Rome: Republic to Empire
: A form of government in which citizens elect leaders to represent them.
What is a republic?
The emperor who divided the empire and moved the capital city to Byzantium.
Who was Constantine?
The ancient language of Rome that continued to influence European languages for centuries.
What is Latin?
The distance in miles that the new capital of Byzantium was located east of Rome.
What is 800 miles?
The influential empress who helped pass laws granting women property rights and argued jobs should be based on ability.
Who was Empress Theodora?
The series of three wars that allowed Rome to gain control of land around the Mediterranean Sea.
What are the Punic Wars?
The year by which the western half of the Roman Empire had completely collapsed.
What is 500 CE?
Roman engineering structures built to carry fresh water into cities.
What are aqueducts?
The two continents that met at Constantinople, making it a wealthy trade crossroads.
What are Europe and Asia?
The famous Eastern Orthodox church built in Constantinople whose name means "Church of Holy Wisdom".
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The powerful general who ended the Roman Republic when he seized power and became dictator for life.
Who was Julius Caesar?
High taxes, widespread poverty, and high unemployment were all examples of this type of problem in Western Rome.
What are economic problems?
The legal rule from Roman law stating that an accused person cannot be considered guilty until proven so in court.
What is "innocent until proven guilty"?
The main geographical feature surrounding Constantinople that made the city easy to defend.
What is water?
The valuable item smuggled out of China to start a profitable new industry in Constantinople.
What are silkworm eggs?
Rome's first emperor who expanded the empire's boundaries and ended 100 years of civil war.
Who was Caesar Augustus?
$400 Clue: The group that frequently chose the next emperor through bribes because there was no peaceful system to transfer power.
What is the army?
Two major areas of Roman culture that still influence the design of modern public buildings and monuments today.
What are art, architecture, and engineering?
The Byzantine emperor who ruled during the "Golden Age" and created a simplified code of laws.
Who was Justinian I?
The event in 1054 where the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church permanently split.
What is the Great Schism?
The 200-year period of peace and stability across the Roman Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
The outside invaders who crossed Rome's weak borders and divided the Western empire into separate kingdoms.
Who were Germanic tribes?
The Roman political idea of granting individuals rights and responsibilities within a society.
What is citizenship?
Three regions where Emperor Justinian I successfully reconquered lost Roman lands.
What are Alexandria (Egypt), Carthage (North Africa), and Athens (Europe)?
Pictures of Christ used in worship that caused a major religious disagreement between the churches in Rome and Constantinople.
What are icons?