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This businessman was one of the First Triumvirate.
Who is Crassus?
This form of government has an elected leader but not everyone can vote.
What is a Republic?
This man was beheaded for decrying hypocrisy and called people to repent of their sins.
Who is John the Baptist?
This Latin phrase means "Roman peace."
What is Pax Romana?
These types of people were made into gladiators.
Who are convicts and slaves?
This emperor issued the Edict of Milan and ended Christian persecution.
Who is Constantine?
This was the most powerful branch of the Roman Republic.
What is the Senate?
These features made Christianity attractive to people.
What is salvation and eternal life?
What is spiritual equality?
These massive farm estates were worked by slaves.
What is latifundias?
This city, built by Constantine, became the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
These brothers were killed after trying to help the poor after the Punic Wars.
Who are the Gracchus brothers?
The Law of Nations applied to these people.
Who are Romans and non-Romans?
"Love thy neighbor as thyself."
What is the most important commandment?
The male head of a family.
What is paterfamilias?
This group of people were wealthy land-owners and could hold office.
Who are patricians?
This man was killed by the Senate because he was gaining too much power.
Who is Caesar?
These are reasons why Rome succeeded in expanding.
What is allowing local governments to remain in effect?
What is building thousands of miles of roads?
This reason led the Romans to begin persecuting Christians.
What is not worshipping the emperor as a god?
This Roman policy allowed non-Romans to follow their own religions.
What is religious tolerance?
These two were probably the worst rulers in Rome.
Who are Caligula and Nero?
These are ways Romans kept people they conquered from rebelling.
What is building roads?
What is promising Roman citizenship?
This was the result of Roman persecution of Christians.
What is the death of martyrs encouraging more conversions?
In this system, plebeians provided military service for patricians, and patricians helped pay for the weddings of their plebeians' daughters.
What is the clientage system?