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Class Readings
100
This group influenced the rise of Rome the most.
Who are the Etruscans?
100
The two brothers who argued for land reform in Rome during the republican period.
Who are the Gracchus Brothers?
100
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said "I do not come to abolish the law of the prophets but to fulfill it." This is evidence of what?
What is that Jesus taught from a Jewish perspective or tradition?
100
This phenomenon eliminated 1/10 of the Roman population and led to trade and food production decline.
What is plague?
100
In this reading Jesus preached some of Christianity's ethics of behavior.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
200
Rome's form of government before the republic.
What is monarchy?
200
The first triumvirate.
Who is Pompey, Crassus, Caesar?
200
The leader of Jesus' apostles.
Who is Simon Peter?
200
Mercenaries were paid soldiers who fought for the Roman military. They were predominantly from this region.
What are Germanic states?
200
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said, "you cannot serve __________."
What is "two masters?"
300
Romans were shrewd diplomats by extending this to new conquered groups within the empire.
What are citizenship rights?
300
Caesar undertook this reform to help the poor.
What is increased public works spending/land reform/rent reform?
300
Paul spread Jesus' message to these places and these people.
What is Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea region and to Jews and Gentiles?
300
This group invaded Rome in the fifth century from the North after being pressured South by the Huns.
Who are the Visigoths?
300
In his play Julius Caesar, Shakespeare criticized the Roman people for being _____________.
What is fickle?
400
These officials would have been equivalent to a judicial branch.
Who are praetors?
400
This time period in Rome was over one hundred years of peace and prosperity.
What is the Pax Romana?
400
This emperor made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire after Constantine converted to Christianity a few years earlier.
Who is Theodosius the Great?
400
This city became the capitol of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople or Byzantium?
400
"The Destruction of Carthage" reading chronicles Rome's triumph in this war.
What is the Third Punic War?
500
This legislative body came into being as a result of the struggle between the two social orders in Rome.
What is the Council of the Plebs?
500
At its height the Roman Empire covered this many square miles.
What is half a million square miles?
500
Name three of the Jewish holidays that we discussed.
What are Passover, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah?
500
These were two reforms undertaken by Constantine and Diocletian to save the Roman Empire.
What is increased funding for the military and the civil service bureaucracy? These reforms drained the public funds.
500
In the Hebrew Law Code we saw evidence of ___________ which is similar to how societies functioned in many other ancient civilizations.
What is patriarchy?