Roman Leaders
He was the first emperor of Rome and began the Pax Romana.
Who is Augustus?
The long era of peace that lasted about 200 years in Rome.
What is the Pax Romana?
These structures carried water into the city of Rome.
What are aqueducts?
The Romans worshiped many of these.
What are gods and goddesses?
These emperors spent much of their time putting down revolts and guarding borders.
Who were the Severans?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
The two main churches after the Great Schism.
What are the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
This emperor began construction on the Colosseum.
Who is Vespasian?
The Romans were the first people to invent this building material that made building stronger.
What is concrete?
He studied anatomy and wrote about medicine.
Who is Galen?
Romans honored their gods at home using these.
What are household shrines or altars?
What is inflation?
Economic problem where prices increased and money lost value.
Constantinople was located between these two bodies of water.
What are the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea?
The Eastern Church was led by this religious leader.
Who is the Patriarch of Constantinople?
These four emperors made up the Julio-Claudian emperors.
Who are Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero?
This large stadium in Rome could seat about 50,000 people, where they would host gladiator fights, naval battle reenactments, and public executions.
What is the Colosseum?
Roman plays were often based on Greek _________ and ___________.
Comedies and tragedies
This religion was once persecuted but became Rome’s official religion.
What is Christianity?
Who are the Germanic tribes?
Visigoths, Goths, Franks, Vandals, Angles, Saxons, etc.
Who is Justinian?
This emperor ruled the Byzantine Empire and created a new law code.
The official split between the churches is called this.
What is the Great Schism?
This emperor moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople.
Who is Constantine?
A temple built for all the Roman gods, famous for its dome roof.
What is the Pantheon?
What is an ode?
A poem that expresses strong feelings or emotions.
Who is Constantine?
This emperor made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire.
The Eastern Roman Empire survived and became known as this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
She was Justinian’s wife and gave women more rights.
Who is Theodora?
Romans influenced today’s government with the idea that all people are _______ under law.
What is equal (innocent until proven guilty)?
He divided the empire to make it easier to rule and tried to fix prices and wages.
Who is Diocletian?
Roman art was different from Greek art because it was more ________.
What is realistic?
About how many aqueducts once brought water into Rome?
What is eleven (11)?
Stoic philosophers taught Romans to do this in public life.
What is fulfill one’s duty and be self-controlled?
Who is Odoacer?
This leader overthrew the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus AND/OR split the Roman Empire into 2 parts.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The Great Church built under Justinian’s reign.
Latin influenced these modern languages.
What are Spanish, French, Italian, and English?