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Augustus
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Although the Roman republic had greatly increased the territory ruled by Rome, under the emperors even more territory was added to the empire, with ? adding more than any other ruler.
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dictototorsupermus
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Among the titles Augustus had been awarded were all the following except
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Those who ruled Rome from 96-180 were called the Five Good Emperors because they
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were all capable politicians and since none but one had a son that survived him.
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Pax Romana refers to the
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The Roman peace
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Revolts in Judea in the first and second century resulted in
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the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
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The Romans were the first people to use ? on a massive scale in their buildings
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concrete
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Roman Law was developed under the Principate by
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Augustus
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The crisis of the early third century was preciptated by
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retreat of the eastern frontier and violent tendencies of marcus Arelius' son Commodus
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When the emperor Commodus was assassinated in 192, civil war engulfed the Roman Empire, with ? eventually claiming the throne.
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Septimius Severus
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During the third century, Rome underwent a prolonged period that came very close to destroying the empire. This period is known as the time of
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Barracks Emperors when Rome had 26 emperors in 50 years.
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Realizing that the Roman Empire had become too large for a single ruler to control it
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Diocletian divided the empire in half trusting a junior colleague to rule the western part
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The tetrarchy was the split of the roman empire into halves and the creation of
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An Augustus in the west and one in the east who were succeeded by Caesars
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When Diocletian took power
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he isolated himself from ordinary business and people and introduced as eastern style of rule wearing a diadem and purple robes.
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Many Greek philosophies gained large numbers of Roman adherents and shared several tenets, but the one that was instrumental in influencing Christian theology was
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Neoplatonism
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What point was in dispute between Arians and Christian orthodoxy?
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whether Jesus was of the same being and substance as God the Father
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What were the general results of the doctrinal quarrels of the early centuries?
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Dogmas of the Christian Church gradually became fixed
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The differences between the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire
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in culture neighbors and forgiven those who wronged them.
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Christianity went from being a persecuted faith in the early fourth century to being the recognized faith of the empire; this last step was the result of the action by the emperor
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Theodosius who prohibited pagan worship
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After their defeat of Rome, the Goths split into many different groups and moved on to settle many areas in Europe; those who moved into the area of Spain and southern France were known as the
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Visgoths
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The traditional date for the \"fall\" of Rome is
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476 AD when Odovacer toppled Emperor Romulus Augustus
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Jerome's most lasting contribution to Western Christian culture was
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his translation of the Bible into Latin
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Augustine's Confessions is a
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series of autobiographical essays directed toward God
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On the City of God
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defense of Christianity by Augustine in the wake of Rome's sack in 410.
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Beothius's Consolation of Philosophy is a
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most famous work of Boethius
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Historians now refer to the period from 284 to 610 AD as late Antiguity because
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it is a period of its own themes and developments, neither wholly Roman and not yet medieval
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Virgil's Aeneid built on Homer's epic literature
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by connecting Roman history to the heroic narrative of the Trojan war
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the Romans were a military society almost from the moment they settled in Italy because they
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continually forced to defend their own conquests against invaders
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The Latin Right of the early Romans guaranteed that
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Contracts, marriages, and citizenship were valid across Latium
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According to legend, Rome was first ruled by
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Romulus
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Which legend explains the end of the Roman monarchy and the founding the republic
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The rape of Lucretia
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After a plebeian rebellion in the early fifth century BC
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The patricians accepted the elected tribunes and written laws
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Twelve Tables of Law, approved in 450 BC represent
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The codification of existing laws for all to see and obey
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Central to Roman identity was a conservatism expressed in an unwritten code of
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Mosmaiorum
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According to the patria potestas provision of the twelve tables, a Roman father
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Had absolute power over his family, up to and including the power of life and death
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Traditional Roman religion included ancestor worship and
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Oligarchs who played dual roles as priests and politicians
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Why did the Romans regard Carthage as a threat
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The Carthaginian empire in Sicily and Spain was encroaching on Rome
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During the second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal
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Brought his entire army, including elephants, over the Alps
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After Rome had twice defeated Carthage a third Punic War
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War hawks who thought Carthage must be destroyed
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Since the Romans employed slaves for all forms of manual labor
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NO industrial revolution took place and urban underemployment was common
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The greatest Roman Stoic, Cicero, believed that
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the virtue leads to happiness and peace of mind is the highest goal
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Cicero one of the most famous Stoics of the later republic believed in all the tenets of Stoicism except
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withdrawal from public life
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Social tensions in the late Roman Republic were made worse by
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The fourfold division of people: senators, equestrians, commoners, and slaves
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Prior to Julius Caesar's appointment as \"Dictator for Life\" only one other Roman had been appointed to that position without the traditional six-month term, and he was
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Sulla
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When Julius Caesar adopted Octavian as his heir
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fight against his rivals and kills his republican opponents
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the death of cleopatra
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Octavian declared Antony a traitor while the senate declared war on Cleopatra- not on Antony. lest octavian be accused of starting another civil war. They both committed suicide. She arranges a poisonous snake by allowing the asp to bite her on her chest
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The Augustan system of government
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The Principate, because Octavian ruled as first citizen. It refers to the political reforms instituted by Augustus and continued under his successors
