| A | B |
|---|
| senate | ruling body of the Roman Republic |
| Laws of the Twelve Tables | written Roman laws |
| Punic Wars | Rome vs. Carthage |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general |
| Gracchus Brothers | attempted to reform Rome / assasinated |
| Julius Caesar | last emperor of the Republic |
| Augustus | first emperor of the Roman Empire |
| Hadrian | Emperor who codified Roman law / made it the same for all provinces |
| Pax Romana | 200 years of relative peace |
| Circus Maximus | events here helped to pacify the discontented mobs |
| Greco-Roman | "Greece has conquered her rude conqueror." |
| Pantheon | Domed temple to the Roman gods |
| Pliny | Gathered the works of science |
| Virgil | wrote the Aeneid |
| Livy | wrote patriotic history |
| civil law | laws that apply to citizens |
| law of nations | laws that apply to the conquered peoples |
| Gospels | the accounts of Jesus' life and teachings |
| Apostle | followers of Jesus |
| Paul | spread Christianity to the gentiles around the Mediterranean |
| New Testament | 27 books of the Bible / teachings of Christ |
| Edict of Milan | issued by Constantine in 313 AD / tolerant of Christianity |
| Diocletian | Divided Roman empire into 2 parts |
| Constantine | built a new capital for the empire on the Bosporus |
| Huns | nomadic people from central Asia |
| Visigoths | Germanic tribe / entered Rome fleeing from the Huns |
| Alaric | Visigoth who plundered Rome in 410 AD |
| Attila | Hun leader who plundered across Europe |
| Odoacer | Germanic leader who took over Rome in 476 AD |
