1. Cato was born a plebian.
2. He was elected to Rome's Highest offices.
3. He created his image as a bearer of "traditional" Roman values.
4. Cato was a paterfamilias, the oldest male head of the family.

1. Written by Augustine.
2. City of god represents Heaven.
3. City of God has 22 books.
4. City of God is about Christian philosophy.

1. Constantine made Christianity officialy legal.
2. He was also baptized as a Christian.
3. Constantine declared Sunday a public holiday, a day of rest for the service of God.
4. Constantine supported the church throughout his reign.

1. First Italian cities were formed by Etruscans.
2. Etruscans had fertile lands that could support large populations.
3. New developing Rome came under the rule of Etruscan king.
4. Roman's adopted the Etruscan alphabet.

1. Latifundia is a large estate.
2. The rich bought the farms to build the estates from veterans.
3. Mostly slaves worked on latifundia.
4. Some free men worked on the latifundia but the labor was low due to slaves working on the land.

1. The law code was organized under emporer Justinian.
2. Justiinian appointed a committee of eminent jurists to sort and organize the law.
3. The laws were devided into three sections the Code, the Digest, and the Institutes.
4. THe code was written in Latin.

1. Sacred book of Islam
2. Qur'an translates as "prayer Recitation"
3. Qur'an is regarded by Muslims as the direct word of God to his prophet Muhammad.
4. Qur'an preaches of a single god.

1. Elected to the tribune of the people.
2. Proposed public land be given to the poor in small lots.
3. The senate did not approve of his ways, helping the poor.
4. Large group of senators killed him in cold blood.
5. His death was the begining of political violence. 

Roman Literature

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1. Poets wrote about dignity of human life and range of its accomplishments.
2. Their works were highly polished and eligent in style.
3. Rome's greatest poet was Virgil.
4. Rome was in the golden age of literature during Augustan's rule.

1. It was a guide for a way of life for monks, nuns, people living under relligious vows.
2. It influenced all forms of organized religious life in the western Christian church.
3. It outlined a simple life of regulatrity, discipline, and moderation in an atmosphere of silence.
4. monks spent part of the day in formal prayer, Benedict called it Opus Dei "work of god"

1. Coppied Hannibal's method of mobile warfare.
2. He attacked Carthage to recall Hannibal from Italy.
3. Scipio defeated Hannibal.
4. Scipio's victory over Hannibal meat Western Mediterranean would become Roman.

1. They are branches of Islam
2. They have pretty much the same spiritual believes.
3. They began to fight over political strife.
4. Sometimes fights have erupted into great violence.

1. He was a lawyer.
2. The people demanded he become a Bishop.
3. The life of a Bishop was dangerous, it took some convincing to get him to become a bishop.
4. with his background in law he faught against heresy and independence of the church and state.

1. He was converted from Judaism.
2. He was a Roman Citizen.
3. He opened churches in Asia Minor and Europe.
4. He was imprisoned in Rome and beheaded.

1. He was a strong Roman General.
2. He proclaimed himself dictator.
3. He increased the number of magistrates to better administer Rome's provinces.
4. He voluntarily abdicated his dictatorship.

1. Rome's greatest poet.
2. He wrote about simple pleasures of life.
3. Virgil's masterpiece is the Aenid.
4. The aenid was similar to the Greek Iliad and Odyssey.