| A | B |
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| Virgil | Roman writer who wrote the Aeneid Odyssey |
| Horace | Roman poet who wrote satires and odes |
| Galen | Greek doctor who brought many medical ideas to Rome |
| Ptolemy | important scientist who lived in Alexandria who studied different stars and planets |
| Spartacus | a gladiator who led a slave revolt in Italy in 73 B.C. |
| vault | curved ceiling |
| satire | writing that pokes fun at human weaknesses |
| ode | poems that express strong emotions about life |
| anatomy | study of body structure |
| Forum | open space that served as a marketplace and public square |
| gladiator | criminals, enslaved people, or poor people who fought animals and other people, they were admired as sport heros |
| paterfamilias | the father who was the head of the house hold |
| rhetoric | public speaking |
| Contantinople | was the new capital of Rome today is Istanbul |
| Diocletian | a general who became emperor who was well known for his reforms |
| Constantine | general who became emperor who moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium |
| Theodosius | emperor who divided the Roman Empire into 2 seperate Empires East and West Rome |
| Alaric | Visigoth leader who captured Rome |
| Odacer | Germanic general who overthrew the western Roman Empire |
| plague | disease that spreads widely |
| inflation | rapidly increasing prices |
| barter | exchange goods without using money |
| reform | political changes to make things better |
| Black Sea | helped boost trade in the north for Constantinople |
| Aegean Sea | helped boost trade in the south for Constantinople |
| Justinian | emperor of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527 |
| Theodora | Justinian's wife who helped run the empire, she was a former actress |
| Belisarius | general who lead the Byzantine army |
| Tribonian | a legal scholar who wrote the law reform code |
| mosaic | pictures made from many bits of colored glass or stone |
| saint | Christian holy people |
| regent | person who stands in for a ruler who is too young or too ill to govern |
