Chapter 7 Vocab
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- Five Good Emperors
- Series of Rulers
- Ptolemy
- scientist and scholar from the Great Egyptian city Alexandria
- Scipio
- Roman general
- Gladiators
- Trained fighters who were usually slaves
- Tacitus
- wrote Annals
- Pope
- usually the patriarch of rome, was superior over other patriarchs
- Patriarchs
- bishops of empires
- Constantine
- Emperor that would slow the empire's decline
- Huns
- nomadic people from asia who lived by raiding or plundering
- Diocletian
- Emperor that would slow the empire's decline
- Goths
- Tribe (western Visigoths and eastern Ostrogoths)
- Jesus
- His followers founded a new religion (Christianity)
- Censors
- registered citizens according to their wealth, appointed candidates to the Senate, and oversaw the moral conduct of all citizens
- Punic Wars
- Three conflicts between the Romans and the Carthaginian Navy
- Julius Caesar
- Nephew of Marius, was becoming a famous general at the time and he was a powerful public speaker
- Augustus (Octavian)
- "The revered one" he was named that by the Senate
- Marc Anthony
- General and an ally of Caesar's
- Ovid
- wrote love lyrics and the Metamorphoses
- Praetors
- Elected to help the consuls
- Hannibal
- One of the greatest generals at the time (Spain)
- Vandals
- Tribe in the north of the Rhine and Danube river
- Gaius Marius
- Roman general who was elected as a consul and brought major changes to Roman Political scenes
- Rabbis
- Jewish scholars who interpreted scripture and were learned in Jewish law
- Dictator
- Absolute ruler
- Galen
- Physician, who wrote several volumes
- Equites
- A class of business people and landowners
- Spartacus
- A slave that lead revolts
- Consuls
- Chief executives
- Horace
- wrote human emotionsin odes, satires, and epistles
- Martyrs
- Put to death for their beliefs
- Plebeians
- Made up most of the population, mostly farmers and workers
- Checks and Balances
- Prevents any one part of the government from being too powerful
- Pax Romana
- The name if Augstus's time of reign "Roman Peace"
- Gnaeus Pompey
- He joined J. Caeser and Licinius Crassus and formed the first Triumvirate
- Bishops
- headed the church in each city
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla
- He was elected as a consul
- Cleopatra
- Daughter of the ruling Ptolemy family, on the throne as a Roman ally
- Julio-Claudian Emperors
- Relatives of Julius Caesar who ruled
- The Gracchi
- Two brothers (Tiberiaus and Gaius) saw the need to reform
- Tribunes
- Officials who had some power over actions by the Senate and other public officials
- Aqueducts
- Bridgelike structures that carried water from the mountains
- Attlia
- A tribe
- Patrcians
- powerful landowners who controlled the government
- Virgil
- one of greatest Roman poets
- Inflation
- A rise of prices caused to a decrease in the value of money
- Plutarch
- Greek, wrote Parallel lives
- Triumvirate
- Rule of three
- Veto
- Refuse to approve, the acts of the other consul
- Republic
- Form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state