Chapter 9 Highlights

Question 1

Is it true that wealthy Romans enjoyed a high standard of living while poor Romans struggled to survive?

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

What did Roman leaders do to keep people happy?

Answer 2

They provided bread and circuses?

Question 3

What are bread and circuses?

Answer 3

free rations of food and violent entertainment

Question 4

By the second century how much of the roman population were slaves?

Answer 4

1/3

Question 5

What is the mix between Greek and Roman traditions called?

Answer 5

Greco-Roman culture

Question 6

What did Romans think of greek culture?

Answer 6

They admired it

Question 7

Is the Virgil’s Aeneid from Greece or Rome?

Answer 7

Rome

Question 8

What are some of Romes achievements in arts?

Answer 8

Sculpture, frescoes and mosaics

Question 9

What did Roman engineers build to connect the empire?

Answer 9

aqueducts and roads

Question 10

When did Jewish people fall under Roman authority?

Answer 10

63 BC

Question 11

Where did Christianity began with?

Answer 11

Jesus

Question 12

Who was Jesus?

Answer 12

A jewish preacher

Question 13

Who did Jesus attract followers from?

Answer 13

Galilee and Judea

Question 14

What happened to Jesus’s teachings after his crucifixion?

Answer 14

They were spread by his followers. Including Paul of Tarsus who traveled far to preach

Question 15

What happened to Christianity at first?

Answer 15

It faced many persecutions

Question 16

When was Christianity legalized?

Answer 16

4th century AD

Question 17

Who legalized Christianity?

Answer 17

Emperor Constantine

Question 18

Did Christianity ever become the official religion of Rome?

Answer 18

yes

Question 19

What are some early practices of the early Christian church?

Answer 19

baptism and Holy Communion

Question 20

Who’s death ended Pax Romana?

Answer 20

Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Question 21

When did Pax Romana end?

Answer 21

AD 180

Question 22

Why did Pax Romana end?

Answer 22

weak rulers including Emperor Marcus Aurelius’s sun Commondus

Question 23

What was the Civil war following Pax Romana for?

Answer 23

To be Emperor

Question 24

What is Diocletian known for?

Answer 24

Reorganizing the empire into two sections the east and the west

Question 25

Emperor Constantine moved his capital in which direction?

Answer 25

east

Question 26

What was Emperor Constantine’s new capital known as?

Answer 26

Constantinople

Question 27

When did foreign invaders attack Rome, sacking it?

Answer 27

410

Question 28

What is the legacy of Rome

Answer 28

language, art, culture, government and law