History Chapter 6 stuff
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- Virgil
- Wrote the Aeneid
- Horace
- satarist who used gentle and playful wit to attack human folly
- Juvenal
- a biting satarist who severly reprimanded Roman ideas and culture
- Livy
- Historian who attempted to glorify Roman history
- Tacitus
- historian who wrote bitterly about Augustus and his successors
- Ptolemy
- came up with the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe
- Galen
- pushed frontiers of medical science to practical use
- Pliny the Elder
- a Roman scientist who compiled many topics into an encyclopedia
- Zealots
- group of Jews who opposed the Roman inteference in their society
- Jesus
- a Jew who founded Christianity
- Paul
- spread the teachings of Jeasus beyond the Jewish communities to gentiles.
- Constantine
- emperor who allowed Christianity to be practiced and built a new capitol (Constantinople)
- Edict of Milan
- an edict allowing Christianity to be practiced in the Roman empire
- Theodosius
- mother of Constantine who encouraged him to pass the Edict of Milan
- Origen
- a theologist who was respected for his intellectual achievements
- Augustine
- bishop of Hippo who wrote "The city of God)
- Diocletian
- emperor who tried to increase the prestige of the emperor and tried to slow down inflation
- Huns
- a nomadic people who migrated across Central Asia
- Alaric
- Visigoth General who overran Italy and plundered Rome
- Attila the Hun
- Hun leader who embarked on a savage campaign of conquest across much of Europe
- Odoacer
- Germanic leader who ousted the emperor in Rome
- Latins
- group of people who settled along the Tiber river around 800BC
- Etruscans
- group of people who lived north of Rome. For time they ruled much of central Italy, including Rome itself
- Laws of the Twelve Tablets
- a group of stones with the laws codified on them for the plebians to see
- Jupiter
- main god who ruled over the sky and other gods
- Carthage
- an empire that spread from N.Africa to the western Mediterranean
- Punic Wars
- Series of wars between Carthage and Rome
- Hannibal
- Carthaginian general who led his army on an epic march across the Pyrenees
- Cato
- senator who ended each speech with the saying "Carthage must be destroyed"
- Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
- Two brothers who attempted to reform Rome. They were killed by senators and hired thugs in a wave of violence
- Julius Caesar
- ambitious military commander who conquered Gaul, became dictator of Rome, pushed through reforms, and was finally assassinated by the Senate
- Mark Anthony
- Caesar's chief general
- Octavian
- Caesar's grandnephew
- Caligula
- appointed his horse as senator
- Nero
- persecuted Christians and was blamed for setting a fire that destroyed much of Rome
- Hadrian
- codified Roman law
- Marcus Aurelius
- wrote Meditations and followed Plato's idea of a philosopher-king
- Pax Romana
- 200-year span of peace in Rome
- Circus Maximus
- Large sports stadium where chariot races used to occur
- Greco-Roman Civilization
- blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman traditions