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Roman Empire

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What is the Colosseum? The place romans would go to watch gladiators fight.
Who was Jupiter? The Roman god of the heavens.
Who was Lares? A guardian spirit the Romans believed that they watched over their land.
Who was Diana? The Roman goddess of the hunt.
What was the Pantheon? A temple where the Romans worshiped their gods and goddesses.
Who was Juno? The queen of the Roman gods.
Who was Penates? A god the Romans believed that watched over their stored food.
What was the Circus Maximus? A theater where romans would watch sports and circuses.
What are rituals? Ceremonies.
Who was Minerva? The roman goddess of wisdom.
Who was Vesta? A roman guardian of the fireside.
Who was Mars? The roman god of war.
Who was Saul? (Paul) A christian missionary who went around the Roman Empire preaching to the Romans.
Who was Peter? A disciple of Jesus, who preached to Gentiles as well as Jews
What does it mean to persecute? To treat cruelly.
What is conversion? To change from one religion to another.
What was Phillippi? A big Roman city that Paul wrote letters to in Phillippians, a book of the bible.
What is a Gentile? A non-jew.
What was Ephesus? A big Roman City that was located in Asia minor.
What was Corinth? A city in the Roman World, that Paul reached and wrote letters to form the book Corinthians.
What is a sect? A group.
Who was Tacitus? A roman historian, senator, governor, and consul.
Who was Valerian? A roman emperor that persicuted the Christians.
Who was Theodosius? A roman emperor threatened with excommunication.
Who was Pliny the Younger? A governor of Asia Minor that helped persicute the Christians.
Who was Diocletian? An emperor of Rome who began the most violent persecution of the Christians.
Who was Bishop Ambrose? A bishop who threatened theodosius with excommunication.
Who was Nero? An emporer of Rome who blamed the christians for starting a fire that burned Rome.
Who was Decius? An emporer that forced all the citizens of Rome to worship and make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
Who was Constantine? The first emporer of Rome that followed Christianity.
What are Annals? Historical records.
What is a martyr A person who chooses to die instead of giving up their religious beliefs.
What is a chi-rho? A christian symbol with a "p" and an "x" combined.
What is excommunocation? Being banned from the church until you repent your actions.
What are the pagams? People who were not Christians ot Jews.
Who was Diocletian? An emperor of Rome who began the most violent persecution of the Christians.
Who was Bishop Ambrose? A bishop who threatened theodosius with excommunication.
Who was Nero? An emporer of Rome who blamed the christians for starting a fire that burned Rome.
Who was Decius? An emporer that forced all the citizens of Rome to worship and make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
Who was Constantine? The first emporer of Rome that followed Christianity.
What are Annals? Historical records.
What is a martyr A person who chooses to die instead of giving up their religious beliefs.
What is a chi-rho? A christian symbol with a "p" and an "x" combined.
What is excommunocation? Being banned from the church until you repent your actions.
What are the pagams? People who were not Christians ot Jews.
Who was Dio Cassius? Roman historian that wrote about Rome beginning to decline.
Who was Commodus? A roman emperor that was assassinated.
Who was Septimius Severus? A military leader and emperor.
Who was Maximian? Ruler of western empire after Diocletian divided the empire into eastern a western regions.
Who was Severus Alexander? Roman emperor and last ruler of the Severus dynasty. Was assassinated.
Who was Alaric? Visigoth king who conquered Rome in 410.
Who were the Vandals? A barbarian tribe that raided most of the west empire.
Who was Odoacer? Germanic chief that forced the last emperor out of the western part of Rome.
Who were the Visigoths? A tribe of Barbarians that killed an emperor of the western empire.
Who were the Goths? A tribe of barbarians that split into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths.
Who was Orosius? Christian historian who lived during the fall of Rome.
Who were the Franks? A tribe of Barbarians that entered the Roman Empire around A.D. 350.
Who was Valens? Emperor of the eastern empire who was killled by the Visigoths.
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