Kelly Holts History Vocabulary
These vocabulary words are all of the vocabulary words on the Vocabulary sheet
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- Neptune
- The god of the Sea
- Venus
- the god of love
- Marcus Aurelius
- Wrote book, brilliant, scholarly and the last good emperor
- Juno
- Queen,woman, marriage
- Colosseum
- A huge Amphitheatre
- Apllo
- the god of light and music
- Nerva
- Started programs for the poor and was killed by the patricians
- Mercury
- Messenger god
- Nero
- He was the last of the Julio-Claudian Emperors, and burned Christians and Jews as torches
- Caligula
- lost all the money in treasurey and had the senators kiss his feet
- Claudius
- Spastic, and died by poisoned mushrooms
- Julio-Claudian Emperors
- When a few emperors came into power and were related to Augusus Ceaser
- Commodos
- dressed like Hercules and was left handed, he used Gladiators during his reign
- Pantheon
- temple to all gods
- Mount Vesuvius
- The volcano in Rome that erupted and destroyed the cities of Pompeii
- Trajan
- Great military emperor and the first emperor from a Roman province
- Jupiter
- King
- Mars
- the god of war
- Rhetoric
- public Speaking
- Vesta
- the god of hearth and home
- Vespasian
- built the Collasium
- Tiberius
- know as the "reign of Terror" but also a good administrator
- Gladiators
- A person who fights animals and other people and public entertainment
- Minerva
- the god War and wisdom
- Hadrian
- He ruled for 21 years and built the walls in northern england to keep the Scottish out
- Antoninus Pius
- (dutiful conduct) tried to protect the slaves
- Pluto
- the god of the underworld
- Pompeii
- The city in Rome where the volcano Mt. vesuvius erupted destroying the city
- Paterfamilias
- Name fo the father as the head of the household in Ancient rome