Emperors
Along with Crassus and Pompey, he made up the first Triumvirate, was eventually made dictator of Rome, and then eventually assassinated by a group of leading senators because of his plans for remaining dictator.
Who is Julius Caesar.
A government by three people with equal power.
What is Triumvirate
This social class of people were the wealthy landowners who became Rome's ruling class.
Who are the patricians.
He was the first Christian emperor.
Who is Constantine?
Government officials who carried out Emperor Leo's orders to remove all icons from churches
Who are iconoclasts?
Along with Antony and Lepidus he made up the second Triumvirate, was Caesar's nephew, and was named the first emperor of Rome.
Who is Augustus
The Justinian Code has been the basis for this in many countries.
What are their legal systems?
This social class was made up of less wealthy landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers.
Who are the Plebeians.
Proclaimed official tolerance of Christianity
What is Edict of Milan?
The capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
He believed Rome was too large for a single ruler and along with Constantine enhanced the army and civil service institution that drained most of the public funds.
Who is Diocletian?
The Romans fought these three wars with Carthage.
What are The Punic Wars?
The Visigoths warred with this invading tribe
Who are the Huns?
The Byzantine missionary who developed an alphabet that allowed the Byzantines to bring their religion and culture to the Slavs
Who is Cyril?
This happened after the Jews rebelled against the Romans in 132 C.E.
What is Jews were banned from Jerusalem?
This ruler was was blamed for starting a fire that burned most of Rome. He in return tried to blame the Christians for starting the fire.
Who is Nero?
This Roman political group was made up of a select group of about 300 patricians who served for life.
What is the Roman Senate.
After the Franks successfully defended Italy against invaders, the pope crowned this Frankish king emperor in 800 C.E.
Who was Charlemagne?
According to Christian tradition, he helped set up a Christian church in Rome after the death of Jesus as the first pope.
Who is Peter, a Jewish fisher from Galilee?
Culture that Byzantine civilization was mainly derived from.
What is a blend of several cultures
Rome's second body of laws that was based on reason that allowed them to establish standards of justice that applied to all people and eventually was one of Rome's gifts to later generations.
What is the Law of Nations
In 410 C.E. this Visigoth leader captured the city of Rome.
Who is Alaric?
He was deposed by Germanic Head of the army, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
List of regulations followed in Eastern Orthodox monasteries and convents
What are the Basilian Rule?