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World History CH. 5
The Roman Empire
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History
9th Grade
10/29/2015

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Pax Romana
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Roman Peace
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Princeps
Definition
First Citizen
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Cicero
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The Leading Political figure, also outstanding  scholar, author, lawyer, and statesmen.
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Virgil
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Greatest Roman Poet The "Homer of Rome"
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Horace
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"Poet of the Augustan Age"
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Ovid
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Poet of Love and Mythology, wrote the poem Metamorphoses
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Livy
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a historian 59 BC - AD 17
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Juvinal
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a Poet wrote about bitter satires, loose morals, and social problems
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Tacitus
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Famed Historian, favored life under the self-centered emperors
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Galen
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Greek Physician, became the accepted authority of the Middle Ages
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Ptolemy
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a Mathematician, promoted the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe.
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Geocentric Theory
Definition
Earth Centered Universe
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Aqueducts
Definition
water suppy, up to 50,000,000 gallons of water daily
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Epicurean Philosophy
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True Happiness comes only as a man frees his mind from fear and his body from pain.
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Lucretius
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Greatest expounder of Epicureanism in the Roman world. Wrote the poem On the Nature of Things
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Seneca
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One of the leading Stotics of the Roman Empire, Tutor of Emperor Nero
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Stoticism
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teaches that the higest good is the pursuit of the virtues of courage, dignity, duty, simplicity of life, and service of fellow men.
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Marcus Aurelius
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scholar, Philosopher, administrator, and last of the so-called Good Emperors of Rome
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Pontifex Maximus
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"Greatest Priest"
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Synagogue
Definition
center of worship for the Jews
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Septuagint
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The Hebrew to Greek translation
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Pontius Pilate
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Senetenced Jesus to crucifixion even though he didnot find any fauld in Him. Pilate was a govener
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Tiberius
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Roman Emperor
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Crucifixion
Definition
death on a cross
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Gospel
Definition
The Good News
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Stephen
Definition
The first Christian Maartyr
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Paul
Definition
Originally Named Saul, Persecutor of the christian church then became an advocate for christians
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Nero
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Emperor who burned down Rome and blamed it on the Christians
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Dioceletian
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Emperor, Dismissed Christian Soliders and distroyed Christian Churces
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Edict of Milan
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Most significant event in Christian Religion
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Constantine
Definition
made christianity legal
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Arius
Definition
Challenged the deity og Christ
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Council of Nicaea
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Affirmed Christ's deity and the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Theodosius 1
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declaired Christianity the offical and exclusive religion of the Roman state
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Monasticism
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Beliefe in only 1 God
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Huns
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New threat from the Far east
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Visigoths
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a Germanic tribe that setteled in the Eastern Roman Empire. Sacked Rome and won the battle of Adrianople
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Attila
Definition
Huns Fierce leader
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Alaric
Definition
leader of the visigoths in 410
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vandals
Definition

a germantic tribe

"destroyers of property"

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