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- martyr
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- parable
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- Emperors
- held all powerful, absolute rule but were not gods
- Huns
- Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome
- galen
- Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
- cement
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- cicero
- a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)
- praetors
- Officials who oversaw the Roman legal system.
- colosseum
- amphitheater in Rome built about AD 75 or 80
- Constantine
- a walled city in northeastern Algeria east of Algiers
- mosiac
- picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone
- Paul
- (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles
- pliny the elder
- Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history
- Vandals
- germanic group who became pirates and attacked cities along the meditteranean coast
- Visigoths
- west goths
- livy
- Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
- judex
- Judge
- ptolemy
- an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC
- Diocletian
- He was a general that became emperor in A.D. 284, introduced reforms
- pope
- the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- arch
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
- New Testament
- the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other Epistles, and Revelation
- virgil
- a Roman poet
- aqueduct
- a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley
- Jesus
- a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth
- tacitus
- moved through the ranks of government as a senator, consul, and Roman governor of Asia
- Attila
- king of the Huns
- messiah
- the awaited king of the Jews