-Ancient Rome Vocab-

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Across
  1. 1. A Jew from Asia Minor that began the wider spread of new faith and Christianity
  2. 6. The farmers, merchants, and artisans
  3. 9. The capital at Byzantium located near the Black Sea
  4. 10. Form of government which people choose their officials
  5. 13. Plebeian official that protected their interests
  6. 14. The 12 recruited disciples of Jesus
  7. 17. Pictures made from chips of colored stone
  8. 20. The author of the epic poem “the Aeneid”
  9. 21. To make fun of
  10. 22. General and Emperor that set a new capital in Byzantium
  11. 24. Block
  12. 26. Emperor that divided the Empire and fixed inflation by fixing prices of goods and services
  13. 28. An astronomer-mathematician
Down
  1. 2. Huge farming estates
  2. 3. A plebeian brother that was one of the first to attempted to reform
  3. 4. Patricians that supervised the business of government and commanded the armies
  4. 5. Caesar An ambitious military commander that conquered Gaul
  5. 7. Emperor that codified Roman Law and had soldiers build a wall to hold back attackers
  6. 8. Father of the church
  7. 11. Establishing control over foreign lands and people
  8. 12. Foreign soldiers serving for pay
  9. 15. Lived mostly north of Rome and origins are unknown
  10. 16. Members of the landowning upper class
  11. 18. Bride-like stone structures that carried water from the hills to Roman cities
  12. 19. Basic military unit
  13. 23. Octavian’s given title, Exalted one
  14. 25. Ruler who has complete control over a government
  15. 27. Beliefs said to be contrary to official church teachings