The First Christians
Who are the Pharisees?
A name given to an empire which is ruled by four.
What is a tetrarchy?
What are Germanic tribes establishing independent kingdoms in Rome?
The first pope.
What is monasticism?
The group of Jews who lived in isolation and were considered hyper-spiritual.
Who are the Essenes?
After splitting the empire, the western capital was ____ and the eastern was ____.
What is Rome and Constantinople?
Which group revolted against and defeated the Romans in 378?
Who were the Visigoths?
The pope who strengthened the power of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great)?
Who wrote the 12 Steps to Humility?
Who is St. Benedict?
An early symbol of Christianity, made up of two combined Greek letters.
What is the Chi-Rho?
Strict wage and price controls were enforced for this reason.
What is inflation?
This group displaced the Visigoths, resulting in Visigoth movement into Rome.
Who were the Huns?
The vows of a Benedictine Monk.
The reason the monastic movement grew in popularity.
What is worldliness in the church?
The Roman emperor who led the last great persecution on Christians, but realized they could not get rid of them all.
Who is Diocletian?
Military expansions during their reigns.
What are the frontier units, mobile units, increasing army to 500K, and German units?
When was the end of the Western Roman Empire?
When is 476?
What is idleness?
Some of the ways Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great) increased the power of the church and supported the people of Rome.
Funding soldiers, directing diplomacy, preventing Rome from being sacked (twice), repairing aqueducts, ransomed hostages, supported refugees, helped absolve the famine by bringing in grain supply.
The document that legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
The name given to each of the four sections the Roman Empire had been divided into.
What is a prefecture?
Name three theories as to the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
Christianity weakened military virtues, Roman values declined as barbarians gained prominence, lead poisoning in water pipes = mental decline, Slavery held back technological advances, Plague wiped out 10% of population, Could not create workable political system
The types of manuscripts monks copied in their scriptoriums.
What are Latin classics and the Bible.
The primary ways nuns worked for the growth of the church.
What are providing books and money for missionaries and establishing abbesses in newly converted lands?