Final Rome Vocab Words
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- messiah
- a savior in Jusaism and Christianity
- apostles
- 12 men that followed Jesus
- new testament
- the second part of the Christian Bible, which includes the Gospels and other writings of the early Christian church 31
- paul
- a jew who was converted to christianity
- Pliny the Elder
- Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history
- Virgil
- greatest poet, "Homer of Rome"
- mosaic
- decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together
- ptolemy
- Mathematician/Astronomer who believed the Earth was the center of the universe
- parable
- a story that illustrates a moral lesson
- pope
- leader of the Roman church
- cicero
- A famous Roman States man.
- 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)
- galen
- WHo was a Greek Physician that formed the basis of Roman medical science?
- Colosseum
- Most famous Roman arena
- jesus
- founder of Christianity
- martyr
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- arch
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- aqueduct
- a structure that carries water over long distances
- Tacitus
- greatest Roman historian (c.56 CE-c.120); created Histories and Annals
- cement
- a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay
- praetors
- Elected Roman officials in war lead armies in peace oversaw legal system