is a map scale?
This Jewish group believed armed rebellion was the only answer to Roman rule.
Who are the Zealots?
This emperor saw a sign in the sky and won a battle in 312 CE.
Who is Constantine?
Plagues dropped Rome's population from about 1 million to this number.
What is 250,000?
Historians today use BCE and CE because they are this kind of way to record time.
What is non-religious?
This sea sits right in the middle of the Roman Empire.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Instead of "an eye for an eye," Jesus taught people to do this.
What is love your enemy?
Constantine's law that ended the persecution of Christians.
What is the Edict of Milan?
Around the time of Julius Caesar, Rome changed from this type of government to an empire.
What is a republic?
Put these in order, oldest to newest: 476 CE, 27 BCE, 200 CE.
What is 27 BCE, 200 CE, 476 CE?
The Huns came into the empire from this direction.
What is the east OR What is from China?
Born Saul, he changed his life on the road to Damascus and wrote letters to early churches.
Who is Paul?
King Ezana made Christianity the official religion of this East African kingdom.
What is Axum?
A Roman historian called the Huns "unthinking animals." Historians should be careful because the writer may have this.
What is bias?