Chapter 6 Rome Vocabulary

“Roman peace”

A brick Pipe; An artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley.

Male head of a family

Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman aristocratic 

picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone

Latin poem written by Virgil in late 1 st century BCE

Hebrew word 'anointed one". The equivalent Greek term is christos. Jesus is the Christ and the Messiah because he is the Anointed One

in the roman republic, 1 of the 2 powerful officials elected each year to command the army and direct the government

Less wealthy landowners, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers

a military unit of the ancient Roman army, made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers and a group of soldiers on horseback

an emperor of Rome. The Senate became afraid of his increasing popularity and wanted him to come back with his army as a common citizen. He disobeyed and took his army to the Rubicon River, knowing that would cause Civil war. He overtook Rome and made himself dictator. Although he retained the form of the Senate, he named himself dictator for life. He was stabbed to death on March 15, 44 B.C.

(70-19 B.C.E.)
---One of three poets who represented the golden age of Roman literature.
---Virgil's Aeneid (modeled on Homer's epics) describes the legendary foundation of the Roman state by the fugitive Trojan prince, Aenas.
---It was written at the request of Augustus, and in the "prophecy" celebrates his glorious reign.

one of Jesus' twelve disciples; also, any early preacher of Christianity

Jesus' beloved disciple; denied Jesus; he was crucified upside down; knew Jesus first hand.

domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

* Caesar’s adopted son, Octavian

* first emperor of Rome

* took the title, Augustus (great and holy one)

A historian who wrote the most famous Latin prose work  of the golden age.  His masterpiece was The Early History of Rome which traced Roman history to 9 B.C.  He saw history in terms of moral lessons.

people who die/suffer for beliefs

one of the first Christian missionaries

moved away from insistence that adherents of the new religion follow Jewish law

use of Greek as language of Church

Around 450 B.C these laws were written down on twelve tablets and hung in Roman Forum, the section of the city that was the center of government. The Laws of twelve tables became the foundation of Roman civil laws.

soldier serving in a foreign army for pay.

Roman historian of the early 2nd century C.E., whose multivolume work The Annals of Rome provides substantial information about Roman history from the beginning down to his own time

-Late Roman