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Hist106M2
Midterm 2
Question | Answer |
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Consequences of Empire after Roman War | Wealth. Senate Control. Political lessons to general. Urbanization. Knights (ie farming), ruin of small farmer |
Forces at work in Late Republic of Rome | Senate and nobility, agitation for land reform, knight's commercial interests, italian pressure for citizenship, army |
Gracchi | brothers who made abortive attempt at reform |
Marius | Military Reforms of Marius - military, social, and political consequences. Failed political adventure |
Sulla-Senate alliance | rewarding of Sulla with an expedition against Kin Mithridates, an Asia Minor |
Pompey | rose in wake of suppression of the Spartacus slave revols towards the colase of the Sulla Constitution. Actions against Caesar was to strip him of his power to a certain Date |
Caesar | crosses Rubicon during civil war. Victory: Pompey's escape; pursuit to Cleopatra's Egypt. Reforms and controversies of Caesar: Julian calendar, threats, to the senate, for the proletariat. ASSASINATED |
Actium | Battle. Victory of Octavian |
Octavian | Cleopatra/Anthony commit suicide so Octavian takes Egypt as Hereditary possession. His quest: Republican Facade and autocratic reality |
Augustus | New name of Octavian |
Praetorian Guard | Executive service bureaucracy; |
Diocletian | Emperor; makes major attempt at rescue for Late Roman empire |
Signs of continuing decay | Emperor Constantine, a new captial at Constantinople, and continuing re-organization in the 4 prefectures |
Theodosius | last of the strong emperors of Rome |
Visigoths/Vandals | sacks Rome |
Romulus Agustus | last emporor in the west desposed by German general Odoacer |
Political aspirations in early christianity/the roman church | Jewish messiah, and the jewish nationalists (zealots) |
Zealots | Jewish nationalists |
Arianism | threat of heresy during early christianity/the roman church, as well as the controversy over the mystery of Trinity |
Voltaire | observations were the HRE: "it was neither holy, roman, or an empire" |
Emperor Justinian | invasion from the East. imperial and religious interference |
Iconoclast | further doctrinal differences in the holy roman empire |
Pope Gregory I, the Great | Reassertion of papal independence. |
Clovis | The Merovingian empire builder |
Carolingians | |
Charles Martel, aka the hammer | one of the military-religious mode of expansion. Cavalier attitude towards Church |
Pippin III | , aka the Short, becomes leader along with his brother Carloman. honors the "republica", he influence of the donation of Constanstine |
Charlemane | religious pecularities: Arian, iconoclast. Conflicts with Church policy: the Council of Nicaea, counters with his own counsil at Frankfort. Pathway to his coronation was: pope Hadrian, Pope Leo III, Christmasy Day |
Fundamental conditions of feudal relationship | equality of parties; contractual relationshipl limited time |
Fief | Benefice of feudalism |
Lord Vassal | purpose of Feudalism |
Lord Serf | purpose of Manorialism |
Fundamental conditions of the Manorial relationship | unequal, eterna |
Merovingians | the early Salic dynasty; Founder, Meroveus |
Council of Nicaea | defining the bible and earth |
St. Paul | apostle to the Gentiles |
St. Paul and the shaping of Christian doctrine | Jesus' death, original sin, and celibacy |
21 April 753 B.C. | Rome founded |