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What is a Plebeian?
Common farmers, artisans, and merchants who made up the majority of the population. Lower class
What religion did Christianity stem from?
Judaism
What is something that our capital buildings have that the Roman Empire inspired?
Columns
These groups of people were called what for not speaking the same language as the Empire?
Barbarians
What three (3) continents are apart of the Roman Empire?
Europe, Asia, Africa
What is a legion?
Large military units of the Roman Army
Poor, enslaved, women, etc.
The English language took a lot of their root words from this Roman Empire language
Latin
What two rivers in the Roman Empire made up the "Fertile Crescent"
Tigris and Euphrates
What is Pax Romana?
Roman Peace
Both Christianity and Judaism are this; the belief in only one god
Monotheistic
What in the Roman Empire was similar to our college football stadiums we see today?
The Colosseum
What were the groups of people called that consistently invaded the Roman Empire?
Germanic Tribes
The most influential city to the early stages of the Empire was:
Rome
What are consuls?
Head of state who directs the government. They have 1 year terms and cannot be reelected for 10 years
This emperor announced the end of persecution of Christians in 313 AD after he had a revelation
Emperor Constantine
What was something that the Roman Empire had their soldiers create?
Roads
The Western Roman Empire fell in this year
476 CE
What is the main body of water completely surrounded by the Roman Empire?
Mediterranean Sea
WHO was in the first Triumvirate?
Caesar, Crassus, Pompey
Emperor Theodosius
What helped the flow of water in the Roman Empire?
Aqueducts
What is the Eastern Roman Empire called?
Byzantine Empire
What two areas were NOT conquered by the Roman Empire?
Germania and Parthia