Roman Empire 4-6
Across
- 1. money
- 5. Frankish king who built a huge kingdom in Gaul.
- 7. the areas outside of Italy that the Romans controlled
- 13. an author who wrote a great epic about the founding of Rome, the Aeneid
- 14. a poet who wrote about Roman mythology.
- 15. considered the most evil of all the emperors.
- 16. emperor made Christianity the official religion of Rome in 312 A.D. following the battle Milvian Bridge.
- 18. a raised channel used to carry water from mountains into cities.
Down
- 2. decay in people’s values.
- 3. last emperor of Western Roman before its end in 476 A.D.
- 4. fearsome Hun leader who attacked Rome’s eastern empire.
- 6. the emperor under whom the Romans conquered most of the island of Britain
- 8. _____________languages the languages that developed from Latin, including Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian
- 9. a legal system based on a written code of laws.
- 10. country homes belonging to rich Romans.
- 11. Greek doctor who lived in the Roman Empire in the AD 100s.
- 12. emperor who divided the Roman Empire into two parts.
- 17. style of writing that pokes fun at people or society.