Early Rome and Christianity

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Across
  1. 1. A successful military leader who added all of Gaul to the republic. He also gave citizenship to the people in the provinces and gave public land to veterans. He was murdered on the Ides of March-March 15.
  2. 3. He was a Jewish apostle who helped to make Christianity a broader religion. He also helped establish Christian churches throughout the eastern Mediterranean. His Epistles became apart oh the New Testament. Without his work, Christianity would not have remained a branch of Judaism.
  3. 6. He persuaded Attila to leave Italy.
  4. 7. A general who became consul in 88 BC. He later became dictator in the civil war that followed.
  5. 9. He observed and wrote about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
  6. 12. He was the high priest who took power with Octavian and Antony after Caesar's death.
  7. 14. A talented military leader who was elected consul.
  8. 17. He was given the honorific title "the revered one." He was given the right to wear a crown of laurel and oak leaves.9
  9. 18. He was a physician who lived in Rome during the AD 100s. He wrote several volumes that summarized all the medicinal knowledge of his day.
  10. 19. He synthesized the knowledge of others in a single theory in astronomy-the earth was the center of the universe.
Down
  1. 1. He was a spiritual leader. He taught that people needed to seek forgiveness for their sins to prepare for Judgment Day.
  2. 2. He was the leader of the Huns and led an attack on Gaul.
  3. 4. Noted the treatment of soldier-farmers, who were being reduced to poverty.
  4. 5. She was Antony's ally at the naval battle of Actium in 31 BC.
  5. 8. Many believe that he founded the Roman Church and acted as its first bishop.
  6. 10. He was Trajan's successor and withdrew from most of the eastern additions. He also built defensive fortifications along the frontiers to guard against invasions.
  7. 11. He took power in 284. he also changes the empire into an absolute monarchy. He placed himself a higher position and ruled with no accountability to anyone.
  8. 13. He wrote the Aeneid. He also tried to imitate Homer by creating a national epic.
  9. 15. He was a loyal officer who took power with Octavian and Lepidus.
  10. 16. He was Caesar's adopted son and created a new political order. He also called himself princeps or "first citizen." His government was known as Principate.