Chapter 6 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Augustus
The honorary name meaning “divinely favoured” that the roman senate bestowed on octavian; it became short hand for “Roman Imperial Ruler”
Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
The two centuries of relative peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire under early principate begun by Augustus
Principate
Roman Political system invented by Augustus as a disguised monarchy with the princeps (“First man”) as emperor
Praetorian Guard
The group of soldiers stationed in Rome under the emperors control; first formed by Augustus
Colosseum
Rome’s fifty-thousand-seat amphitheatre built by the Flavian dynasty for gladiatorial combats and other spectacles
Decurions (dih KYUR ee uhns)
Municipal senate members in the Roman Empire responsible for collecting local taxes
Romanization
The spread of Roman Law and culture in the provinces of the Roman Empire
Martyr
Greek for “witness” the term for someone who dies for his or her religious beliefs
Apostolic (ah puh STAH lihk) Succession
The principle by which Christian bishops traced their authority back to the apostles of Jesus
Orthodoxy
True doctrine; specifically the beliefs defines for Christians by councils of bishops
Hersey
False doctrine; specifically the beliefs banned for Christians by councils of bishops
Crucifixion
Method of punishment of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang
Neoplatonism
Plotinus’s spiritual philosophy, based mainly on Platos ideas, which was very influential for christian intellectuals
Debasement of Coinage
Putting less silver in a coin without changing its face values; a failed financial strategy during the 3rd century C.E crisis in Rome
What is the Julio-Caludians?
The ruling family of the early principate from Augustus through Nero, descended from the aristocrat families of the Julians and Claudian
Who was part of the Julio-Claudians in order
Augustus (31BCE-14BCE) Tiberius (14BCE-37CE) Caligula (Gaius) (37-41CE) Claudius (41-54) Nero (54-68)
What was the significant points of Nero
- Age of 16
- Said to have “fiddled while Rome burnt”
- Built a big palace where Rome burnt
- Had his servant cut his throat
- Death sparked civil war
Titus (79-81CE)
- Vaspians son
- Supressed the Jewish Revolt in 70CE
- Sent relief to Pompeii and Herculanem in 79CE when volcano erupted and burned these towns
- Built Romes coliseum
- Died two years after becoming emperor
Domination 81-96CE
-Titus's brother Next emperor -Referred to himself as a lord or a god -executed numerous upper class citizens as "disloyal" -His wife and court murdered him in 96CE
Marcus Aureluis 161-180 BCE
Fought off the invaders from the Danube region as the dangers to the imperial territory along Northern frontiers kept increasing
-Last emperor of the roman political golden years
(peaceful succussor for nearly a century)
Christ
Evil powers were believed to control the world but God would send Messiah (Mashiach in Hebrew, Christ in Greek) to conquer them
Caracella 211-217
Made the financial crisis unavoidable with his dad (emperor Septimuis Severus 193-211) by draining the treasury to satisfy the army and their dreams of glory
Who killed their own brother and why?
Caracella killed his brother to ensure he would be in power, then went on to end the Golden age by his uncontrolled spending and cruelty, he was cruel to anyone who displeased him
Decius 249-251
Ordered to persecute christians and eliminate all of them to restore goodwill of the gods
