6th - SS Chapter 13 Notes

Question 0

What is a ruler of the Roman Empire called?

Answer 0

Emperor

Question 1

After the fall of the Roman Republic, what did Rome become?

Answer 1

An Empire

Question 2

How longer did emperors rule the Roman Empire?

Answer 2

500 years

Question 3

Who was the first emperor?

Answer 3

Augustus

Question 4

Name some of Augustus’ accomplishments.

Answer 4

1. Brought order, stability and peace to Rome
2. Started a fire and police departments
3. Trade and business grew
4. New land
5. Army became most powerful in the world

Question 5

What was the long period (200 years) of peace and prosperity called?

Answer 5

Pax Romana

Question 6

Who became emperor when Augustus died?

Answer 6

Tiberius, Augutus’ stepson

Question 7

Who become emperor in 37AD, he was cruel and declared himself a god?

Answer 7

Caligula

Question 8

How did Caligula die?

Answer 8

In 47AD, his bodyguards murdered him.

Question 9

Who was emperor after Caligula?

Answer 9

Claudius, he was a better ruler

Question 10

Who followed Claudius as emperor?

Answer 10

Nero, he was a s bad as Caligula. He murdered his family.

Question 11

After Nero’s death, for the next 84 years who ruled?

Answer 11

The Five Good Emperors

Question 12

Most trade was done by _________, rather than land because it was ________.

Answer 12

Sea, safer

Question 13

Who sold crops to Rome?

Answer 13

Provincial farmers

Question 14

Why did Rome build roads throughout their empire?

Answer 14

So that soldiers could march quickly from place to place

Question 15

Roman engineers also built sturdy bridges supported by what?

Answer 15

Arches

Question 16

As the Roman army moved across the Greek empire, they adopted Greek cultural practices and spread their own. What was this combined culture called?

Answer 16

Greco-Roman

Question 17

The Roman Empire was huge. There were many different people who had different what?

Answer 17

Languages and religions

Question 18

What did many conquered people become?

Answer 18

Citizens

Question 19

The Roman army defended Rome with the help of what?

Answer 19

The vast roads built throughout the empire

Question 20

What did the Roman Empire develop that is a model of many nations today?

Answer 20

Code of Law

Question 21

Before 500BC, Rome law was based on what?

Answer 21

Customs and traditions

Question 22

What is the legal system of the state of Louisiana based on and why?

Answer 22

On Roman civil law because it was once a French colony

Question 23

Romans enjoyed watching battles as sport. What is the most famous arena these battles were fought in?

Answer 23

The Colosseum in Rome

Question 24

The most popular of these sporting battles where what happened?

Answer 24

Gladiators fought to the death.

Question 25

Romans enjoyed large scale public entertainments so what did they develop?

Answer 25

Amphitheater

Question 26

Romans were great builders. Name some examples.

Answer 26

Aqueducts and amphitheaters

Question 27

What language was spoken by many people in the Roman Empire?

Answer 27

Latin

Question 28

What is the bases of many European, or romance, languages including Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese?

Answer 28

Latin

Question 29

The Roman Empire were great in which areas?

Answer 29

Writers and science

Question 30

Who was the first to discover that arteries and veins carry blood?

Answer 30

Claudius Galen, a physician

Question 31

Which famous Roman poet wrote a collection of poems called Odes?

Answer 31

Horace

Question 32

By the time of Caesar Augustus, the Jews of Judea did what?

Answer 32

Rebelled against the Romans

Question 33

In which Roman province was Jesus born in?

Answer 33

Palestine, in present day Jordan, Israel

Question 34

Most of what we know about Jesus comes from early Christian writings known as what?

Answer 34

The books of the New Testament known as gospels

Question 35

According to the Gospels, Jesus was a descendant of whom?

Answer 35

The great Jewish King, David

Question 36

Where did Jesus teach the Hebrew Scriptures?

Answer 36

Synagogues

Question 37

What were the people who followed Jesus called?

Answer 37

Apostles

Question 38

After the resurrection, more than any other event, who did the followers think that Jesus was?

Answer 38

The Messiah

Question 39

Much of what Jesus taught came from where?

Answer 39

His Jewish upbringing

Question 40

Romans and Greeks believed in many gods, but Jesus taught that there is what?

Answer 40

Only one God

Question 41

Jesus also taught people to follow what? If they did this they would go to where?

Answer 41

The Ten Commandments; heaven

Question 42

What are the three central beliefs of Christianity?

Answer 42

1. Jesus is the Son of God 2. Jesus died to atone for everyone's sins 3. Jesus rose from the dead

Question 43

What is always part of Jesus' teaching?

Answer 43

Forgiveness

Question 44

Most Christians believe that one God exists in three forms, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. What are these three forms in one called?

Answer 44

Holy Trinity

Question 45

The life of Paul and other early Christians are described in what book of the New Testament?

Answer 45

Acts of the Apostles

Question 46

The common elements of Judaism and Christianity are called what?

Answer 46

Judeo-Christian tradition

Question 47

Christians live all over the world. Where do most Christians live?

Answer 47

In Europe and the Americas

Question 48

There many Christians groups but the one central belief is what?

Answer 48

Jesus

Question 49

When the Pax Romana ended, Roman leaders gained power more from the ____________.

Answer 49

Military

Question 50

Whose death in 180 marked the end of the Pax Romana?

Answer 50

Marcus Aurelius

Question 51

In 235 AD, why did the army decided who would be emperor?

Answer 51

An emperor would be emperor only as long as the army supported him. "enrich the soldiers, scorn all other men."

Question 52

Rome would pay soldiers who would fight for pay rather than their country. What were they called?

Answer 52

Mercenaries

Question 53

Who was the last emperor to rule both the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire?

Answer 53

Augustus Theodosius

Question 54

Who ruled from 284 to 305, helped restore order, made the economy stronger, and divided the empire into two halves?

Answer 54

Diocletian

Question 55

In 324, who became emperor? He made the empire whole again and began work on an impressive new capital for the eastern half which would become known as Constantinople.

Answer 55

Constantine