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Romans suffered serious defeat against _____ during the Second Punic War.
Hannibal
A dictator rules with _____.
absolute power
What are large Italian estates that mostly use slave labor?
latifundia
_____ is a form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote.
Republic
The first dictator of Rome who was later assassinates was _____.
Julius Caesar
_____ is a period of peace and prosperity that lasted for 100 years.
Pax Romana
The ____ age was called the golden age of Latin literature.
Augustan
A poet named Juvenal said that _____ kept Roman masses distracted.
Bread and Circuses
Who was the first Christian emperor?
Constantine
What declared official tolerance of Christianity?
Edict of Milan
What group of people first invaded Rome?
Visigoths
What was the body of laws that were chief gifts to the later generation?
Law of Nations
Who made up the first triumvirate?
Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar
What was the population of Rome at its height?
50 million
Which emperor made Christianity the official religion of Rome?
Theodosius the Great
Which emperors made reforms that enhanced the army and institutions, but drained the public funds?
Diocletian and Constantine
Which Germanic tribe sacked Rome second?
Vandals
Which two people committed suicide after being defeated by Octavian?
Cleopatra and Antony
_____ are apartment blocks for the poor.
Insulae
_____ are the male heads of their families.
Paterfamilias
_____ being deposed by the Germanic head symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Romulus Augustulus
_____ are made up by the less wealthy land holders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers
Plebeians
_____ was a gladiator who led a slave revolt.
Spartacus
_____ decided Rome was too large for a single ruler.
Diocletian
Who violently overthrew Rome from the inside?
zealots
The _____ were great landowners who made up Rome's ruling class.
patricians
Virgil wrote the _____.
Aeneid
Latins are from _____.
Latium
______ was blamed for the burning of Rome.
Nero
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History Chapter 5
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Rome and the Rise of Christianity
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