Rome Flashcards

Roman people, events, places, and vocab

102295650	Augustus	organized the Praetorian Guard	0
102295651	Galen	a physician who wrote about medicine	1
102295652	Ptolemy	an astronomer who believed that Earth was the center of the universe	2
102295653	Virgil	the greatest Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid	3
102295654	Horace	poet who wrote about human emotions	4
102295655	Ovid	peot who wrote love lyrics and Metamorphoses	5
102295656	Tacitus	one of the greatest historians who wrote Annals	6
102295657	Plutarch	wrote Parallel Lines (includes a series of bibliographical sketches)	7
102295658	Diocletian	reorganized the government [co-emperors (augustuses), assistants (caesars)], drove out invading empires	8
102295659	Constantine	defended Christian religion and created a new capital city, Constantinople (used to be Byzantium)	9
102295660	Theodisius	last ruler of a unified empire, supported Christianity	10
102295661	Huns	tribe that threatened the empire	11
102295662	Romulus Augustus	overthrown by Barbarian commander	12
102295663	Pax Romana	a time of peace in Rome in which trade, manufacturing, and transportation increased	13
102295664	400 A.D.	Roman empire splits	14
102295665	East	the part of the Roman Empire that hrived after the split	15
102295666	West	The part of the Roman Empire that fell after the split	16
102295667	Constantinople	new capital made by Constantine	17
102295668	Inflation	rise in prices caused by the decrease in the value of the exchange	18
102295669	Collegia	workers' trade association who were required to stay at their jobs and do comunity service	19
102295670	Twelve Tables	Government passed new laws and judges created new ones	20