| A | B |
|---|
| The Romans borrowed ideas in art and architecture from the | Greeks |
| A famous Roman historian | Livy |
| This event marked the end of the Western Roman Empire | Odoacer overthrowing the western emperor, Romulus Agustulus |
| The capital ofthe Byzantine Empire | Constantinople |
| Reasons for the decline of Rome | corrupt and dishonest leaders; inflation;weak military;famine; |
| Roman were the first people to invent and use | concrete |
| The Roman writer Virgil is famous for his | epic poem "The Aeneid" |
| The first emperor of Rome | Augustus |
| The Byzantine civilization was formed by | a blend of several cultures |
| Hagia Sophia | the religious center of the Byzantine Empire |
| What contributed to the Pax Romana? | a large, strong army; good food supply; improving the government |
| Roman statues were made to look | realistic |
| Pax Romana | 200 years of Roman peace |
| When the Roman government put less gold in its coins | people began to barter |
| She helped women gain more rights | Empress Theodora |
| Silk weaving | a major Byzantine industry |
| Most Byzantine women were | homemakers |
| In the Eastern rthodox church, icons | were forbidden |
| Horace the poet | wrote satires; used Greek writings; expressed strong emotions |
| Ptolemy | a scientist who studied the stars and planets |
| Because the Severans ignored economic problems and law and order broke down | the government of Rome was in chaos |
| Diocletian | introduced reforms and divided the empire into 4 parts |
| Justinian | reformed the law code; reunited the Roman Empire |
| Who controlled the church in the Byzantine empire? | the emperor |
| He moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople | Constantine |
| Became the official religion of Rome | Christianity |
| Became the basis of many European languages | Latin |
| Byzantine Empire included | Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Arabs, Jews, |
| An arena that could hold 60,000 people | Colosseum |
| pictures made of small pieces of colored glass or stone | mosaics |
| a person who stands in for a young or sick ruler | regent |
| a temple built to honor Rome's gods | Pantheon |
| a curved ceiling made by building arches against one another | vault |
| rapidly increasing prices caused by a decline in the value of money | inflation |
| thrived and became the Byzantine Empire | Eastern Roman empire |
| Roman engineers built a system of | roads and bridges |
| Constantinople's became prosperous because | it was located between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea; it was built on a peninsula making it easy to defend; trade routes between Europe and Asia passed through it |
