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- Augustus Ceasar
- *Amazing Administrative Ability *Removes army from Rome *Consolodated Frontier *Doesn't further expand Empire
- Praetorian Guards
- Body guards of the emperor; Created by Augustus
- Civil Service
- Paid to manage and run government: created by Augustus
- Agriculture and Trade
- economic foundation of empire
- Paul's instruction to slaves (Philemon)
- Receive Onesimus as a brother because he has been converted
- Gravitas
- Roman word for importance, dignity, or respect
- Colesseum
- Free games sponsered by government, Naval battles; all would attend
- Circus Maximus
- giant racetrack for chariots, held 1,000's of people
- Caligula
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mentally disturbed
- Claudius
- weak/sickly ruler
- Nero
- immoral; murdered wife and mother; persecuted Christians in Rome; commited suicide
- Titus
- Built Collesium, Mt. Vesuvius blow up
- Domition
- continues public building; took charge of conduct and morals of Rome, committed suicide
- Marcus Aurelius
- most noble figure of Ancient World; devoted himself to law and Philosophy; stoic; wrote "Meditations"; always amongst war
- Christianity and Judaism
- Both founded upon OT, Christianity is the prophesy fulfilled
- Miracles (all 4 gospels)
- feeding of 5,000, resurrection
- Pilate
- Roman Emperor, puts Jesus to death
- Disciple/Apostle
- Followers/ Sent ones
- Appeal of the gospel
- *Embraced All People *Gave hope to the powerless *Promised Eternal Life after death *Offered personal relationship with a loving God
- How did the Pax Romana encourage spread of the gospel?
- *Road system/safer to travel *Everyone spoke Greek *No big wars
- AD 70
- Fall of Jerusalem
- Martyr
- witness
- Conversion of Constantine
- 312 AD
- Edict of Milan
- Issued by Constantine, legalized Christianity
- Was it a good thing for the church to be legalized?
- Yes, persecution ends, government helps church
- Bishop
- Overseer of a # of churches
- Nicea and Nicene Creed
- summary of orthodox Christian teaching
- Paterfamilias
- rule of the father
- Commodus
- dressed like Hercules; throwback to Nero, fought beasts and gladiators
- Servus
- based on power alone; increased soldiers pay; bloodshed; created larger and more expansive army
- Debasement of coinage
- lowering of value; minting coins with less and less silver
- Inflation
- when prices rise
- 211-300
- time of chaos/ 70 emporers
- Diocletian
- reissues new money; sets sealing on how much you can charge on something
- Constantine
- Becomes Christian, made you follow your family's occupation
- Byzantium
- town Constantine moves capital to Roman empire
- Barbarians
- not Roman, not educated
- Julian the Apostle
- *last direct descendant from Constantine *last non-Christian emperor *created 3 part strategy to eliminate advantages Christians had
- 3 part strategy to eliminate advantages Christians had
- 1. cut off as part as the community 2. Attempted to establish Pagan church strategy 3. Philosophical attempt to discard Christianity (new belief system/ spinoff of Judaism)
- Theodosius
- Divides empire in 2 for his two sons, the Roman and Byzantium empire
- Alaric the Visigoth
- 1st time Rome is sacked in a long time
- Atilla the Hun
- scourage of God
- vandals
- invaded Rome
- Odovacer
- Barbarian king who removes Romulus Augustus
- Romulus Augustus
- last Roman King (14 yrs old)
- 476
- Fall of Rome
- Mosaics
- Pictures or designs made by setting small pieces of stone, glass, or tile onto a surface
- Virgil
- poet famous for writing the Aeneid
- Aqueduct
- Brought water into cities and towns; designed by Roman engineers
- Latin
- adopted by different peoples and developed into other languages
- Roman Law
- *Everyone had the right to equal treatment under the law *A person was considered innocent until proven guilty *A person should only be punished for actons, not thoughts