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The Italian Peninsula juts out into what sea?
Mediterranean
Through military conquest, Rome controlled almost all of this place by 267 BCE...
Italy
This term means that laws apply equally to everyone...
Rule of Law
I'm 44 BCE because Caesar had become so popular his rivals feared his power and did this to him...
Assassinated
This is the name of the Huns leader...
Attila
More than 50 years before the Zealots revolted, lived this Jewish person who grew up in a town called Nazareth in Galilee...
Jesus
a person who is willing to die for his or her beliefs
martyr
In the Western Roman Empire, who claimed authority over all people, including its rulers?
the Pope
The toe of the Italian "boot" points to what island?
Sicily
The Roman army reorganized their army into smaller groups that contained about 6,000en a piece called this...
Legion
Rome's power was threatened by this place, a powerful trading empire based along the North African coast...
Carthage
This is the term for when three rulers share power...
Triumvirate
The name of the last Roman emperor of the city of Rome and the western Roman empire...
Romulus Augustulus
Around the year 30 CE Jesus began to travel thoughout these two areas preaching to people about his ideas...
Galilee and Judaea
the Roman emperor who ordered his soldier to paint the Christian cross on their sheilds in order to win the Battle of the Milvian Brodge...
Constantine
In the Eastern Roman Empire what two things does the emperor control?
church and government
This mountain range runs along the top of the Italian Peninsula...
The Alps
When Rome conquered a place theu treated conquered people how?
Fairly
The First Picnic War began when Rome sought control of the fertile island of...
Sicily
This was the name of the first emperor of Rome who changed his actual name from Octavian to...
Augustus or "the majestic one"
The name of the first non-Roman ruler of the city of Rome and the western Roman Empire...
Odoacer
this is the name for the 12 followers of Jesus who travelled with him...
disciples
the Roman decree that allowed all religious groups in the empire, including Christians, to practice their religions freely in the Roman empire...
Edict of Milan
What two churches formed in the Roman empire?
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
This mountain range extends north to south near the center of the Italian Peninsula...
Apennines
This is the name for the ruling class in Rome...
Patricians
The Second Punic War began when Carthage tried to expand its empire into what area?
Spain
This is the Roman name for a governor...
Proconsul
Roman law, government structure, the concept of the rule of law all influenced the government and legal systems in...
The United States
According to the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Jesus preached that who was coming soon to rule the world?
God
an organization with different levels of authority; a classification into ranks...
hierarchy
Who expanded Christianity into the British Isles and eastern Europe?
missionaries
Rome was founded about 15 miles up this river...
Tiber
This is the name for the ordinary citizens of Rome...
Plebians
This Carthaginian general led his forces during the Second Punic War and almost toppled Roman power in the region.
Hannibal
This is the name for the nearly 200 years of peace in the Roman Empire ending around 180 CE...
Pax Romana "Roman Peace"
Languages like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian based on Latin are also referred to as what?
Romance languages
the accounts that apostles wrote of Jesus' life...
gospels
regular church members; non-clergy
laity
Latin-speaking peoples, called Latins, settled on this plain in central Italy...
Latium
This was one of the two heads of the government of the Roman Republic...
Consul
The Third Punic War occurred when Rome attacked Carthage in this year...
149 BCE
A human made channel that carried water long distances...
Aqueduct
The ancient Roman poet Horace wrote these types of works that poke fun humans weaknesses referred to as...
satires
The teachings of Jesus were summarized in what famous sermon?
The Sermon on the Mount
a representation of an object or person of worship
icon
After 800 BCE these two groups moved into the region where the Romans lived...
Greeks and Etruscans
This branch of the government was involved in writing and passing laws...
Legislative
These were large farming estates in ancient Rome...
Latifundia
During the 200's CE civil wars and foreign invasions caused a general increase in prices and a decrease in the value of money called this...
Inflation
The ancient Roman poets Virgil and Ovid wrote in this story form in which characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation...
allegory
a story used to illustrate an idea
parable
a person who opposes the use of icons
iconoclast
The Etruscan settled north of Rome in this place...
Etruria
This was an elected official who protects the rights of ordinary citizens...
Tribune
These three men joined forces in 60 BCE to rule the Roman Republic...
Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar
Diocletian the emperor introduced these political changes in 284 CE...
Reform
the deliverer promised to the Jews
messiah
the act of being saved from the effects of sin...
salvation
to declare that a person or group is no longer a member of a church
excommunicate
The Etruscan taught the Romans how to do which things?
Build with brick and tile, drain marshes, lay out streets, build temples, religious rituals, types of clothing, and army structure
This is a person who has absolute power to rule...
Dictator
Caesar and his forces officially became invaders of Rome when they crossed this river...
Rubicon
Because the city of Rome had become vulnerable to attack the emperor Constantine had the capital of the Roman Empire moved to this city...
Byzantium which he renamed Constantinople
the name for the Jews who believed they should fight the Romansfor their freedom
Zealots
What empire contributed to the growth of Christianity?
the Roman Empire
a separation or split from a church
schism
After the Romans overthrew their Etruscan king, they established this type of government where citizens elect their leaders...
Republic
The idea that citizens have a responsibility to help their country...
Civic duty
When Caesar invaded Rome, he began a war between opposing groups of people in the same country known as a...
civil war
This groups of nomadic warriors became a threat to Rome's eastern territories in the 300's and 400's CE...
Huns
a fortress in what is now southeastern where Jewish fighters and civilians took refuge in 70 CE...
Masada
an underground cemetary
catacomb
a religious community
monastery