Unit 3 vocab of World Civilizations
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- First Christian Roman Emperor. Established the new capital of Rome. Legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of Roman Empire.
- Constantine the Great
- The common people of ancient Rome.
- Plebians
- Last Aztec emperor in Mexico. He was overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
- Moctezuma
- A proclamation, initiated by Constantine in the West, but agreed to by Licinius in the East, by which Christianity was given legal status, persecution stop.
- Edict of Milan
- Chief executives of the Roman republic; chosen annually.
- Consuls
- Related peoples who speak leanguages that part of the African language group called.... They are spread through most of subequatorial Africa.
- Bantu
- Best remembered for his reform of the law code and the military expansion of the imperial territory that was achieved during his reign.
- Justinian
- The three conflicts between Roma and Carthage that ended with the destruction of the Carthaginian Empire and the extension of Roman control throughout the western Mediterranean.
- Punic Wars
- Indigenous people of North Africa and the Sahara Desert.
- Berbers
- Rival in Mediterranean basin to Rome in the last centuries B.C.E. before ultimate defeat.
- Carthage
- One of the great generals of the ancient world, fought against Rome in the Second Punic War for Cartage. War elephants!
- Hannibal
- The center of the Ethiopian Kingdom.
- Axum
- The upper governing class in ancient Rome.
- Patricians
- Site in the Yucatan of Mayan urban development in the tenth to thirteenth centuries.
- Chichen-Itza
- King of Mali, early fourteenth century.
- Mansa Musa