Vocabulary Terms
The Roman invention that enabled to build larger structures.
What is concrete?
Who was Augustus?
A time of peace and prosperity with as many as 65 million people living in relative peace.
What is the Pax Romana?
These are places where where people of different cultures meet and exchange products, ideas, and technologies.
What is site of encounter?
What is to feed Rome's growing population?
A work of literature that makes fun of or mocks its subject.
What is satire?
This individual dissected animals and discovered that arteries and veins carry blood.
Who was Galen?
The speaking of Latin would change into these new, local languages.
What are the Romance languages?
The poet, Virgil, was famous for this.
What is his epic poem, the Aeneid?
This was the ability to move water over land.
What are aqueducts?
A general increase in the price of goods.
What is inflation?
This individual was responsible for dividing the Roman Empire into two halves and choosing a co-emperor to help him manage the empire.
Who was Diocletian?
During the time between 235 to 284, Rome was torn apart by civil wars.
What is the Imperial Crisis?
Who was Cicero?
This came about when the military built roads and founded colonies. And when the government allowed more people to become Roman citizens.
What is the spreading of Greco-Roman culture?
A series of overland trade routes that connect Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This was the last Roman emperor who had kept the empire strong and united for many years.
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
The early Roman emperors believed that had to win over the people and senate and the later emperors believed in this.
What is that they cared less about the people and focused more on the military?
What are the gladiatorial games?
They were considered savage and do not share in the customs of the Romans or Greeks.
Who were barbarians?
The racecourse that could seat as many as 270,000 people.
What is the Circus Maximus?
This Roman emperor was responsible for making Christianity the official Roman religion.
Who was Theodosius?
This happened in 476 and this happened about 1,000 years later.
What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire and then the end of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire?
Law codes that relate to family relationships, property, and other issues.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This is the name of a city in Turkey that would replace Byzantium later on.
What is Constantinople?