| A | B |
|---|
| Cicero | a philosopher an gifted orator |
| Julius Caesar | the most powerful General |
| Pompey | most influential men |
| Augustus | Caesar's adopted son Octavian later called Augustus |
| currency | money |
| Pax Romana | Roman Peace |
| aqueduct | a human-made raise channel that carries water from distant places |
| Romance languages | languages that developed from Latin such is Italian,French,Spanish,Portuguese,and Romanian |
| civil law | a legal system based on written code of laws |
| Christianity | a religion based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth that developed in Judea at the beginning of the first century AD |
| Jesus of Nazareth | born around the end of the first century BC |
| Bible | the holy book of Christianity |
| crucifixcion | a type of execution in which a person was nailed to a cross |
| Resurrection | in Christianity,Jesus's rise from the dead |
| disciples | or followers of Jesus |
| Paul | Paul of Tarsus traveled throughout the Roman world |
| Constantine | emperor became a Christian |
| Diocletian | became emperor in the late 200s |
| Attila | fearsome leader raided Roman territory in the east. |
| corruption | the decay of people's values |
| Justinian | an emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 reunited the old Roman Empire |
| Theodora | a powerful wife convinced him to stay and fight |
| Byzantine | a society that developed in the Eastern Roman Empire |
| Messiah | "God's anointed one"in Hebrew |
