Terms and Names
Picture made out of many small, colored tiles/pieces of glass
What is a mosaic?
Name the 3 groups who settled along the Italian peninsula from 700 - 500 B.C. (also known as the first Romans).
Who are the Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans?
Who became leader of Rome in 284 A.D.?
Who succeeded him?
Name 2 steps of great significance taken by him.
Who was Diocletian?
Who was Constantine?
What were:
1) allowing Christians to worship freely (allowing Christianity to grow) and
2) moving the capital of the empire from Rome (Italy) to Byzantium/Constantinople (Greece) in 330 AD, shifting power from the western part of the Roman empire to the east.
Name the eastern part of the Roman Empire that survived.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
What civilization did the development of Roman culture borrow from?
What is Greek civilization?
Leader of the Franks who conquered Roman land in the province of Gaul
Who was Clovis?
The powerful group from northern Italy who had great impact on Roman culture.
Who were the Etruscans?
What year marks the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
What is 476 AD?
Name the 2 religions that emerged in 1054 as differences between the Eastern and Western Christian churches grew.
What are Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox?
1) Who developed Stoicism? What 3 values did Stoicism stress?
2) Describe the relationship between individuals and a country under Stoicism.
1) Who is the Greek philosopher Zeno? What are virtue, duty, and endurance in life?
2) Created a strong sense of citizenship in Rome. Country provides protection and security for its citizens. In return, citizens expected to take an active part in society to strengthen their country. These aspects of Stoicism still viewed as necessary qualities for being a good citizen.
An official split (term). Name the two Christian religions that were created after the Roman empire split.
Term: schism
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox
Who was the last king to rule Rome?
What year did the Romans drive him from power?
What form of government did the Romans establish afterwards?
Who was Tarquin the Proud?
What is 510 B.C.?
What is a republic?
What 3 broad categories of internal factors led to Rome's decline as an empire?
What are:
1) economic
2) military
3) political?
What are:
1) a sprawling empire
2) well-developed legal code (Justinian Code) and
3) large pubic works/building projects (eg, Hagia Sophia)
What are:
1) sculpture
2) philosophy of Stoicism and
3) Latin language?
A group of cultures or territories led by a single all-power ruler
What is an empire?
What year did the Roman Republic end?
Who became the ruler?
Which ruler was known as "the divine one"?
What is 45 B.C.?
Who was Julius Caesar?
Who was Augustus, Caesar's adopted son named Octavian?
What year did the final holdout of Roman power in the west fall?
Who conquered it? Name the area.
What is 486 AD?
Who was Clovis, leader of the Franks, a Germanic group who conquered the province of Gaul.
Which 2 groups believed they individually had final authority on religious matters?
Describe the relationship between Leo III and the Pope.
Who are popes and Byzantine emperors?
What is:Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons, viewing them as idol worship/belief in false gods.
The pope supported the use of icons (religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers) and excommunicated Leo III.
What advancements did the Romans make in the field of engineering?
Why did Romans build around 50,000 miles of roads? (2 reasons)
What are:
1) improved building methods with domes, vaults, and arches
2) construction of elaborate aqueducts, and
3) building a large and lasting system of roads.
What is Romans built around 50,000 miles of road to improve communications and travel across their far-reaching empire?
What are 5 key areas of the Roman World?
What are:
1) government
2) culture
3) belief systems
4) geography and
5) science and technology?
Name 4 elements of the Roman Republic government.
What are:
1) average citizens had a voice
2) all free-born males could vote
3) basic liberties protected
4) two leaders (consuls) headed the government and could only rule for one year, with the SEnate acting as a check to their power.
Name the 6 internal problems that specifically weakened the Roman Empire.
What are:
1) Economic decline (few new sources of wealth, increased taxes, weakened agriculture)
2) Disloyal military (allegiance to generals instead of Rome)
3) Political corruption (less interest in civic duty)
4) Growth of slavery (discouraged advances in farming)
5) Lack of patriotism (less willingness to sacrifice for Rome)
6) Invasions (Germanic tribes and others attack the empire)
1) Where was Constantinople located?
2) What did it become?
3) Name the main street running through the city. What did the word mean?
4) Name the 3 main attractions of Constantinople.
1) Between Europe and Southwest Asia
2) a thriving center of trade and business
3) Mese or "Middle Way"
4) Hagia Sophia,the Mese, the Hippodrome
What is considered Rome's most lasting and widespread contribution?
What 2 aspects did Rome's legal system stress?
What are 2 principals of Roman law?
What is its system of laws/representative government?
What is fairness and common sense?
What are equal treatment and presumption of innocence?