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