Roman Vocabulary
Name the engineering achievement that brought water from the mountains to the city of Rome.
What is an aqueduct?
Which of the following places was NOT a part of the Roman Empire: Rome, Egypt, China, Asia Minor?
What is China?
Franks, Goths, Huns, and Vandals are examples of what…
What are barbarians?
He is known as the “1st Christian Emperor” of the Roman Empire?
Who is Constantine?
This word means "to cut" or "to break up"
What is schism?
This language was not only spoken by the Romans, it was also used by the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Latin?
According to Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus fought over Rome. Who won?
Who is Romulus?
These "mistakes" including not wearing proper armor and enforcing conscription helped cause the end of Rome.
What are military mistakes?
This emperor was responsible for creating a new system of codes, or laws.
Who is Justinian?
In what church could priests marry?
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Money that people pay the government so it can run a country.
What are taxes?
This famous Carthaginian general attacked the Roman Empire using elephants.
Who is Hannibal?
Who are the Huns?
Rome was relocated to this new city in the east.
What is Constantinople?
He is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the pope?
These tribes lived outside the boundaries of the Roman Empire and spoke a different language.
What are barbarians?
Which of the following was NOT a province of the Roman Empire: Thrace, Britain, Gaul, or Norway?
What is Norway?
This "corruption" was seen through 22 assassinations of Roman emperors in a period of less than 50 years.
What is political corruption?
He held the ultimate power in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Who is the emperor?
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, this is the main language.
What is Greek?
This term refers to broken down buildings that still remain.
What are ruins?
This person is known for starting the “Time of Peace”
Who is Emperor Augustus?
Rome fell because coins lost their value. This caused the prices of goods to go up, and eventually people had to trade.
What is inflation?
Constantine strategically chose the city of Constantinople because, it was closer to trade ($), it was protected by a cliff, and it was surrounded by three sides of...
What is water?
After a fight regarding icons, the Pope had no other choice than to do this to Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
What is excommunicate?