Chapter 11 Vocab

Question 1

Cicero

Answer 1

Some Romans tried to stop the chaos in Rome’s government. One such person was a philosopher, and gifted orator, or public speaker. He gave speeches, on upper-class Roman to work together to make Rome a better place.

Question 2

Julius Caesar

Answer 2

Several generals were working to take over the government. The most powerful of these generals was named?

Question 3

Pompey

Answer 3

Caesar also had powerful friends. Before he went to Gaul, he made an alliance with two of Rome’s most influential men, Crassus and this person…. Together the three ruled Rome.

Question 4

Augustus

Answer 4

One of Caesar’s assistant was his adopted son Octavian later called….

Question 5

Currency

Answer 5

Or money.

Question 6

Pax Romana

Answer 6

Or Roman peace.

Question 7

Aqueduct

Answer 7

is a raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities.

Question 8

Romance Languages

Answer 8

They include Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Question 9

Civil Law

Answer 9

is a legal system based on a written code of laws.

Question 10

Christianity

Answer 10

This religion was based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

Question 11

Jesus of Nazareth

Answer 11

Christianity is the religion based on the life and teachings of this person.

Question 12

Bible

Answer 12

Some of Jesus’s disciples wrote accounts of his life and teachings. These accounts are called the Gospels. Four Gospels are found in the New Testament of the Bible.

Question 13

Crucifixion

Answer 13

a type of execution in which a person was nailed to a cross.

Question 14

Resurrection

Answer 14

Jesus’s rise from the dead

Question 15

Disciples

Answer 15

or followers.

Question 16

Paul

Answer 16

Probably the most important figure in the spread of Christianity after Jesus’s death was named Paul of Tarsus.

Question 17

Constantine

Answer 17

In the early 300s he became a Christian. He removed bans on religion.

Question 18

Diocletian

Answer 18

Became emperor in the late 200s Convinced that the empire was too big for one person to rule so he ruled the eastern half and his co-emperor ruled the west.

Question 19

Attila

Answer 19

The Huns, fearsome leader. He raided Roman territory in the east.

Question 20

Corruption

Answer 20

The decay of people’s values

Question 21

Justinian

Answer 21

An emperor who ruled from 527 to 565.His passions were reuniting Old Roman Empire, other passions were the law and church.

Question 22

Theodora

Answer 22

Justinian’s wife. Smart and powerful, convinced her husband to stay and fight.

Question 23

Byzantine Empire

Answer 23

Historians named the society that developed in the Eastern Roman Empire this….