History unit 2 section 3
Augustus died in the year A.D. ____.
14
Diocletian tried to restore order to the empire during his reign from 284 - ____.
305
Tiberius gracchus was ___
A reformer
Father of Christian monasticism
Anthony of Egypt
Romans learned to carry huge amounts of water by building ____.
Aqueducts
Heresy denying Christ's dignity
Arianism
Literature declined after the death of ____.
Augustus
Hadrian
Built a wall in northern England
Rome's adversary in Punic wars was ___.
Caesar
At the height of trade in the empire, materials were bought ____ and ____.
China and India
Circuses and bloody games were held in the Roman____.
Colosseum
In response to the false teaching of the arians, emperor ____ assembles a council in A.D 325 to settle the matter and produced the ___ creed.
Constantine and nicene
A Pyrrhic victory is one that ___.
Costs the winner too much
A.D. 313
Edict of Milan
The first major persecution was order by ____.
Emperor Decius
Five hundred years before christ, Rome was controlled by neighboring ____.
Etruscans
Republican Rome began with a revolt against the ___.
Etruscans
After the ascension of Jesus, the gospel was first preached in Rome. True or false?
False
After the nicene creed people began to believe that Jesus was the son of God. True or false?
False
Constantine moved the capital of the empire to Rome. True or false?
False
Jesus was born during the reign of Julius Caesar. True or false?
False
Jesus was born in Bethlehem because His parents lived there. True or false?
False
Jesus was crucified by the Roman officials against the will of the people themselves. True or false?
False
Rome was burned by Christians in A.D. 64. True or false?
False
Saul was an enthusiastic Christian from the beginning of his life, and his faith had never wavered. True or false?
False
The decline of the Roman Empire caused Christianity to expand and prosper. True or false?
False
The ministry of Jesus lasted only seven years. True or false?
False
The life style of ancient Romans centered around the ____.
Family
The work of the senate was held in the ____ in Rome .
Forum
Rome borrowed much of its architecture from ___.
Greece
Rome was the greatest empire since, and rose from the ashes of ____.
Greece
"Bread and circuses" is a term still used to refer to a system of public ___.
Handouts
The city of Alexandria was famous for being the cultural and ____ center during the roman era.
Intellectual
Latifundia were ___
Large estates
Theodosius I
Last man to rule a Roman Empire
French, Italian, and Spanish languages and many English words are based upon the ____ language.
Latin
The twelve tables were a written set of ____.
Laws
Three conditions which led to a decline in the empire after A.D. 180 were:
Leadership dispute decline in trade hurt the becoming mercenaries hired.
Caesar was assassinated on the ides of march, which was ___.
March 15
After caesar's death, Rome was ruled by Octavian and ____.
Mark Antony
A ____ is an archbishop who ruled a province of the roman church.
Metropolitan
Constantine
Moved capital to Byzantium
Accused Christians of burning Rome
Nero
The emperor who was accused of setting Rome on fire was ____.
Nero
Romans were monogamous, meaning that a man marries only ___.
One woman
Pax Romana refers to an extraordinary 200 years of ____ for Rome.
Peace
Caesar was killed because of his belief in ____.
Perpetual dictatorship
Those who struggled longest and hardest before winning political equality in Rome were the ___.
Plebeians
The three historical divisions of the Roman Empire are ____, ____, and ____.
Pre-republic, republic, empire
The original basis of the legal systems today is ____.
Roman law
Two brothers who, according to legend, are responsible for the founding of Rome were _____ and ___.
Romulus and Remus
Before he became dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar was a famous ____.
Soldier
St. Jerome
The vulgate
The number of Punic wars was ___
Theew
193 to 285
Time of anarchy
Rome's attitude towards Christians up to the time of Nero was ____.
Tolerance
Two conditions in the empire that helped early Christians to spread the gospel were ____ and ___.
Trade routes and highway systems
The arians rejected the doctrine of the ______ and taught that Christ and the Father were not of the same essence or nature.
Trinity
After three days in the tomb, Jesus rose from the dead. True or false?
True
By 381, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire. True or false?
True
Golgotha was the name of the place where Jesus died. True or false?
True
Jesus was betrayed by Judas iscariot, one of his own disciples. True or false?
True
Not much has been written about the boyhood of Jesus. True or false?
True
Paul took the gospel as far as Greece and Rome. True or false?
True
Paul was excuted by the emperor Nero. True or false?
True
The gospel is a true story of historical events. True or false?
True
The last of the apostles to die was john. True or false?
True
The most significant event of the Roman period was the birth, life, and death of Jesus Christ. True or false?
True
Patricians in a Rome were members of the ____ class.
Upper
The famous poem, the Aenead was written by ____.
Virgil
Marcus Aurelius
Wrote mediations
