Wars and Battles
The number of Punic Wars
What is three?
Two main social classes of the Roman Republic.
Who were the plebeians and the patricians?
An independent monk who helped spread Christianity to Ireland.
Who was Saint Patrick?
The main religion of the Byzantine Empire
What was Christianity?
Four characteristics of the Middle Ages.
What was series of kingdoms, political chaos, lack of trade, and absence of a unified government?
War weapon developed by Basil II in order to defeat Tzar Samuel.
What is a trebuchet?
Center of life in Ancient Rome, home to temples and government buildings.
What was the Roman Forum?
Roman senator and tyrant. Stabbed 23 times during the Ides of March.
Who was Julius Caesar?
Split between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church.
What was the Great Schism?
Length of the Middle Ages
What is one thousand years?
Series of Holy Wars that aided to the fall of the Byzantine Empire
What were the Crusades?
Considered the founders of Rome, sons of Mars and Rhea Silvia
Who were Romulus and Remus?
Byzantine Emperor, known for locking people in the hippodrome to end the Nika Riots and later building the Hagia Sophia.
Who was Justinian?
Considered the greatest enemies of the Byzantines
Who were the Seljuk Turks?
Code of honor for knights in the Middle Ages.
What was chivalry?
Confrontation between Maxentius and Constantine.
What was the Battle of Milvian Bridge?
A group of up to 6000 soldiers.
What is a legion?
First emperor of the Byzantine Empire, moved the capital from Rome to present day Istanbul.
Who was Constantine?
What were a moat, a terrace, and the inner wall?
Social pyramid during the Middle Ages.
What were monarchs, nobles, knights, and peasants?
Territory that Rome gained during the Punic Wars.
What was Sicily, Corsica, Spain, and Northern Africa?
A political alliance formed by Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Marcus Licinius Crassus.
What was the First Triumvirate?
King of the Franks, crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III.
Who was Charlemagne?
Managed to defeat the Byzantines by collapsing their wall with gunpowder and cannons
Who were the Ottomans?
A governmental system based on the agreements between lords and vassals and the use of fiefs as payment.
What is feudalism?