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one title of Octavian
"first citizen" |
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one title of Octavian
heir of distinguished Roman family |
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one title of Octavian
"emperor"
commander-in-chief of Rome's legions |
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one title of Octavian
"supreme pontiff"
head of Roman priests |
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| Jesus's birth (in Belehem Judaea) |
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| most significant event in Octavian's reign |
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| 200 years of peace and prosperity |
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| dates of the time of peace for Rome |
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| series of rulers who succeeded Octavian |
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| ruled Rome during Jesus's earthly ministry, death, resurrection, and ascention |
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| Roman emperor who was insane and was murdered by own bodyguards |
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| ruled during time in which Britain was made a Roman province |
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| began 1st great outbreak of persecution against New Testament church |
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| Bespasian, Titus, and Domitian |
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| called the Flavian emperors |
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| when Roman ruler Titus captured Jerusalem |
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| volcano that became suddenly active and destroyed 3 cities |
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| Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius |
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| Group of consecutive good emperors |
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| stone fortification built to protect the Roman Empire's northern frontier |
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| written by Stoic philosopher and emperor Marcus |
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| rival generals placed on Rome's throne by warring armies |
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Roman ruler who instituted various reforms to keep Rome from crumbling
became emperor ("Augustus") of Eastern Rome |
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| emperor ("Augustus") of Western Rome |
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| supposedly saw a vision of the cross with the inscription "In Hoc Signo, Vinces" |
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established in AD 313
proclaimed equal rights for all religions |
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| called Christian leaders to create institutional unity in the Church |
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aka Constantinople
center of Eastern Roman Empire |
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| when empire was permanently divided by Theodosius I |
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| invaded Italy under Alaric |
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| site of one of the worst Roman defeats |
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| Vandals, Angles, Saxons, Jutes |
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| groups that invaded parts of the Roman Empire |
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| barbarian invaders led by Attila |
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| when Roman citizen Odacer dethroned the Roman emperor |
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| Latin language, Roman law, republican government |
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| Rome's greatest contributions to civilization |
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| vernacular (vulgar) Latin |
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| everyday speech of Romans |
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| stemmed from everyday speech of Romans |
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| understood language of European scholars and churchmen |
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| Golden Age of Latin Literature |
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106 BC-AD 14
when Roman writers produced best works |
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| wrote On the Commonwealth |
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greatest poet of the Golden Age
wrote the epic poem Aeneid |
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| wrote Metamorphoses, which transmitted classical Greco-Roman mythology to modern world |
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| Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives |
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principle of Roman Law
notion that all law derives from single central source |
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principle of Roman Law
belief that all men share common human nature |
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principle of Roman Law
principle that laws should be sufficiently flexible to fit large number of particular cases |
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| enshrined Roman law's principles and clarified millennium of Roman legal developments |
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| Jesus's life, death, and resurrection |
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focal point of all world history
happened during rule of Rome |
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