ROME Flashcards
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235062099 | who founded rome? | romulus and Remus. Romulus eventually killed Remus | 0 | |
235062100 | Etruscans are noted for their: | art, sexual openess, ridged class system and slavery, gladiator style games, engineering and architechture | 1 | |
235062101 | for the first 200 of its first 250 years, Rome was basically a province of the ________ | Etruscans | 2 | |
235062102 | For the result of the rape and suicide of Lucretia, he Romans overthrew the Etruscan kings and established a... | Republic- representative government | 3 | |
235062103 | vidi vedi vici | i came, i saw, i conquered | 4 | |
235062104 | Caesar: | joined army at 18 and rose to rank of commander, captured spain, conquered Gaul, cross the robicon, defeated pompey, met cleopatra, named "Dictator Perpetuo" | 5 | |
235062105 | After Caesars death, Octavian and Marc Antony struggled for 12 years to determine who would take over. Who ended up being the first emperor? | Octavian, because Mark Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. | 6 | |
235062106 | Octavian changed his name to | Augustus | 7 | |
235062107 | First Roman Emperors: | Augustus,TIberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero | 8 | |
235062108 | Julius Caesar was never a dictator, he was a | dictator in a republic | 9 | |
235062109 | Pax Romana ment | period of extended calm in Roman Empire. no large scale war | 10 | |
235062110 | Palestine, where Jesus was born, was at the time a ________ province | Roman | 11 | |
235062111 | Paul, a follower, wrote several letters to varius groups which differentiated Christianity from Judaism and formed that basics of the _______________ | new testament of the Bible | 12 | |
235062112 | Early Christians in Rome were treated __________ | poorly | 13 | |
235062113 | Emperor Constantine ordered the Edict of Milan, which was... | mandated tolerance of Christianity. In 380 it became the official religion | 14 | |
235062114 | What did Diocletian do to make it easier to manage the Empire? | split it into 4 parts | 15 | |
235062115 | Constantine came to power and reconciled the Empire, when he died the empire was ______ | re split | 16 | |
235062116 | What is the eastern half of Rome called? | Constantinopal | 17 | |
235062117 | The western half of the Roman Empire was over run by outside invaders in mid-5th century. They brought little ____________ | culture. they destroyed some existing Roman culture | 18 | |
235062118 | The fall of Rome was the start of the ________________ ages | middle, dark | 19 | |
235062119 | The eastern half came to be known was what? | the Byzntine Empire | 20 | |
235062120 | Reasons for Romes fall: | bad emperors and political turmoil, declining infrastructure, overstretched military, "Moral decay" and Christianity, economic factors, disease and lead poisoning, environment | 21 |