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Ancient Rome 001 2010nov23
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| "Veni, Vidi, Vici" | Julius Caesar's slogan, for conquering lands "I came, I saw, I conquered" |
| aqueducts | bringing water to crops |
| aristocracy | upper class |
| barbarians | refers to people without any culture - Romans & Chinese to outsiders |
| census | counting the number of people in an area |
| Christianity | monotheistic religion ? based on the life, teachings, sufferings, death & resurrection of the savoir Jesus Christ .. Adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire |
| Christians & Jews | followers of monotheistic belief systems who lived in territory controlled by the Romans (Roman Empire) ? both groups were persecuted for their beliefs ? loyalty conflicted with that to the Roman Emperor |
| Coliseum | a large place for entertainment - a stadium |
| conquest | to take over an area |
| Constantine the Great | Roman Emperor - he made Christianity the official religion in Rome 312 AD |
| constitution | written laws |
| Emperor Caesar Augustus | established Pax Romana [200 years of Roman peace] Rome reached the height of culture [30 BCE - 14 AD] |
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