Rome Religious Terms

Question 1

Feral children

Answer 1

a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language.

Question 2

Etruscans

Answer 2

Much larger groups than the Romans who came in Roman and ruled the Romans.

Question 3

Pater Familias

Answer 3

Father figures, the head of a Roman family. Often referred as the oldest living male in a household.

Question 4

Vestal Virgins

Answer 4

Priestess of Goddess of Vesta. Spend 10 years learning how to be a Vestal virgin and spend 30 years actually being a vestal virgin and eventually retire.

Question 5

Pontifex Maximus

Answer 5

The high priest of Rome. In charge of all the other priests and make sure the Roman gods and happy and peaceful.

Question 6

Mos Maiorum

Answer 6

The religious code of ancient Rome. “doing the right thing”

Question 7

Judaism

Answer 7

the religion and the way of life of the Jewish people. Believe there is only one god Yahweh.

Question 8

Aeneas

Answer 8

The Trojan hero who moved to Rome and founded the Roman empire.

Question 9

Venus

Answer 9

Mother of Aeneas. Goddes of love, beauty.

Question 10

Jupiter

Answer 10

God of sky.

Question 11

Mars

Answer 11

God of agriculture and war.

Question 12

Vesta

Answer 12

Goddes of hearth.

Question 13

Numina

Answer 13

Invisible Forces, or the divine power.

Question 14

Pax Deorum

Answer 14

a covenant between the gods and the Roman state.

Question 15

Pax Romana

Answer 15

The safety and stability guaranteed by Roman might.

Question 16

Romanization

Answer 16

The spread of the Latin language and Roman way of life and dominated the western provinces.

Question 17

Toga

Answer 17

Traditional cloak worn by Roman male citizens.

Question 18

Catholic Christian

Answer 18

Believe in Jesus.

Question 19

Justin Martyr

Answer 19

The man who represents the Christian community that typified the response to Roman Christian persecution. He was an apologist.

Question 19

Apologist

Answer 19

To give a reason defense.

Question 20

Martyrdom

Answer 20

to give witness the fate and willingly to die for the fate.

Question 21

Edict of Milan

Answer 21

Proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire.

Question 22

Athletes of God

Answer 22

What many traditional Christians look up to.

Question 23

Anthony of Egypt

Answer 23

The founder of Christian monasticism whose radical approach to discipleship permanently impacted the Church.

Question 24

Equites

Answer 24

The class of well-to-do Italian merchants and landowners second in wealth and social status to the senatorial class.

Question 25

Atrium

Answer 25

A rectangular courtyard with an open skylight that lets in light and rainwater for drinking and washing.