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Rome’s language

Latin

Who were the Punic wars were between?

Rome and Carthage

Who marched elephants over the Alps to attack Rome?

Hannibal

Members of the first Triumvirate

Ceaser, Pompey, Crassus

Members of the second Triumvirate

Antony, Lepidus, Octavian

First Roman emperor

Augustus

The great 18th century historian of Rome

Edward Gibbon

Roman emperor who established the “Dominate”

Diocletian

How many liberal arts are there?

7

What does BC stand for?

Before Christ

Believers in a secret knowledge that emphasized dualism

gnostics

The beliefs that those whom Jesus had charged with His mission could pass on that authority to others

apostolic succession

Who ordered the issuing of the Edict of Milan?

Nicea

Which German tribe sacked Rome in 410?

Visigoths

Author of The City of God

bishop Augustine of Hippo

Which famous historian blamed the fall of Rome on the Christians?

Edward Gibbon

Which group forced a great Germanic migration into Rome?

Huns

Who is considered the last emperor of Rome and the first Byzantine emperor?

Justinian

What does Islam mean?

submission

How many pillars of Islam are there?

5

What year did the last emperor die in Byzantium?

1453

What battle were Athenians associated with?

Battle of Marathon

What battle were Leonides associated with?

Thermopylae

Cyrus

Model ruler, avoid hubris

King Leonides famous quote

“Molon Labe” (Come and take them)

Who was Xenophon?

Student of Socrates, the March of 10000

What were Aristotle’s 4 causes/philosophies?

Material, Efficient, Formal, Final

What did Alexander the Great do in 334?

Cut the Gordian knot

Greatest multi-generational student-teacher succession

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great

Who was Alexander the Great’s father?

Phillip 2 of Macedon

What was the name of Alexander the Great’s war horse?

Bucephules

Who said Alexander the Great was the most important Ancient Roman?

Plutarch

Who created the basis for the Hellenistic era?

Alexander the Great

What did the Hellenistic era bring?

many scientific breakthroughs

What were the two philosophies of the Hellenistic eras?

Epicureanism & Stoicism

What is Epicureanism?

Avoid pain, pursue pleasure

What is Stoicism?

Take everything as it comes

What is the Roman ideal for a man?

Family man, patriot, farmer

Who was Cincinnatus?

Citizen, farmer, warrior, soldier (would give up power willingly)

Who is often referred to as the American Cincinnatus?

George Washington

Fasces

weapon representing status and power

Cato the elder

dressed like farmer (respect olden times), wrote first history of Rome in Latin

Cato the Younger

committed stoic suicide, rather than enduring the rule of Julius Ceaser

Famous Orator

D. Cicero

What did Virgil write?

Aeneid

Laborum, Pietas, Fatum meaning

labor, responsibility, spread culture

What was the biggest victory of the second Punic wars?

Cannae

Proposed the distributing of the public land to the poor farmers

Gracchi Brothers

Where Julius Ceaser rose

Gaul

Vercingeterex

surrendered to Julis Ceaser

Crossed the Rubicon River

Julius Ceaser

Ides if March

When Julius Ceaser was assassinated

Murdered Julius Ceaser

Cassius and Brutus

Most hated emporor

Nero

princeps

first citizen

Tetrarchy

4 people in charge

Battle of Aetium

Major naval battle, Octavian v. Antony

Pax Romana

peace

Emperors gave them two things to be happy

Bread and Circuses

The greatest debate

security or liberty

Antonine Good 5(3) emperors

Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius

Milvian Bridge

Constantine

According to their mythological past, Rome's foundation was connected to two brothers named:

Romulus and Remus

Two divisions of Roman society

Patricians and Plebians

What are two major people groups who limited the Roman Empire's expansion?

Germans, Persians

The Roman emperor who established the "Dominate"

Diocletian

"B.C." stands for

Before Christ

Believers in a secret knowledge that emphasized dualism

Gnosticism

Who ordered the issuing of the Edict of Milan?

Constantine

Arianism was denounced as a heresy at which council?

Council of Nicea

Which German tribe sacked Rome in 410?

Visigoths

Author of the "City of God"

Bishop Augustine of Hippo

Which group forced a great Germanic migration into Rome?

Huns

Islam means:

submission

How many pillars of Islam are there?

5

What year did the last Roman emperor die in Byzantium?

1453

Abelard was first renowned as a great soldier (T/F)

F

Abelard always wanted to go to Paris but never got to go (T/F)

F

Abelard's first notable teacher was

William of Champeaux

Abelard lamented how difficult Scripture was for him to understand (T/F)

F

Heloise's uncle

Fulbert

Abelard and Heloise had a son together (T/F)

T

Heloise eagerly married Abelard (T/F)

F

Abelard is mutilated by Muslims in the battle of Poitiers (T/F)

F

Abelard is eventually put in charge of an Abbey (T/F)

T

Abelard is a surprisingly early feminist (T/F)

F

Abelard clearly suffers throughout his life from self-doubt (T/F)

F

There is no such thing as a free market; all markets have rules and costs (T/F)

T

The rise of capitalism in the West from 1350-1600 is known as

Commercial Revolution

What English/Welsh weapon limited the importance of knights (and led to the only legal sport in England for a time)?

longbow

What new technology helped the French to drive the English out of France in the later years of the 100 years war?

gunpowder

Which family/dynasty arose triumphant out of the Wars of the Roses?

Tudor Dynasty

King Frederick III ascension as Holy Roman Emperor in 1438 marked the beginning of the ______ dynasty which would last until 1918.

Hapsburg

The rise of which eastern empire posed the greatest threat to Late Medieval Christendom?

Ottoman

Who wrote "The Prince" as a book of advice for the Medici family

Machiavelli

Which German invention (around 1450) enabled both the Renaissance and the Reformation?

Printing Press

The most famous Christian humanist (1466-1536)

Erasmus

The medieval era is the heyday of witch-hunting (T/F)

F

Who said "Here I stand; I can do no other."

Martin Luther

Which city-state first adopted the reforming message of Jean Calvin?

Geneva