Chapter 7_identify
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- Galen
- physician who wrote several volumes that summarized all the medical knowledge
- the Gracchi
- two brothers, Tiberius and Gaius Graccus, who saw the need for reform in the Roman Republic
- Virgil
- greatest of the Roman poets who wrote the epic poem, Aeneid
- Jesus
- the Son of God who was crucified and died on the cross to save all from sin
- Gaius Marius
- brought major changes to the Roman political scene and created an army of volunteers
- Cleopatra
- a daughter of the ruling Ptolemy family
- Goths
- one of a group of Germanic tribes who flooded into the Roman Empire and later revolted, weakening the empire
- Julio-Claudian Emperors
- relatives of Caesar who ruled for 54 years of the Pax Romana following the death of Augustus
- Diocletian
- was co-emperor in the West who ended lawlessness by driving out the barbarians
- Pax Romana
- period of Roman peace from the beginning of Augustus's reign until the death of Marcus Aurelius
- Gnaeus Pompey
- ruled in the Triumvirate with Caesar and Crassus
- Julius Caesar
- nephew of Marius who was a powerful public speaker and spent a great deal of money to win support
- Ovid
- wrote love lyrics and the Metamorphoses
- Scipio
- Roman general whose army defeated Hannibal
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla
- ruled as a dictator starting in 82 B.C. and restored the Senate
- Constantine
- son of Constantius who became sole emperor --> supported Christianity and made Constantinople the capital
- Punic Wars
- three costly conflicts between the Romans and Carthaginians over control of the Mediterranean and overseas expansions
- Ptolemy
- scientist and scholar from Alexandria, Egypt who developed the Ptolemaic systen
- Tacticus
- wrote Annals where he expresses criticism of the government of Augustus
- Hannibal
- one of the greatest generals of all time who assembled a huge Carthaginian army
- Marc Antony
- a general and ally of Caesar's who drove out the conspirators and took control of Rome
- Plutarch
- a Greek who wrote Parallel lives, which were Greek and Roman biographies
- Huns
- nomadic people from Asia who attacked the Roman Empire
- Spartacus
- slave who led the most brutal revolt in 73 B.C.
- Vandals
- one of a group of Germanic tribes who invaded and destroyed territory in the Roman Empire
- Five Good Emperors
- five rulers who led Rome for almost 100 years during the Pax Romana
- Horace
- wrote of human emotions in odes, satires, and epistles
- Augustus (Octavian)
- "the revered one"; Caesar's grandnephew who began a series of military conquests
- Attila
- leader of the Huns in the mid 400s