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Roman Republic (Date)
Definition
509-31 BC
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Battle of Actium
Definition
31 BC
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Roman Empire
Definition
31 BC-476 AD
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Ocoacer Germanic Emperor of Rome
Definition
476 AD
Term
Period of Persecution (Date)
(Early Christian)
Definition
1st Century AD -313 AD
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Edict of Milan (Date)
(Early Christian)
Definition
313 AD (begins period of Recognition)
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Council of Nicea (Date)
(Early Christian)
Definition
325 AD
Term
Old St. Peter's Basilica - Early Christian (Date)
Definition
333AD
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Battle of Tours - Middle Ages (Date)
Definition
732 AD
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Charlemagne crowned Emperor of the Romans - Early Christian (Date)
Definition
800 Ad
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Treaty of Verdun - Early Christian (Date)
Definition
843 AD
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Etruscans
Definition
Precursors of the Romans
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Rome was founded in year.....when....happened
Definition
509BC when the king was overthrown
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The Romans had the very first ....(Type of Government)
Definition
Republic
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Constitution had three main divisions...
Definition
Two counsels: citizens and military, senate, assemblies: two classes
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Struggle of the Orders
Definition
Plebeians began to rise up convinced particians to write law code
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Law code was called...
Definition
Law of Twelve Tables "Happy Days", Plebs had lots of rights
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Punic Wars
Definition
Rome versus Carthage (North Africa)
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Cartharage means....in Phonecian
Definition
Punic
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The cause of the Punic Wars....
Definition
According to Virgils Aeneid the cause was Aeneas(Trojan) and Dido (Carthage)...After Troy was destroyed went to find a new city falls in love, has an affair, Dido threatens the people
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The Real cause of the Punic Wars
Definition
was Trade from East to West
Term
Three wars did what to rome economically
Definition
Changed economic course....Went from an Agrarian Economy to a Welfare State
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Hannibal's Legacy
Definition
Changing the course of Rome
Term
Latfundia
Definition
Commericial farms worked by slaves from Hanniblas army, there was lots of land because soliders who owned land couoldn't keep it while fighting
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Land Reform
Definition
Asking for Farmers land back
Term
Both assisnated by promoting Land Reform
Definition
Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus
Term
Civil Wars
Definition
Romans fighting Romans
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Marius
Definition
Abolished Land requirment, Payed salary for those who fought with him, and soliders were allowed to keep the land that they conquered, TOOK OVER ROME
Term
Sulla
Definition
HAd a personal army, a list of people that needed to be assisnated, called himself a dictator
Term
First Triumvirate...what?...who?
Definition
Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar, ...three men sharing power
Term
Julius Caesar
Definition
Dictator of Rome, the other two died, and were being cowards! Reformed Roman Calendar, ASSISNATED
Term
2nd Triumvirate
Definition
Antony, Ledpidus, Octavain
Term
Octavian defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra...
Definition
Battle of Actium, they committed suicide..., End of last Hellenistic Kingdom, End of Roman Republic, Octavian = Augustus
Term
PAX ROmana
Definition
ROman Peace
Term
Augustus
Definition
Princeps - first among equals, Imperator - victorious commander, Pontifex Maximus - Cheif Priest, Imperium - GODS selected him....
HEAD OF STATE AND RELIGION
Term
Augustan Hero
Definition
Father's tell their sons to be like Augustus
Term
Pietas
Definition
Duty to the state, duty to family...Everything you do is for the GLORY OF ROME
Term
The Roman Task
Definition
Gods said to beirng order through gov, law, etc
Term
Augustas of Primaporta
Definition
Armor, Symbolism, Venus, Pointing. etc. etc.
Term
Res Gestae
Definition
Talks about accomplishments that Augustus did for Rome, copies in Marble and Bronze all over room
Term
Imperial Rome
Definition
politics, law, economics, religion as reflected in its monuments
Term
Imperial Forums
Definition
Julius Caesar (Temple of Venus)
Augustus (Temple of Mars)
Term
Forum of Peace
Definition
children are the future, wife, family, ....passed law you have to marry a wife that could have kids,
Term
Forum of Trajan
Definition
look at pictures in notes!
Term
Romanization and Urbanization benefits
Definition
Food distribution, cities, sanitization, police, fire departments, water
Term
The Roman roads were built by who
Definition
The soliders
Term
Via Sacra (Road)
Harbor Street (Ephesus)
Definition
sacred road, leads to the roman forum
In asia minor, elegant, lined with colums
Term
Streets in Pompeii
Definition
sidewalks, stepping stones so you wouldn't have to walk in the shit, roads were very straight and orderly
Term
Aqueducts
Definition
used to bring water into the city, Pont du Gard, Nimes
Term
Bridges
Definition
Pons Aelius, Rome
Term
Sanitation....
Definition
Cloaca Maxima, Rome - drained marshes to get ride of Malaria
Term
There were also ........facilities
Definition
Harbor
Term
City Planning...they used the right angle method
Definition
Castrum Plan
Term
Palace of Diocletian
Definition
They would model the palace after the Roman army camp, castrum plan
Term
Paterfamilias
Definition
father of the family
Term
Importance of Ancestors
Definition
They were scupted and waxed and placed in the family room
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Gravitas
Definition
Serious. The people were serious, simple and direct...NO STORIES
Term
Simplicitas
Definition
Straight forward
Term
Virtus
Definition
Manly, they would kill every ten man in an army
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Pietas
Definition
Good of the state over Personal desire
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Insulae
Definition
Apartment buildings where poor lived, no cooking, no bathrooms, no toilets, no running water
Term
Baths of Caracalla
Definition
Bath complexes, caldarium - hot room, tepidarium - room temp, frigidarium- cold room,
Term
Juvenal
Definition
One in three days there were a holiday, people had too much time on their hands!
Term
Bread and Circuses
Definition
Avoid uprising, keeping people feed and entertained
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Colloseum
Definition
Flavian Ampitheater, built by Vespasian, Flavian Dynasty
Term
Wealthy lived in ROman Villas
Definition
focused away from the stresst, centered around atrium (room with pool), wealthy also had gardens (peristyle)
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Roman Religion
Definition
Polytheistic, when Christianity came about they weren't threatened by it, because they thought it was just another mystery religion
Term
Jesus of Naraeth
Definition
Jesus was born in Judea, came to Rome, word Spread quickly and then Christians began to be persecuted...brought them closer together
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Paul of Tarsus
Definition
Christians worshipped in secret, in the Atrium of their house
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Catacombs
Definition
cremation vs. inhumation (burying). THis is where the Christians buried the bodies underneath the city
Term
Tufa, Loculi, and Cubiculae
Definition
Little private family burial areas - Cubiculae, tufa - volcanic rock, loculi - crevases where bodies where placed,
Term
Christ as the Good Shepard
Definition
Fresco
Term
Christ as Apollo/Christ as the Unconquered Sun
Definition
Adapting what they knew to the new religion,
Term
Empire Constantine
Definition
First to Legalize Christianity
Term
Battle of Milvian Bridge
Definition
went to battle saying that he would legalize Christianity if he won, and HE WON
Term
Edict of Milan
Definition
Paganism was state religion, but Christians could practice religion
Term
Council of Nicea Athanasius vs. Arius
Definition
Arius - said Christ was created by god so he was less than god
Athanasius - said that Christ was equal to god, so he was divine

ATHANASIUS WON!
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Emperor Theodosius
Definition
Made Christianity the state religion
Term
Christian Art and Architecture
Definition
Old St. Peter's Basilica,
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Santa Costanza, Rome
Definition
Mausoleum for Constantine's daughter, burial place, circular shape to symbol of jesus being the beginning and end
Term
Good Shepherd Sarcophagus
Definition
Coffins..
Term
St. Michael the Archangel: otherworldliness, dematerialization
Definition
focusing on the spiritual aspect not the perfect body, angels - roman symbol of victory
Term
Sarcophagus of Archbishop Theodore: Chrismon (chi rho), alpha and omega
Definition
Peacocks: Symbol of eternity, grapevines, symbol of the blood of christ, alpha and omega, showing that CHrist is that beginning and end, first and last letters!
Term
Theory of Petrin SUpremacy: ROme and PAPal Authority (Papa = Pope)
Definition
Peter was supreme in Christianity
Term
Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire
Definition
Emperor Diocletian, Division of the Roman Empire....To keep the Roman Empire
Two Capitals Byzantine and Rome
Term
Tetrarchy
Definition
administering the sections of rome
Term
Germanic tribes overran the Western Empire, Goths sacked Rome
Definition
Germany Tribes take over, German Ruler takes over
Term
Emperor Constantine
Definition
Changed the name of Byzantium to COntantinople in now called (Istanbul)
Term
Western Capital was moved to where by who?
Definition
By Emperor HOnorius to Italy
Term
Byzantine Empire
Definition
Eastern ROman Empire
Term
Byzantine Art and Architecture
Definition
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna - She is the daughter of Theodocius
Term
Churches in Ravenna
Definition
Christian CHurches, christ represented as a cross, god as a hand
Term
Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora
Definition
Jusinian expaned Byzantine Empire, reclaimed much of the West, JUSTINIAN's LAW CODE
Term
Early Middle Ages what happens?
Definition
People from the North move to the South
Climate Change
Unable to maintain borders
Term
Invasions or Migrations
Definition
Huns, Bisigoths, Osthrogoths, Vandals (destruction), Vikings (ships)
Term
Fall of Strong Central Government and a decline in living
Definition
decline in minted coins, trade, communication, roads, cities, housing
Term
Because of this...
Definition
people flee cities and they don't take highways so things will not get stolen...
little monumental art or architecture (only valualbe portable art)
Term
Interlace
Definition
pattern that goes around in a circle, represents migration
Term
Cloisonne
Definition
Type of art form, example hair pins
Term
Migration style houses
Definition
Up and down quickly, no privacy, low life expectancy, knowledge was lost, animals used to help heat the house
3 GALLONS of BEER a Day
Term
Montasticism
Definition
Benedictine Rule - asceticism, giving up pleasures in Earthly life for Heaven, vows of poverty, chastity, obedience
Term
IMprovements to writing
Definition
minuscules - lowercase letters
spaces
left to right
Illuminated manuscripts
Books! (velum parchment)
Term
Who preserved the literature
Definition
Islamic people
Term
Settling of Germanic Tribes led to
Definition
Charlemagne and the Caroligian Renaissance
Term
Charlemagne and the Caroligian Renaissance
Definition
Europe: rise of aristocracy, aristocracy warfare, and competition among rival states
Term
Charles Martel (The Hammer)
Definition
Frankish, devot Christian, supported Pope at Rome (Papacy), Gained support of Pope, Church and State, Defeated Muslim at Tours Battle
Term
Pepin (The Short)
Definition
Charles son, King of the Franks, By Pope's representative
Term
Charlemagne
Definition
"Charles the Great" Pepin's Son, expanded Carolingian empire, crowned by the Pope to be Emperor of the Romans
Term
Charlemagne assigned counts and missi dominici
Definition
counts - were in charge of certain areas, and missi dominici were supposed to watch over counts
Term
Charlemagne wanted to help ....Rome
Definition
REVIVE under Christianity
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Lious the Pious
Definition
had three sons, battle of sons who would get inheritance
Term
Divided the kingdom into three areas
Definition
Treaty of Verdun
Term
Lathair I
Louis the German
Charles the Bald
Definition
North Sea to Central Italy
Germany
France
Term
Technology
Definition
no slavery...so they have to make advancements, three field system, improved yokes and plows
Term
Feudalism
Definition
King --> Lord --> Vassals
Term
Lords
Definition
inherited, offered military protection, tracts of land
Term
Vassals
Definition
Worked for lord, courts, ransoms, hospitality, gifts, etc.
Term
Feudum
Definition
Germanic for property
Term
Serfs
Definition
people who worked the land and got to keep some of the land in the end, made a lot of technological advancements
Term
Manorialism
Definition
economica arrangement on land, manor houses (Lords), Castles (defense)
Lords and Ladies, women had a higher position
Term
Knights
Definition
kept order, but when they were unemployed that led to the Crusades (fighting eachother), Pope decided to keep them busy by tring to free the Holy Land from the Muslims
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