history 10.4

Question 1

paterfamilias

Answer 1

the male head of a family or household.

Question 2

patrician

Answer 2

an aristocrat or nobleman.

Question 3

the senate

Answer 3

at the head of the government bureaucracy and was a law court.

Question 4

plebians

Answer 4

a member of the lower social classes.

Question 5

twelve tables

Answer 5

The laws the Twelve Tables were a way to publicly display rights that each citizen had in the public and private sphere.

Question 6

adequet

Answer 6

satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity.

Question 7

inflation

Answer 7

a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

Question 8

vault and arches

Answer 8

An arch is a curved form found in architecture that can support itself. A vault is a structural form used for support and created with multiple arches

Question 9

latin

Answer 9

the language of ancient Rome and its empire, widely used historically as a language of scholarship and administration.

Question 10

emperor

Answer 10

a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.

Question 11

bribe

Answer 11

persuade (someone) to act in one’s favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.

Question 12

general warfare

Answer 12

the concern of the government for the people

Question 13

diocletian

Answer 13

Roman Emperor who when faced with military problems decided in 286 to divide the Roman Empire between himself in the east and Maximian in the west

Question 14

constatine

Answer 14

Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official

Question 15

barbarians

Answer 15

a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations

Question 16

visigoths

Answer 16

a member of the branch of the Goths who invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD and ruled much of Spain until overthrown by the Moors in 711.

Question 17

alaric

Answer 17

liable or threatening to cause the dizzying sensation of vertigo.

Question 18

the huns

Answer 18

people who invaded china and made them build the great wall

Question 19

taxes

Answer 19

compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.

Question 20

province

Answer 20

a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.

Question 21

citizen

Answer 21

a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.

Question 22

gual

Answer 22

a location where a stream is shallow

Question 23

spain

Answer 23

a country

Question 24

balkan provinces

Answer 24

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia

Question 25

battle of adrianople

Answer 25

The Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between an Eastern Roman army led by the Eastern Roman army

Question 26

Constantinople

Answer 26

A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire.