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What is a Chief Religious Leader?
Succeeded Augustus, known as his stepson
Who is Tiberius?
Who is Caligula?
Provide an Economic Factor that led to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
What is
- Gap between rich and poor
- Impoverished workers
- Fewer members of the lower classes could afford to buy goods
- Large estates became self-sufficient?
Name of the Western Empire following the split into administrative realms.
What was the Roman Empire?
Define Pax Romana.
What is the Roman Peace?
He placed parts of Great Britain Under Roman Control
Who is Claudius?
He was tyrant-like and suspected of starting a fire in Rome.
Who is Nero?
Provide Military Factors that led to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
What was
- Reliance on barbarian troops
- Unstable Armies (made and unmade emperors)
- Expected payment for service?
Name the Eastern Empire following the split into administrative realms.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
What is First Citizen?
He helped carry out a massive public works program for Rome.
Who is Trajan?
He strengthened Roman defenses with a wall named after him.
Provide at least three impacts from the Roman Empire.
What are:
Administration of a vast empire
Christianity
Architecture
Engineering
Historians
Jewish Diaspora
Literature
Roman law
Romance languages?
Name the three classes of Roman Society.
Define Imperator.
What is Successful General?
He built the Colosseum and destroyed the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem.
Who is Vespasian?
His reign's end was also considered the end to the Pax Romana.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
Provide Political Factors that led to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
What was:
- Decline in patriotism
- East/West split
- No orderly succession?
The Roman Empire was deposed by this Barbaric Leader.
Who was Odoacer?
Define the principle of Primus Inter Pares
What is First among equals?
He divided the empire into two administrative realms.
Who is Diocletian?
He moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium and legalized Christiainity.
Who is Constantine?
Provide Social Factors that led to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
What was:
- Population decline
- Decline in intellectual culture
- Religious divisions?
The Eastern Empire was conquered by this group.
Who was the Ottoman Turks?