Vocabulary
A person who fought people and animals for public entertainment.
Who is a Gladiator?
Politicians did this to make people like them.
What is offer free food and entertainment?
This capital was called the "New Rome."
What is Constantinople.
Rome's decline started in this hundred year span.
What is the A.D. 200s?
This language influenced how we speak.
What is Latin?
Writing that pokes fun at human weakness.
What is a satire?
Two activities Roman women could do that poorer women could not.
What is own land, hire enslaved people, study, and go out for entertainment? (Have at least two of these)
Justinian knew the empire had once been much larger. He wanted his army strong so they could do this.
What is take back the western lands that had once been part of the empire?
(These conquests didn't last long, a plague moved through Asia and Europe. After Justinian died, the empire again lost control over most of the western lands.)
The peace of the Pax Romana was followed by a century of this type of violence that led to great suffering.
What is civil war? (This was a period of great suffering causing food shortages, high prices, decreased support for education, and unpaid taxes.)
These Roman ideas (name three) still influence our lives in the United States today.
What is literature, architecture, law, government, language, construction, and religion? (Any three)
Poem that expresses strong emotions about life.
What is an Ode?
The Roman family was the ______ of the Roman social structure.
What is heart?
Visigoths wanted Roman land, considered better land to do these activities.
What is raising crops and farm animals?
Diocletian tried to improve Rome's economy by setting these for food and wages.
What is prices?
The Byzantine achievements from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1200 included passing on Greek Culture and Roman laws to other peoples, and this religion.
What is Christianity?
Political changes to bring about improvement.
What is reforms?
Satires were different from odes in this way.
The emperor Constantine did this split with the Roman empire.
What is split the empire into two, the eastern and the western empire?
This emperor moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium in the east and named it Constantinople.
Who is Constantine?
Empress Theodora was married to Emperor Justinian. She had incredible influence on this group of people in Rome, which brought their reforms and rights.
Who are women? (They could now own land, and widowed women could work outside the home to earn money to take care of children.)
What is inflation? (We can't just make more money without the prices of everything going up.)
Engineers changed the lives throughout the empire by doing these infrastructure improvements.
What is build bridges, roads, and buildings?
There were many advantages to Constantinople's location. Name two of these advantages.
What is
1. fishing boats, trading ships, and warships could use the harbor?
2. the seas around it made it easy to defend?
3. Two major trades routes crossed through it?
A.D. 476 is an important date because of this event.
What is the year the Western Roman empire fell, never to be ruled again by an emperor.
One of the most important things Justinian did was in the area of law. The Justinian Code, as it is called, did what for the people.
What is made the laws easier for people to understand and follow.