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A territory
province
Currency
Money
languages that developed from Latin, such as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian
Romance languages
Roman author; he wrote the Aeneid, the great epic about the founding of Rome.
Virgil
A human-made raised channel that carries water from distant places
aqueduct
style of writing that pokes fun at people or society
satire
a legal system based on a written code of laws
Civil law
Greek surgeon of the Roman Empire; he described heart valves and studied arteries and veins.
Galen
the decay of people’s values
corruption
Roman poet and author; he was one of the greatest authors of the ancient world and wrote poems on Roman mythology.
Ovid
Roman Peace; a period of general peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire that lasted from 27 BC to AD 180
Pax Romana
Built a wall to keep the Celts from attacking Roman territory
Hadrian
Leader of the Huns; he led invasions of Constantinople, Greece, Gaul, and northern Italy and was greatly feared by the Romans.
Attila
Roman emperor; he divided the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves.
Diocletian
Despite the Romans’ best efforts to defend their city, the _____ sacked, or destroyed, Rome in 410.
Goths
King of the Franks; he was a Christian leader who built a huge kingdom in Gaul.
Clovis