Roman Law and Government
This set of laws was written for Roman citizens to learn and applied equally to everyone.
12 Tablets
Roman engineering achievement that connected the far reaches of the empire and safely moved troops and goods.
Roman roads
This problem developed as Roman Empire expanded, since new territories became too far away to report issues back to the capital.
Empire grew too large to control
Constantine named this new capital city after himself in 330 CE.
Constantinople
This vocabulary word means "to fall apart or fail completely"
What happened to the Western Roman Empire.
Collapse
This legal principle, still used in courts today, means a person isn't considered guilty until proven so.
Innocent until proven guilty
What is my favorite soccer team?
Chivas
This emperor decided Rome had grown too large to manage and split it into an Eastern and Western half.
Diocletian
This narrow waterway that Constantinople sat on brought huge trade wealth and made the city easy to defend. Enabled Byzantine Empire to trade in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Bosporus Strait
Who protected the Roman roads?
Roman soldiers
Roman law and rights (voting, serving in military, owning property) applied across the whole empire and defined who could hold this status.
Citizenship (a Roman citizen)
This structure carried water from distant sources into Roman cities.
Aqueduct
Diocletian personally ruled this half of the newly divided empire.
Eastern Empire
This is the name historians use for the Eastern Roman Empire after Rome fell
Byzantine Empire
This word describes dishonest behavior by people in power, like politicians taking bribes.
Corrupt
In just 50 years, Rome cycled through how many different emperors
22
Architectural feature that let Romans build taller structures and construct bridges.
Arches
Rome hired this group of outsiders to defend the empire, but eventually could no longer pay them.
Goths
The Byzantine Empire outlasted the fall of Rome by roughly this many years before finally ending in 1453 CE.
1,000 years
This word means to enter a place by force with hostile intent, like the Goths did to Roman territory.
Invade
Why did emperors have to start paying their soldiers much higher wages?
What is to keep the soldiers' loyalty/support?
What Romans called those who were not Roman citizens and did not speak Latin
Barbarians
After Rome's government collapsed, powerful landowners took control and citizens worked their land in exchange for protection, a system known as this.
Feudalism
This Byzantine emperor made the legal system more efficient and kept Roman architectural style alive in grand buildings.
Justinian
This event split Christianity into the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the East.
Great Schism